skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice of you to self-quote, I'd never read that old blog post.

I do find this sentence quite unkind towards Dave Matthews though: "Milan Kundera is the Dave Matthews of Slavic letters, a talented hack, certainly a hack who's paid his dues, but a hack nonetheless". If a hack is talented and "pays his dues", he stops being a hack, surely? What does it take to be an accomplished artist then, apart from being David Bowie?
Just to contrive a counterexample, what about a collision from a higher eccentricity object near its perigee? That could be adding a lot of energy I think, no?
In this case the “grievance“ being inability to operate a fundamentally exploitative and degenerate enterprise. Upon being redressed on such matters the proper response from a politician would be, gfy. Not, “well, just how much money do you plan to give me?“
Way too early for that victory lap. It takes 6-12 months for interest rate rises to hit the economy apparently. There is a long way to run yet before anyone knows if it was the right strategy.

I also think avoiding the gyrations in the first place might have been a better outcome.
I read it, and I feel now like I feel after watching a TED Talk. Which is to say, like I've just wasted a little chunk of my life.

Most of the time, your "real problem" cannot be directly solved, which is why you have another big problem to worry about. The engineer in the story is not getting his ideas accepted. If he was the CTO, his ideas would be accepted. Therefore, he can solve the real problem of seniority by becoming the CTO! How does he do that (eventually)? Maybe by proving he has great ideas, and he does that by implementing some of those ideas.

Oops, we made a circle.

So the real question is, how can we solve today's big problem without solving the "real problem"? Going ahead and implementing the guy's idea without permission is actually not a terrible way for him to get noticed, if it's a very good idea (which the exercise will also provide some insight on too).
@jonathan-adly do you use ivfflat with pgvector?
He literally tweeted that he’s maybe not medically bipolar. Don’t take daily mail headlines at face value
There are only keynesians here.
How were they ultimately resolved? It seems like they created a hyperlocal currency (or time bank[1]) but then ran into market problems of supply and demand, and a bunch of people analyzed it and proposed solutions, but it was unclear what ultimately happened.

Plus, at a measly 20 families right now, all in DC, it's unclear whether this model would work for bigger or more heterogenous groups. Probably at a smaller scale, the expectation of reciprocity alone would be enough; at larger scales, "financiers" would probably try to game the system and skew exchange rates. In my (limited) experience, this sort of thing only works when a group is both small enough and homogenous enough that the primary driver is community and mutual respect, not any real sort of economic game theory. At that scale members don't tend to hyper-optimize for individual "wealth" over collective gain (yet).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_currency
If you publish on a website, discussion about what you posted happens in a fragmented way across the various social sites (like we're doing here). If you publish on a social site you're saying "let's talk about this here". Conversations about what you posted might spring up elsewhere, but they become secondary. That's desirable if you want to have a moment when you're done addressing all of the comments.
No strong reason, but Mastodon allows various goverment officials and agencies to create accounts on the same server and probably has more functionality baked in than most self-hosted alternatives. It's got a better interface than a CMS and even allows those government officials to follow and interact with other accounts in an official capacity.

Personally it feels ready-made for government presence on the web.
New Void Linux Images (July 2023 Edition)
Same, until they can handle random request spikes twitter/threads will still be necessary. Imagine if the US Govt made an official social media site, shudder...
The Mac version is 32-bit? That makes no sense in 2023?

Says "This will not work on your version of MacOS"
> Being able to participate more with money disproportionately benefits the rich.

Fully true. The public is relegated to - at best - a veto vote on corruption, which they rarely use (and are rarely informed as to why they should. Thanks press!).
> if you have any examples of a website that does preserve multiple spaces after periods

Mine does: https://daveon.design/about-dave-on-design.html#typography-&...
Meta/FB wants everyone on the planet to be on Threads (because profit). Mastodon doesn't need everyone to be on it, since it doesn't make money from/off users.

Mastodon isn't for everyone. And that's okay.
Why is the light mode so dim? I thought something was wrong at first, like there was a modal background covering the screen that I couldn't clear.
Recovery from out of space errors is difficult on any copy-on-write filesystem since you need to write more data to disk to actually delete anything. You'll find similar stories about ZFS if you care to look for them. btrfs has had some protection against out-of-space issues for some time now (look for "global reserve" in `btrfs filesystem usage`). I think ZFS has something similar, but I don't care enough to check since I'm very careful to never let it get that far.
Reimagining the Bioreactor
Does the UK grid support this kind of tech?

The core idea is really clever: distribute the baseload-leveling batteries in individual houses. It's probably less efficient than building industrial-scale ones (as with solar), but people see a personal benefit so they'll foot some of the cost.

But I imagine it requires a fair bit of technology to have power coming from individual houses, feeding back into the grid. I don't know much about power engineering, so I don't know how feasible this is. I know the tech works elsewhere, but I also imagine that the UK has a somewhat older power grid (since they were on the forefront of having it built in the first place).
I argued that there is a lot of censorship on Mastodon. You may be okay with this (presumably because the censorship doesn't affect your own political opinions) but that's a different point.
> Assuming that you're the same idlewords who wrote this [0] blog post in 2005

He is.

(Well, on the Internet anyone can be a cow, but bar shenanigans on this specific post, this cow and that cow are the same cow.)
I believe it's available here: https://github.com/neondatabase/pg_embedding/

It doesn't yet have a LICENSE file, so it's not strictly OS quite yet, but that might have been an oversight.
What is a Yentaverse? I googled it and nothing comes up.
> Calling bonds a bad gamble is questionable.

Protecting banks at all is not part of the Fed’s monetary policy mandate, so the “bag gambles” was surplus verbiage, ultimately.

Price stability and employment are; protecting banks from failure is a non-goal except insofar as it might instrumentally serve the actual dual mandate goals, and there are mechanisms in place to protect the economy from bank failure impacts, and if the people responsible for them (which include the Fed, but in a supporting rather than leading role, abd outside of monetary policy) are on the ball, the impact of such failures on the things that are in the monetary policy mandate are minimal.
This is such a wonderful quote.
Ironically, back in the 90s Anchor Steam was just about the only good craft beer I could get in Japan.
It's not one button, they had to download an app and then auth via instagram.

I don't see how it is different from any other service where you can sign in with google/facebook/etc.
Won’t miss Steam, but Anchor Porter is quite good.
> If the players have fun, that's all that really matters.

That wasn't your argument. If you wanted to argue that, you should have done so from the beginning.

Your argument was that it is more beneficial for players to pay many times the price of any game they play often.
Three past discussions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11854376 - June 7, 2016 (6 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13153846 - Dec 11, 2016 (24 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18012672 - Sept 18, 2018 (8 comments)
That’s one of the options.
What a terribly written article. Wasted so much time reading this trying to get to the point but the author just rambles on about how traumatic it was without explaining how specifically. You'd think the author was trying to fill up sone word quota, just get to the damn point.
https://github.com/neondatabase/pg_embedding
I don't agree with your version of reality. Many mass shooters say they were inspired by social media. I also was addressing the question about why this topic is relevant; you have a problem with something else.
Server threw a "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" and appears to be very slow at the moment.

For a government server, they sure didn't allocate much in terms of resources.
My favorite part about Mastodon is the general lack of self-promotion. Twitter/Instagram... are made of people perpetually preening professionally and socially. Mastodon is, for the most part, just people being weird and silly. Very refreshing.
Worthwhile to invest in I think is the bigger question - from a practical 'can we build a self replicating probe fleet that would eventually cover the galaxy', there's at least evidence that it's possible in the next hundred years or so.

http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/ComparisonReproNov1980.htm
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2005/2005.12303.pdf

In general I do think it makes sense to not just contemplate interstellar visitors as living things making the trek or biological civilizations expanding, but there's a wide variety of artificial ~things~ that could end up in our solar system for whatever reason.
>the taproom always had customers.

I know the owners of a local craft brewery. When they opened 7 years ago it was ONLY the taproom. Nowadays their money is almost entirely in distribution, taproom is only like 5% of their sales.
Are Consultants worth the money they charge?
The large corporations have large pools of money, talent and experience and yet they consult from newer consulting firms , why?
why can't they develop their own teams for such work?
I wasn't the best math student in school and there was a lot I didn't fully understand back then, but I eventually learned it all and more as I got older. I know I'm not the only one. It seems more like a function of time and effort than a "human hardware limit".
Tax sites are selling data because there is demand for that data, in this case from Meta (or Facebook/Instagram/Threads/WhatsApp etc).

This is not the first time they (Meta et all) were caught with their hands in the cookie jar and still, over 100 million people thought it's a good idea to give them even more access to their information.

It's sad and disheartening to realise, again and again, that the "regular" user couldn't care less. And based on the downvotes I received, neither do the hn users. Besides some imaginary internet points, more importantly, I'm loosing faith we will ever open our eyes and see the cancer that are these data stealing corporations. </rant>
It's not illegal to make publishing deals in any way. And Square isn't beholden to anyone in particular. They have made deals with Nintendo and even Microsoft for various games, promotional material, etc.

And that's not even getting into their game-adjacent deals (AMD, various cloud services) and the dozens of crossovers with the stragest companies (remember when Final Fantasy 13 released some Louis Vuitton fashion line?)
It’s interesting we hear a lot about how engineers need to understand ethics, but nobody says a peep about the field of marketing which focuses on psychological manipulation and deception.
> Maybe people consider that eventually they die and that everything is rented in a sense...

Nope. If you own something you can leave it to your kids.

If you rent it, you can't.
I think a lot of mastodon users left twitter as part of an existing community, and so the migration process was pretty straightforward; usually they had one community instance that is effectively Threads for them.

I think being bullish on Mastodon in particular is missing the point; a similar comment compared it to saying “Yahoo Mail will be the forever future of electronic messaging!” in the 90s. Of course not; email the protocol was the future, yet yahoo mail chugs along to this day. Likewise ActivityPub (which Threads intends to support) will probably be the future, not any one particular UI implementation in front of it.
From https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNF#Including_libsol...

> DNF is a fork of Yum 3.4 that uses libsolv via hawkey for a backend. The main goals of the project are:

> using a SAT solver for dependency resolving
allowing us to eventually use the same solver in rpm too
> ...
It's cold but... what strike doesn't work this way? This is the definition of a strike - you are holding out until the other party is suffering more losses than they can reasonably sustain compared to the costs of giving in; in order to obtain a favorable deal.

On that note... I'm not actually convinced "new content" is all that necessary, even though that is an intuitive assumption on my part.
Some people enjoy the internet of old, where you had to put some effort into finding venues for collaborating.
There is nothing wrong with some places prioritizing building communities over algorithmical reach of the larger platforms.
My thinking is: governments already have a website. So now you’re asking citizens to go to two different places to seek out information instead of one.

Or worse: now the government feels they need to post on: their own website, Twitter, threads, Facebook, mastodon, etc.
Good lord, no. "Excess value" is a frankly pants-on-head stupid notion that should have died in the 19th century. It assumes businesses should operate with not only zero profit but zero margin for expenses or growth. It is beyond stupid and I find it unbelievable that there are so many followers who really should know better on several level.
This is cool! A few questions:

- Given how neon architecture decouples compute with storage using the safekeepers & pageservers will this still just work with neon? (Wondering because you mention the index is in-memory so unless your stateless compute nodes can somehow hot-swap the indexes I wasn't sure how that'd work?)

- Do you plan to offer vector search as a plug-and-play offering? If so does neon as a product offering plan to introduce more "out-of-the-box" functionalities like vector search? (Similar to xata's offerings like search & vector search.)

- unrelated question- I believe neon has very small cold startups for free/scale-to-zero configurations but are there also inherent small latencies for infrequently accessed data? In other words is it safe to say if there were a large table with records that are "old"/"archival" but also always a sort of ~last 30-days of records that are "fresh"/"accessed with more frequency" would there more likely be slight latency introduced when accessing the older records?

Neon looks awesome and thanks for neons open source contributions!
I know, I've seen this claim (it's in the book too) but never any corroborating evidence.
This is like asking someone if they're bluffing. "Of course I'm not bluffing", he bluffs.

Hollywood execs would claim they'll hold out indefinitely, if they thought anyone would remotely believe their claim.
Why does it need to compete with tech giants for people to be enthusiastic about it?
Having an organic community is good for longevity if not massive short term adoption.
Some smaller sites have indeed blocked Threads. I fail to see the drama in that.

Some people seem intent on causing drama, but most actual server admins seem to just ignore Threads until it becomes a problem.
Mastodon is all public. If the only thing Meta wants is to ingest people’s posts, is there any reason to implement ActivityPub? They can get it all for free today.
The average person will read this sentence:

> Personal savings are half of what they used to be before COVID while personal debt has doubled.

And assume you're saying that the average person has half as much money in the bank as they did before COVID. Your data don't support that assertion--they show that people are still saving money, just at a slower rate. Wouldn't that imply that people have more money in the bank than pre-COVID?

Anyway, spending (rather than saving) money during a period of high inflation is textbook "rational consumer" behavior, and is hardly evidence of a horrible, terrible, no good, very bad economy.
I agree that gray area is optimal, but I don't think you can afford yourself that kind of charity while not providing it to someone else in the very same comment.

Do unto others how you want others to do unto you. If you want to judge strictly, you shouldn't ask to be judged with leniency.
bcachefs supports a lot of features that would be useful for even home user desktop systems.

For example, the filesystem supports snapshots. This would let you do something like have apt (in Ubuntu) create an automatic snapshot of the filesystem before running an upgrade, so that if the upgrade fails or causes problems you can roll it back trivially.

It also supports native compression, saving users tons of disk space. It supports combining multiple devices together for redundancy, and it can checksum all of your data so that you can know if a file was corrupted without it introducing transparent failures into your system. It supports copy-on-write, so that you can make instantaneous "copies" of files or directories which take no extra space unless you change them.

So yeah, there are a lot of functionalities that we can enable with newer filesystems. ext4 is pretty great all in all, but there are a lot of modern features that modern hardware and concepts enable.
Same feelings about it here. The font actually looks pretty nice, but I won't be using it because that website is utter garbage. I take no issue with the creator taking the time to code up a cute terminal-like interface, but there absolutely needs to be a link to a basic version of the site (and it needs to not require me to press a key to navigate to that link).
Too bad that's how half the arguments go here. People were more upset about the Zenimax aquisition than this one.
> They were using their monopoly power to drive down the overall price of packaged TV and by de-bundling, we end up paying more overall.

This is complicated. Piracy sold Comcast broadband Internet connections for many. Napster long predates Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal, when it became a content maker.

So even in the last two decades, looking at one company, it played some, or all, sides of the producer ecosystem, in complex ways, sometimes 200% changing (sticking a minus sign in front of) how it benefits from consumer trends. If you want to analyze any specific thing about cable TV pricing, you're going to need to write a whole dissertation about it. Meanwhile "whatever the consumer is willing to bear" will get you most of the way there.
This, from an airline that has declared bankruptcy twice in the past decade. The audacity of modern American corporations is best observed through airlines. United Airlines begged for (and received) stimulus during COVID after it blew literally all of its cash on stock buybacks in the year or two prior.
After I posted I remembered I knew that, yea that definitely helped! But some of the fault is on the banks as well for not managing interest rate risks well. As Matt Levine pointed out, they haven't had to worry for a decade! SVB's liabilities were also highly concentrated among large uninsured by FDIC accounts that all moved in tandem which didn't help anything.
What's the irrational part here? They're rationally betting on the writers caving because they got bills to pay.
I can't agree that it costs more. I'm a pretty profligate spender and just subscribe to everything even though I don't actually watch that much television. So right now, my household is subscribed to YouTube Premium, Peacock, Paramount+, Disney+, Max, Apple TV+, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Curiosity Stream. I'm honestly not even sure what it costs, but guessing somewhere in the arena of $10 a month or so on average, since some are more, some are less. That's $100. The last time I was subscribed to premium cable with at least HBO, Showtime, and ESPN, it was $180 a month. In 2011 dollars. That was also linear, not on-demand, so quite a bit worse service. We had to pay extra for a DVR that could record stuff and I don't even remember how much extra that was.
I think it is safe to assume its over the 2M mastodon users. But if they want to keep em, they need to roll out some features and I want to hear more about the roadmap to federation.
Mastodon is weird in a way I can't quite put my finger on. It doesn't feel clear how it works, what the limitations are, etc. My profile is on sdf.org but it's extremely slow. The recommendations don't seem to work. There is no algorithm to show me miscellaneous content.

I just don't "get it", what it is, what it's for, etc.

I had this feeling quite distinctly when I first used twitter too though
I didn't like it either. Felt like Catcher in the Rye meets the iron curtain. But admittedly I have probably below average tolerance for introspective books. If I want to introspect, I'll do it myself.

That being said, after the discussion here, I'll probably give it another go.
Online ad spending keeps increasing every year, so it can't be dying

https://www.insiderintelligence.com/topics/storage/02a371186...

It's just that google + fb are increasingly keeping bigger and bigger piece of the pie for themselves, which among others enriches their workers to the detrimment of content creators. Monopoly is to blame here, not a natural death
Compared to the meteoric rise of Threads, it's hard to argue that they didn't fumble the bag when the end-zone was wide open.

Once you get past the user-hostile joining and following process, ultimately Mastodon just has awful content discoverability since there's no algorithmic feed available, not even good reply displays. You're relying on your follows to retoot anything interesting, and one prolific poster can completely flood your feed.

It's just not good enough. I really tried to like it, but it just isn't.
Threads can't even calculate active users yet. They launched a week ago.

Sign ups != active users.
The pandemic has triggered / accelarated a lot of trends

One trend I wonder about is cutting back on drinking. From a health perspective, I see more and more health officials loudly saying no healthy amount of alcohol[1]. It's simply poison.

Not that I'm aggressively for any kind of prohibition, and don't very rarely drink, but I wonder if we'll see increased awareness and more people just deciding not to drink as much anymore.

With this awareness, and the "modest amount of alcohol are actually healthy" claims debunked[2], maybe the hipster / wealthy / yuppy crowd will turn more and more away from the many many microbreweries / wineries that have cropped up in the last few decades.

1 - https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...

Huberman has a great episode too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS1pkKpILY

2 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/03/31/moderate-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsIdaQhDjwo
Not exactly. You are probably referring to the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA). It protects US persons against employment and medical insurance discrimination based on genetics but doesn't apply to other types of insurance such as life insurance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...
You probably could.