skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've asked two separate questions.

> What will it take to get more people using Mastodon more?

Simply wait for Elon Musk to do something stupid: https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount

> I am curious what would it take for people with large followings to move over and use Mastodon more

I think that's a slightly different question, but possibly only a matter of degree; if Twitter stays in its current semi-broken state for long, some really big accounts are going to _have_ to look elsewhere, whether they want to or not. Mastodon is probably the most viable current alternative (the invite-only stuff is probably not much use if one happens to be Taylor Swift), though Facebook's Twitter-y thing may become that, depending on how much Facebook screw it up (never bet against Facebook in a screwing-things-up competition). Facebook's Twitter-y thing will apparently be ActivityPub-compatible, though, so... problem solved, kinda?

Of course, the other thing to consider is… is this desirable? Do mastodon users want mastodon to be another twitter, only less vulnerable to being bought by a weird billionaire? I’m sure some do, but I’m not sure it’d be a majority view.
Destatis claims the reason is that demand was measurably lower than 2022: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2023/06...
> Today fiber is the network tech. Except for the last mile, everything is fiber.

(G)PON, (gigabit) passive optical network, seems to be what everyone is moving to:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_optical_network

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPON

Even for wireless (LTE/4G, 5G), GPON seems to be used for backhaul:

* https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8650520

* https://www.lightwaveonline.com/5g-mobile/article/14188094/t...

IEEE 802.3ca-2020 allows for 25 GigE per lambda, being able to combine two for 50 GigE; I'm sure there's an ITU equivalent (or will be soon).

* https://www.itu.int/hub/2021/06/new-itu-standards-to-boost-f...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Speed_PON

The main 'semi-hold out' are cablecos, where they are pushing fibre closer and closer to the premises, but generally haven't yet decided to replace co-ax in people's homes yet:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS
Are you seriously shaming a non-native speaker for their English right now? smh…
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I will become a product manager and hire AIs to build the apps I want to build.
Sounds like this is how my life will be like for a couple years if I get accepted :p
By bringing back coal, they killed thousands more of their own people people than if they stayed with nuclear.

Reminds me of my gf who picked cigarettes back up to help her quit vaping.
It's amazing to see these old videos. The roads were busy than I expected, I thought cars were incredibly expensive back then? (not that they aren't now).

In 60 years time when we're all driving hover cars like the Jetsons imagine how much footage they'll have of us. Dashcams everywhere
Get young people to use it.
> As I understand it, most UK public are in favour of this bill

Do you understand this from polling? Can't trust UK media outlets on public opinion, they push, they don't pull. If the public doesn't agree with them, they all will run variations of the same story, aimed at the same targets, for years until they do.
My litmus test is "was it asked to be put there". I live in Denver and after we won the NBA finals a local artist put this up this[1] mural and it was coordinated with the business + building owner + local govt. I would call that a "mural" versus "graffiti". Now if you go out to our "warehouse district" you will often see "graffiti", that is stuff the owners never asked for, some kids just showed up and tagged the building in the middle of the night.

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If that would actually happen (not change our jobs but replace all developers) I think a lot of other jobs would also be replaced. So don't see a point in trying to plan for that very unpredictable future. Better to pivot at that point instead to what seems to be the best option at that time.
The guide is just an overview to help potential customers ("users") decide if the Ariane 5 would work for their payload and mission. Nothing to do with Arianespace operating the rocket.
I was on KDE for a bit, love it on my ultrawide monitor with tiling. But on my laptop Gnome is so sweat. I have a 2nd hand HP ProBook and I swear, for the very first time ever in my Linux life the trackpad feels like my MacBook trackpad. 3 fingers swipe up, overview of windows, another swipe is app grid, swipe left right, move to other desktops. I really find the whole experience very smooth and I enjoy it a lot (all Wayland, on NixOS).

I have suspend/wake working well so far, USB-C charging + screen + all peripherals via 1 USB-C cable, all "media" buttons work. And this is still on 8 GB of ram (soon the 2x32 GB will arrive ;)), I haven't even heard the fans so far! I'm on Teams, camera works, nobody would even know I'm on Linux if it wasn't for my constant evangelizing!

I'm really impressed (yeah, I know, Linux people easily are when it comes to desktops, basically we're impressed if things work).

I did enable AppIndicator. Solaar, NextCloud and Tailscale all really require it to be considered functional. I don't understand why that is not a standard thing (it is on many distros though).
Someone filmed that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G42xq7TnCt4
Agreed, those were the roots. But this thread is a bit about tooling/distribution on win vs linux and the C64 and Amiga is more like Windows than Linux in that sense. If prods would've been open-sourced or compile for yourself you'd lose control of packaging and stuff like track-ordering for disk-loading would've been impossible to control properly.
> You can't tell by the function call itelf.

You can't know that in general. Any regular Go function could spawn a goroutine return immediately too. In JS a "blocking" function could call setImmediate(…) and return too. Even in C, a function could spawn a thread and return immediately too.

You never know at the call site whether a function will block or not, in any language.

So I think polled futures actually are closest to knowing this, since the block-or-not decision can be bubbled up to the caller. In Rust the "doesn't block" example would more likely be `runtime.spawn(foo())`, since the executor is not built into the language, so spawning asynchronously is easier when left up to the caller.
Demystifying NixOS: The Basic Flake (1/4)
(This is the post of a friend of mine. Yes, I just created an account to share this. I usually just lurk, but I believe this is worth sharing.)
NixOS can often feel overwhelming, especially for newcomers to the operating system.
In this opinionated series, my aim is to provide a structured path that takes you from a simple NixOS configuration to a more complex one, while explaining the underlying concepts along the way.
> inefficient public transpor

What do you mean inefficient?

Multiple things can be done at the same time on the country scale. Improve bike infrastructure and public transit, encourage EVs for those that have to drive, decarbonise energy generation, electrify heating and industry, etc.
This is directed primarily to politicians about to vote on the bill.
Can you suggest some cool typography examples?
Also, if you could explain a bit about what's wrong with the typography, I'd appreciate it.
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I blog mostly about Python web developed, especially Flask, Quart and Hypercorn related aspects.
I've seen the power of moving systems to more machine readable file formats such as Parquet, Arrow as opposed to storing them as csv, json etc. For people who are actually making these design choices in my experience it has always been a better idea to prefer smarter formats over readable ones for large scale systems. They really help in longer term for :

- cost (more maintainable from the tech overhead required).

- storage (lower size)

- compute (faster reads and indexing)
https://blog.dannycastonguay.com/

When I find myself repeating the same topic, I write it down for future reference.

Writing is enjoyable, with the added anticipation that my children will read it someday (with mild embarrassment).
Wow, this is a nice project.
Don't worry, Australia is doubling down too. Our entire legislative board around tech and the internet at the moment is chock full of draconian shit like this.
surely lifetimes and the borrow checker are a better way to statically check for these sort of issues than relying on await side effects? What if an await is inadvertently introduced later inside your (implicit) critical section?
haha, wow svgalib is really ages ago :D
Unrealistic because it doesn't have enough inter-dept. politics and other phd/msc students in-fighting.
Any reason not to use Magento CE? If you get a good dev who knows it well it will pay for itself in features you cannot get elsewhere.
That this is a big pretend game to make the people responsible of the closing of nuclear power look not that bad in regard of the climate issue. Electricity generation should be increasing as we electrify transportation and heating. If this not what is happening then it means that globally the problem is just displaced. (Which doesn’t work at the planet scale)
People go to where they might be able to build an audience.
This works exceptionally well on a centralised systems like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, Soundcloud etc.

Mastodon has federation, and at this point just me saying those two words, have already went above the normal users head. They do not care about peer to peer, choosing servers, and whatever federation means. They care about Reach, Friends are there, and ease of use. Period.

Users care about how easy is it for me to use, does it get me the audience reach I need, and how easy is it for me to moderate my audience.

Companies, & freelancers need to know that they get the reach they need to build their businesses.
Politicians, agencies and government agencies need to know that hey can reach out with their messaging. I mean Twitter is a tool for international diplomacy and disaster warnings in times of crisis.

Twitter can do that because they hav 500 million users.
Facebook can do that because they have a billion users.
WhatsApp has almost 3 billion users.

Mastodon official has 8 millon.
https://mastodon-analytics.com/
Total fediverse number of users is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lol I dunno.

THe way to "sell" Mastodon to power users and super influencers is that you tell them they can run their own instance and have greater control than what they have through twitter on moderation and who can interact, that makes it interesting to start running it as a side project.
Define easily
Statistical analysis and evidence of fraudulent practice is a conspiracy theory? Uh, okay....
I was thinking this might be the case just based on the conclusion. But it doesn't seem to be retracted, and I can't find any evidence of a scandal.
>> IP address is just a number

> No it's not. It's some more specific definition of a number

So... it's not just a number, it's a number?

(Four octets put together form a single 32-bit number)
The 57.7% figure seems to be a bit misleading in this context. I searched for statistical data on how much idle coal power is held on standby and not included in these statistics, for example, but I didn't find any. Does anyone know where to get full raw data?
The G20 should forge a pact to support nations’ shifts to a low-carbon future
Australia is half-fucked already, and will be completely fucked when the current opposition get back into Government (they're the ones who initiated the half-fucked status when they were in government, unfortunately with no resistance from the opposition at the time).

Raid warrants are already being signed off based on the tiny window into an IP address' life provided by legislated metadata retention. And no further actual police work is done on backgrounding the persons or households involved before choosing to suspend their rights.
Neither Racket, nor any Scheme implementation calls (define define) a syntax error in general. It is only an error when define is defined to define, as it is in the base environment. If you have an environment where define does not define, (define define) may work.

Welcome to Racket v8.9 [bc].

> (define (define x) (display "Look ma, no error!\n"))

> (define define)

Look ma, no error!
Until it doesn't.
If you need accessibility support it won't work well. If you need multi-head 4k setup with fractional scaling it won't work well.
> But it doesn't stop being North, which is a fairly well defined concept.

Can you cite the definition please?

My understanding, from 40 years of geodesy and cartography, was that it was a fairly recent (post 16th Century) convention and many many significant older maps orientate in quite different ways.

eg:

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/maps-cartograph...
> If I were Musk and had that chain up in the sky,

If you were Musk, and if Musk were some sort of superhero fighter for communications freedom. If Musk wants private communication for himself and his friends, I'm sure he can manage it.
> Mom lesson? She taught me that spiritual, disciplined people get to see more rainbows and miracles than others.

That's an interesting comment - so much wrapped up in that. I wish it had had more context rather than added somewhat chockablock to the end of the article.
Tell HN: Tweets can be viewed again without logging in
Individual Twitter posts became accessible in the past few hours.

Replies aren’t visible, and you can’t access profiles or search without logging in.

I’m honestly quite surprised, but maybe their traffic plummeted by a huge amount and affected ad revenues.
Unable to avoid “Firefox Suggest” in address bar
I have latest Firefox 114.0.2 (64-bit) installed, and even Provide search suggestions" turned off (especially the "Show search suggestions in address bar results") I clearly get suggestion in the address bar while typing.

I really do not like it!

the main reason I do is that I think that (correct me if I'm wrong) having Firefox suggesting means Firefox get what I type in the address bar (!)
> If the Typescript team got carte blanche to create their own language, it would likely be... C#.

This is sarcasm, right? The creator of TS is the lead architect of C#
https://hvalls.dev Made with NextJS + Tailwind + Markdown files for the posts
It is at the same time "knowing your instrument quite well" and "be able to produce quality [at structural level]" and "be able to produce quality [at final output level]".
My money would actually be on sexual intercourse having happened on Mir, if it happened in space at all. Smaller crew size, and being under the supervision of the slowly failing Soviet Union followed by early Russia surely made it much easier to ignore certain orders than it is on the ISS.

But if it ever happened it hasn't been made public. Not that that's saying much.
So beautiful images
It's coming: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/309

But not for a while, as doing it the way the project wants to do it (requiring consent) will require ActivityPub extensions AIUI.

Meanwhile, the community is reinventing it in various ways (this is also where quote-retweets came from on Twitter, btw; they didn't become a native feature for a long time)
Do you know where I can find a succinct and good explanation of p-hacking?

Last time I looked into it, I couldn't understand why it was seen as a problem.
Good job taking things out of context and completely missing the point!
We use Copilot (chat) at work. IMO we are nowhere near the point of being concerned about this.
> Living in Germany is leaving any big city and seeing loads of wind turbines everywhere.
I know very little of its economics, like that it typically takes 7 years to pay it back and lasts 20-25 years, but looks like a good way to generate renewable energy and will likely soon take Germany to 100%.

At the same time, no animals are living in and near wind farms. Plants that require pollination don't grow because no bees can live in or near wind farms. Building wind farms, also means less space to grow crops, so there will be a food problem. Wind turbines aren't producing energy when the wind doesn't blow.

Nuclear plants would have been a much better solution to the problem.
That'd mean the military also switched to AI to write software. I'd become a doomsayer and prepper. I'd mean sell ebooks and online courses on prepping of course.
To support our next-gen machine learning system, we need a 10 exabyte storage array. It should host a system accessible over TCP/IP or Infiniband that can stream random-access 1MB blocks of data to 65,536 different computers, at continuous loads of 64 GB/second each computer, using a protocol of your choice or design. Correct for all data corruption and do not lose a single bit during the next 1,000 years of operation.

Yes, we can add more specs but these alone should be pretty daunting.
Labour are not “The Conservative Party” but they are definitely (at the moment) pretty solidly a conservative party.
I am using the split version with the separate small search box off to the right. That works better for me.
> After management with the Cross Bracing
Protocol (CBP), 72 out of 80 (90%) participants
with complete discontinuity of the ACL at baseline had signs of ACL healing (ACL
continuity) on 3-month MRI.

Seems pretty definitive as healing to me.
I will use them, at least for a while, when their currently in development Rust desktop env is out. Super curious how that pans out (as traditionally all popular GUI libs are very OO).

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch

https://github.com/pop-os/libcosmic

https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
Eyewitnesses wrote that Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, and later rose from the dead himself. If this really happened it makes sense why none of the apostles were afraid to die for what they were certain was true.
> not caring that renewables are decades away

Pffft...

If the government wuold decide to buy balcony solar systems for 1.000 Euro each for every household, that would come down to a mere 41 billion Euro for the whole state and that would solve lots of all of this.

They found 100 billion for the Bundeswehr without any problem in the blink of an eye. If you really wanted, the whole energy topic would be set up and solved in a month, from there on it's steady execution.
Is this a defense of tweeting "fuck you" at a customer based in the company not having said "don't tweet 'fuck you' at customers"? Is there some ambiguity at play here, like in some cases employees are encouraged to tweet fuck you at customers? I'm puzzled
The reason does not really matter for the math. The record is due to lower production and not a rapid build-up of renewable energy production.
I don't think Dart is meaningfully better than JS (for some vague definition of better)
For me, it was Second Reality from FutureCrew. Highly recommend it. Great soundtrack, awesome scenes for the time.
Can you share one problems defined set of requirements that fit on a single page?
Focusing solely on getting rich to the detriment of other people is the antithesis of "societal planning". I'm not sure why you're defending this behavior. Do you really believe that people who strive for profit over the well-being of other people are in any way being "social"? Do you see them as the necessary negative force for positive action to be possible? Do you really believe that humans require adversity to succeed, and that those who choose to be adverse agents are engaging in some self-sacrificial martyrdom so society can benefit from their negative influence?

Please, I want to know; what benefits do the actions of the op have for "societal planning"? The person he was replying to was at least honest in admitting that this behavior "served little social good".

Once again, I think you'd do well to actually read what fascism actually stood for. The propaganda of fascism had a lot more to say about nationalism, "shared history" and the good of corporations than it did to say about things being "anti-social" or even mentioning "selfish greed".
https://whir.tech/
It's a bit silly but I'm enjoying it so far.
Not that it's my merit :)
I personally don’t believe it, but as the title says: what if? I realized yesterday I’m not sure I truly have a viable plan whether it happens in 5, 10, or even more years.
Yes I'd like the details on this. My experience has been the opposite of you prompt it correctly, or it has the algorithm or data structure trained in its model already.
Cars were already mass-produced 60 years ago and, compared to contemporary cars, rather simple. (No electronics, no airbags etc.) So they couldn't have been that expensive.

Also, parking was mostly free, no congestion duties when driving into London... IDK if there were taxes on gasoline and how high.
This reminds me of this article about using command line tools vs hadoop:

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
If you went with the heavier-weight use of Asterisk, you could have softphones authenticated to Asterisk, but, no inbound calls from the softphones would be accepted. Only if 1 user sought to call another would Asterisk "dial" each softphone; which might be sufficient in terms of security (you would have to have a working SSH account to be called).
Fwiw I loved the adinpsz demos, sad to hear you left on such a sour note.