skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can ask citizens to go to your website to stay informed, but they will turn around and complain that nobody told them about X,Y,Z because they're not naturally going to the website on a regular basis unless they have an immediate need. Elected officials will turn on you and blame you for not meeting the citizens where they already are.
Can you say more about the use case?
There is also RSS. https://www.government.nl/rss

Effective outreach means being everywhere people are. It has to be “all of the above” because no one method of distribution captures everybody
At this point, I would not be shocked if Hollywood studios try to hire writers in Canada and other english speaking countries that are clearly not going to be participating in these strikes, to get some new content moving.

Given time horizons, seems like one of the inevitable long term options for them, is diversify writer rooms across countries with similar cultures to intended audiences
Is it the whole country or only some individuals of concern? I haven't really followed the news on sanctions, but I thought it was the latter.
Probably no relevance to the topic at hand. This research applies only to the documented SNP.

Unrelated, you may have some increased risk for prostate cancer: https://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs1983891
I had no idea what it is but kinda ruined the mood for me when the game reset
> if you have 4 KB-sector disks then you should probably use a physical block size granularity of 4 KB for your ZFS pool rather than 512 bytes

According to Allan Jude (OpenZFS & FreeBSD developer), you should never use 512-byte recordsize even on an HDD with 512-byte sectors. Always start from 4 KiBs, probably even from 8.

https://klarasystems.com/articles/tuning-recordsize-in-openz...
the US may soon get its first new source of nuclear fuel in 70 years
What an incredibly disgusting thing to say.

> One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”

What makes this necessary? What, except for the profits of the owners?

People like this should not be allowed to participate in modern society. They are taking everyone around them down to raise themselves a few millimeters.
This was my thought. I'm not sure government officials themselves would be able to handle using Mastodon in the same way they do twitter/etc.
Totally legit comparison
Right now this is just based on probabilities. There needs to be more investigation to say for sure I think.

For example slow COMT people are more likely to be depressed or have some other mental symptoms. And that's because the COMT gene is responsible for producing an enzyme actually breaks down specific hormones so that some thoughts don't linger.

We need to do that work next - what is the probable mechanism - before we should say - this gene causes this.
This is why I'm hopeful that Threads will federate with Mastodon instances. It just makes sense to have companies and governments and other institutions run their own private mastodon instances, and us vast unwashed people who just want a free place to read the news and shitpost to follow on a site like Threads where advertising dollars cover the costs of servers and moderation. There's no reason that eg the BBC should be posting on somebody else's infrastructure, but it's obviously of benefit to both the BBC and Threads to have Threads users to be able to follow and boost posts from BBC's staff.
> It's anecdotal, but I think Mastodon missed the boat, in large part because of the pretty terrible sign up experience.

The Fediverse missed the boat of becoming the next public square because it was never sailing that route to begin with, if you'll pardon the slightly twisted metaphor.

ActivityPub, and by extension Mastodon, are not community spaces; they are tools for building community spaces. There are at least three major spaces currently: the heavily-moderated, mostly lefty area, the barely-moderated, heavily alt-right area, and the area dominated by Pawoo and defined primarily by Japan's legal jurisdiction regarding image media. There are some interfaces between these broad areas, and some sub-divisions within them, as well as some smaller, mutually allowlisted islands that don't federate outside at all.

Building a new public square may be Eugen Rochko's goal, but it's not what most instance admins and moderators want. Joining the Fediverse looking for a new Twitter is and always has been a mistake.
Insurance companies can't use genetic data, that's prohibited under GINA.
xAI
This surprised me when I first heard it:

George Bush (junior) signed a law barring insurance companies from using DNA data for health insurance pricing etc.

I was surprised by this b/c my assumption was that insurance companies would want that and Republicans would push for it. The law passed 95-0 in the Senate though so this seems like, along with robocalls, something everyone is opposed to.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...
Twitter was rate limiting people and those people affected could not see government posts if they exceeded their quota. So in that strict sense it is quite reasonable.

Several government entities where I am left after the blue checkmark fiascos meant people were trying to impersonate the official accounts.
I've also studied finance and economics, like in university and everything, though not to any great extent. I came away from the experience thinking that it might have a bit more predictive power than reading chicken entrails.

What long term predictions from the past accurately tell you today's rates? That is do you have any back testing?
> Yuengling is just a cheaply made lager that’s really no better than Budweiser.

Now, maybe in terms of production methods, but I've consumed plenty of Bud and absolutely gallons of Yuengling, and Yuengling stands apart. It's not fancy, but it's good.

College parties in Rochester would usually include Labatt, Molson, Yuengling, and Genesee. Only the Yuengling was worthy as a drinking beer; Labatt and Molson were just for shotgunning & pong, and Genesee was for joking about what it did to your bowels.
This is somewhat in the same vein as the argument that we can't possibly do anything of modest importance if somewhere children are starving. Amusingly this remains true even if we do nothing to ameliorate the larger problem its mere existence provides sufficient counter argument for any action. Inevitably if larger matters go unaddressed it is because we don't want to pay higher taxes to feed starving kids not because all our time was consumed by the trivial.
The big qiestion for me is how many other viruses cause long-covid-like symptoms? I suspect that there are a significant amount of people who have fatigue and depression issues that have actually been infected with a virus and have been misdiagnosed.

It's great that there is progress towards better diagnosis.
> Why is that relevant?

Because millions of Twitter users are (were?) looking for a replacement and a LOT of people, rightly or wrongly, were selling Mastodon as that replacement.
Then guess what? You might not find yourself in a bubble if you stop using WhatsApp. Which... is exactly what I said before.
> Threads now has 100 million accounts

Instagram has 100 million accounts.
> With the permisivity of the protocol, Meta (and anyone) can consume any ActivityPub data they want.

Well, in practice it's pretty easy to block Facebook-range IP addresses at the firewall level, and then there's no other way for Facebook to get (authenticated) information about posts/users. "Will admins end up going that far" is an open question, but it's not like Facebook is going to be renting out residential IPs and forging user-agents to get around these types of bans.
It’s a factor of Steam not Linux. They could in theory do it for other platforms too.

Fossilize does require at least one playthrough because shader permutations can be generated at runtime. There’s no static shader setup that’s common to all games. It just means that the first playthrough doesn’t have to be the same person playing it right now
Im still waiting for Google to sunset search. Just to filter out some of that detached metric management.
They really did use steam beer process fwiw. Big stainless steel swimming pools in open air and unrefrigerated. It wasn't completely outdoors but that's a fair change to the process. I think it's reasonable to consider this as steam beer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_Brewing_Company#/media/...
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614924
Also a law that could change at any minute.
We ship fruit from Argentina where it is grown, to Thailand to be packaged, to the United States to be consumed.

While it may be efficient from the perspective of a spreadsheet, its inefficient due to the external costs, ie pollution from shipping, the delicate nature of just-in-time shipments, etc.

Your fruit cup might cost a bit more if it was to be done all in one place, but I would call that a cost for a less fragile system.
> To do that, it can only add features and never take them away. Instead, it adds features that deprecate the practice of PITA patterns that were common, necessary and difficult.

The result being that programmers have to learn every single one of those ways of doing things in order to read your coworkers code. Give me python 3 breaking changes any day
A problem with many paid services is that they still have ads.

Was watching something with my wife the other day (I think it was on HBO streaming) and there were ads? I'm like "hang on we're paying for this, and still have to watch ads?"
There was no employer withholding originally. People wrote a check each year, which made the amounts very visible to each person. Employer withholding keeps it quiet and low-key so few resist the takings.

"Current Tax Payment Act of 1943"
https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/191355
No good reason anyway.
Ironic to see people take such a claim seriously on an ad-funded website.
I think the overarching concern is giving tech giant like Microsoft a hand when it's already entrenched in consumer, enterprise and government markets.

We don't need to inflate an already bighead corporate oligarch.
Not to put too fine a point on it but we are talking about the CEO of a gambling company here…
>Most people noped out at "First, pick a server, but don't worry, this list only includes the ones who promise to be safe!",

I always laugh when I see that "furry" is a category too choose server from on the official page. Sums up Mastodon perfectly. Too bad there is no "hentai" that would be the cherry on the cake.
So enact a hugely regressive tax that hits poor people the hardest as a percent of income, while lets rich people accumulate obscene wealth tax free? That’s what funding everything with sales tax does.
>Your argument was that it is more beneficial for players to pay many times the price of any game they play often.

No it wasn't. My arugment is that this is what players are doing already. I don't care about how you feel about gaming habits. My only point in replying to you is to say that

>The majority of gamers don't play more than a handful of games in a year. There's just no time. You find a game you're into, your pour most of your hours into that game.

is wrong. You asked for proof against that and I gave you a link for gaming trends. You countered with "That's not a good thing", and I don't care. Because that's not my argument. Whever you inferred that I applied personal judgement to these statistics is wrong until you made your comment about that judgement.

So there you have it. If you want to shift your argument to "this isn't good for the consumer"... well, I gave you my take. Take it or leave it, I have nothing more to add to that discussion. If you want to go back to talking about what and how people consume games, feel free to respond to that.

Yes, people do play multiple games a month, so they are also fine renting games to consume more. Even in console games, there are so many accounts to how Gamepass has reinvigorated some people to playing more games than before.
It's relevant because commenters on here and other places are saying everyone should switch from 'the bird site' to mastodon?
Yes and median real wages are up as a result.
How many are relevant for a 22 year old? Especially if most 22 year olds start doing it?
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I think the other aspect as well is that the 360 ended up with the somewhat better GPU in Xenos.

I'm not sure if it was obvious at the time in-between the Cell BE and "reality synthesiser" marketing etc. but I understand that gave the 360 an edge in a lot of cross-platform titles.

I think this really influenced the design of the PS4 which actually had a really weak Jaguar CPU but a solid GPU in its APU.
TI doesn't make RISCV anything.

It's why they called it the BeagleV ;)
There's a bit of a difference between what you see following the 'purchase' link and what you see if you scroll down to 'pricing' on your site. It confused me at first too - I'm just so used to seeing a 'pricing' link in the top bar, I pretty much always go there first to see if there's a reasonable free tier for me to play with something.
Unironically how it feels to live in some democracies. Never voting people in, just voting them out every few years in perpetuity.
I recently visited Disney Sea and found it very strange that food carts (10+ popcorn flavors each in different carts) never sold drinks. They were 1 item only. Popcorn or ice cream or nuts but only that 1 item. Drinks were only available at the very few vending machines or at full restaurants. I think they are missing a big upsell opportunity.
This tagline is something only Elon Musk has the confidence to state:

> xAI: Understand the Universe

> xAI is a new company founded by Elon Musk that sets out to understand the universe.

Will he deliver is, of course, an entirely different story.

> Relation to X Corp

> We are a separate company from X Corp, but will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission.

I bet his Twitter/X Corp. investors love that he plans to "work closely" with Twitter, but keep all the liabilities and debt away from X.AI into Twitter. Shouldn't be surprised.
You may be interested in Clone Hero.
True, the replay aspect does help as long as nothing invalidates the pipeline, which is still a higher possibility on PCs than consoles
Not a bad assumption to be fair. Even if they don't actively share specific financial data, there isn't a good way to be able to verify and audit what exactly a Meta 'page counter' pixel is doing (and what Meta is doing with that data).

Regardless of the details it's an area that needs A LOT more regulatory scrutiny.
Yeah, Grammarly is moving in the wrong direction for me. What I’d like to see is better integration with text editors etc, especially in a plain text environment. 99% of what I write is Markdown, LaTeX, or some other markup language, which Grammarly does not deal well with at all. LanguageTool is much better in this respect, although it doesn’t find nearly as many mistakes as Grammarly
> I'm skeptical that LLMs are going to replace screenwriters in any serious way

I have seen at least one movie that grossed a billion dollars that could have very well been written by an LLM. In fact, that was one of my immediate impressions while watching that movie. I don’t think it would be sustainable to do this across the industry but it could easily be done.
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Imagine the liability if such a nest comes loose for heads and cars.
The way many people remember it is millions lost their homes and livelihood while the bankers who had made billions in bad loans got golden parachutes and bailed out, at the same time most people were wondering how they were going to eat.

Honestly, things would've been rough, but I think they would've been better if we would've let the economy and the extra waste it has bleed like a stuck pig.
If only Elon hadn't splurged the 40+ billion on Twitter, he could've been stacked with H100's right about now.
If you're paying more you're probably getting more.

Old cable TV had about 5 channels that I ever watched and 50 that I did not care about.

A sports network + Netflix is not more than cable. If you subscribe to much more than that, you're probably getting more than a bundled cable deal used to provide.
I'm not a beer guy, but as I understand it many craft beers are actually made through contract brewers. That suggests that beer can be, well, "reduced" to a recipe that can be replicated. I've heard that Samuel Adams uses contract breweries, and, in fact, a fellow who used to work with us had his own private label that he went and got a bunch of cases brewed, made up a label, found a bottler, and sold locally.

Now, I know water quality is an important factor, but even then I've heard of pizza restaurants that have analyzed New York water (apparently an important aspect of New York Pizza) to the point of having it replicated (adding back proper mineral amounts, etc.).

So, I don't know how much of Anchor Steam is purely based on location.

If, however, it can be "just a recipe" suggests that it can be returned at any time if the corporate parent deigns it worthy to bring it back.
> 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.

Following the conversations here, you can sort of see why. Seems like a lot of Mastodon didn't really want to be a Twitter replacement and it also seems like a lot of Mastodon admins and users are happy for that.

I entirely support that, I just wish they hadn't wasted a lot of people's time by pretending.
Well, we're deep into worthless pedantry here, but I love worthless pedantry.

I would say that despite the casual use of "share" such as in your example, that isn't really "sharing". It's bartering. The use of the car is predicated on getting something in return, so it's an exchange of value.
Every (experimental) scientist on earth knows how to build dangerous things.
Glad to see a company take the moral way, not the most profitable one. It’s disgusting how many companies happily keep conducting business with/in Russia.
Well Meta is already at risk (now more than before) of lessening user choice and competition with the release of Threads. If they don't federate, then the regulators will come after them and break them up. Meta doesn't want that.

It's also funny how folks here don't realize that this is all related to the Digital Services Act in the EU which gatekeepers like Meta have to interoperate with other open protocols such as ActivityPub to allow users to move off of their platforms and to not incentivise lock-in. Meta would not risk not doing so especially with a new platform that has just captured 100M users in less than a week.

So yes. Meta is serious about federation [0], especially when they sent the NDAs to the admins of the largest Mastodon instances which haven't denied federating with Meta. Contrary to the denial I've seen in the comments here on HN.

[0] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2023Jul/00...
Companies like these do exist. I think if you looks for smaller companies, bootstrapped companies, and/or companies that are run by their founders who managed to retain control and valued culture you'll find folks who are more values driven.

At some level though, you need management to be focused enough on revenue to keep the lights on, and make sure you are getting raises and career progression. (I do think like many posters have mentioned, there are teams within bigger companies that are values driven with good management that shields ICs from the bigger org challenges -- until they don't)

The incentives do change when outside money is involved.

A few ideas:

- Companies that serve values driven industries (gov, nonprofits, medical)

- B-corps

- Bootstrapped Companies

- Higher Education / Research Labs

Some examples:

- https://www.olark.com/values (company I founded - which fits your target, but isn't currently hiring)

- https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/

- https://smallgiants.org/

- https://www.usworker.coop/directory/

My guess is smaller companies in general will have less politics and more autonomy.

If I were in your shoes I'd take a look at:

- https://buffer.com/journey (founder retained enough control to drive culture)

- https://automattic.com/work-with-us/ (I've always admired wordpress and the team behind it, they've been customers multiple times and they've been a joy to work with)

- https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/externa... (I am a former academic, the pay isn't great, but lots of cool problems to work on, search for "media lab", teams are small enough politics is likely less of an issue)

fun problem to solve, I am curious where you'll land.
You should do calculus because it translates to actual problem-solving. Not everything is nice and chunky in discrete - calculus allows you to model and calculate continuous kinds of problems. Even if its not the area under the curve or some infinite series thing, it's a really good intro to modeling things in terms of adding up many small steps.
That’s the hard part about standards. I’m not sure how a standard can become one without people taking a chance on it.

Case in point: You actually do not need to create another account on Threads - it interoperates with this standard. Citizens will be able to follow information from the Dutch government on that platform.
The grape growers dehydrated grape juice and sold it in bricks as "instant juice", with instructions: "After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine."

https://grapecollective.com/articles/prohibitions-grape-bric...
It was both. There were targeted sanctions against powerful individuals, the government, and certain Russian industries, but lawmakers and public opinion also explicitly urged sanctions/private withdrawals from Russia from organizations that were providing service to the country to protest the war.
Plots of many movies in recent years have been so crap, that honestly chatgpt can do a better job already.
People who pay for stuff are more valuable targets for ads
Yeah, this. A strike is the definition of playing hardball. Let's not suddenly pretend that everyone is just trying to see the other side flourish as human beings and we care deeply about you personally.
Announce your car sale in a catalogue of local cars for sale. Ads in catalogues are tolerable because only people desiring to see ads will pick up such a catalogue. Ads placed in places intended to be visible to people who aren't specifically trying to look for ads are the problem. Those ads which try to force themselves on people have an inherently adversarial relationship with people, and therefore we're under no moral obligation to tolerate it. People who make it their business to advertise in that manner are absolute gutter scum.
>>programming is about learning syntax.

It indeed is, how do you communicate meaning without words/symbols?

Make an attempt to reply to this very comment by any means apart from using words/symbols.
Agreed. Seems like the only certainty is uncertainty in that case?
No more NUC: Intel’s weirdly named mini PCs seem to be going away
The current lineup of late night "comedians" is just horrible ... I miss john stewart - did he write his own stuff?
Any reason you didn’t contribute to pgvector?

It would have been nice to get the support of neon in progressing pgvector - since it’s already so widely adopted by the community

(disclosure: supabase ceo)
ChatGPT: "I'm your writer now."
The irrational part is supposed to be (since they don't have infinite financing) that they act like they DGAF about their own companies losing income and bleeding out on debt service, or their own stock prices cratering?