skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm bullish on it because it's not subject to the whims of any one player, and the Fediverse is also not just Mastodon, but also Misskey, Calkey, Akkoma, Lemmy, Bookwyrm, Pixelfed, Peertube and many more, all of which can interoperate. And eventually Threads too if they follow through.

It's a long game of wanting an entirely different model where the threshold to try new things is far lower because you can tap into an existing network from day one.

But Mastodon in itself is valuable to me already today. If it keeps growing, great, but I'll be there even if it doesn't. It's taken over the place from Twitter for me as the one social media site I keep permanently open on a separate virtual desktop. I check Twitter less and less.
According to Statista, there were 10 million registered users as of March 2023: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1376022/global-registere...
Liberty ale was my first IPA and still holds a dear place in my heart. At least Sierra Nevada seems to be thriving still
> Windows 7 with the Classic theme (which really was just a slight evolution over Win2K) was peak UI/UX

I held on to Windows 7 until the EOL date and I was forced to upgrade by my company for this reason. Minimal padding, clear borders and drag targets, high contrast coloring, no animations; it was far better usability-wise.
Millions of Tenants on One Instance
Native multi-tenancy support that scales to millions of tenants with 10s of thousands of active tenants per node! This feature is part of the Weaviate 1.20 release.
This number was 50% back in 2013, so I’m not sure it’s the canary in the coalmine that you’re making it out to be.
So collect the data? In Germany it is standard to classify workers based on marital and child status[0]

[0] https://neotax.eu/en/blog/tax-classes-steuerklassen-in-germa...
Things don't have to be just STOP!!! or just GO!!! Hindsight is 20/20, but a little more moderation along the way might have been a good thing.

And yeah, recovering from a recession is good, but the crazy positive stock market growth after recovering, in a country that isn't really growing it's production or population, should tell you that a comeuppance was on the horizon.

btw: That "If by X you mean Y" type of statement... It's snarky and sarcastic. I wish people could just talk without being jerks.
I asked gpt for giggles and the comparison is much more thorough, it has written also power per watt improvements, benefits of denser packing, and sustainability of moving toward more energy efficient solution.
Never been excited in the least by it. Being too clever imho. Problem is: I don’t often get to dictate what we use so there I am, caught in the web.
> It's closely tied to violence to be sure. If it were removed would the violence go away though? Would groups with a history of violence find other ways to provoke each other?

I think you might be onto something here.

Reminded me of my middle school history teacher, who tried pretty much imprint into us the difference between triggers and reasons for events. Which I found to be pretty helpful, as people tend to often confuse those and use then interchangeably. A specific example of triggers vs reasons: start of WW1 was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, but it was not the reason for the war. There were plenty of reasons that would've pretty much led to the war regardless of Archduke being assassinated.

So I agree with you. Drill music is tied to violence, but it isn't the reason for it or a direct cause, it is more of a trigger. And you cannot eliminate the problem by just eliminating a trigger, you gotta address the reasons for it first.
I didn't say you can't make your own decisions. I didn't say it has to happen on the job board's platform either.

> Consistently identifying whether an individual has the right to work in a country from the semi-structured data in a resume is a surprisingly hard problem for software to solve

Many job posts provide a field that requires the candidate to enter if they have the right to work in the country the position is located.
I would look into smaller companies that make niche products. Specifically, niche products that are a) used in boring business-case scenarios and b) have no real potential for absurd growth rates. Things like WordPress plugins, code text editors, or billing software for plumbers.

In my experience, smaller, profitable companies like this have more of what you're looking for. Often times, they only have a few full-time staff other than the founder, so they tend to fly under the radar.
I am 48 years old man in Northern Europe and been working in IT since 1995. Currently would define myself as old-skool U*nix sysadmin. I have consciuosly avoided all social networking. For a short time around 2007 I had Google account only to save longer trips on Gmaps. I am reading HN occasionally for a long time but don't consider it social networking.
Ok, so what? if my email provider blocks gmail, I just leave to a diff provider. At the end of the day, the servers either provide the experience users want, or users leave to a server that does.

(But I still don’t think meta is going to enable activitypub)
I found this on their FAQ: "There have been some problems with downloading .zip files from Safari. The download is tested to work in Chrome and FireFox."
Iirc there were 8 chiplets on the cell die, one was disabled for yield rate and one was dedicated to the os itself, leaving 6 of them for gaming.

Then they had the super riced out rsx (Nvidia GeForce 7000 series) for the GPU, but there wasn't really a "main" CPU was there?
Still an announcement. But if the goal is to promote, then it’s an advertisment. There’s a difference between making known that there’s something to buy and enticing people to buy something. It may be the way to do business (because competition) but that does not means I should subject myself to it, especially its current form.
It's very hard to offer advice without knowing any details other than your age - being an older programmer does mean that you will need to make sure that you stand out from the younger programmers (i.e. those who are willing to work for a lot less and haven't yet learned to pace their work life so they don't burnout :) )

Find your unique selling points and try to get them across (as well as making sure you cover the other areas that all programmers will have in common). Also make sure to tailor your responses to the companies/posts your applying to/for.
I also didn't see those as press-able buttons until I was pretty deep into the game. UX could use some work :-)
Total ad spending is growing slower than the economy [1].

[1] https://www.ibisworld.com/us/bed/total-advertising-expenditu...
Traditional memory allocators set aside some of the memory for metadata (for instance to keep track of allocated and free memory regions), I guess that Vale stores the generation count associated with an "allocation item" in a similar way, e.g. somewhere else than the actual items.

Also, the blog post talks about 'generational indices', not pointers. This seems to indicate that items of the same type (or at least same size) are grouped into arrays (and since it's an index anyway, the metadata could be stored in one or multiple separate arrays at the same index).

PS: I already linked it elsewhere, but here's how the same can be achieved without language/compiler support (at least it's the same general idea): https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html

The big step forward by Vale is that the compiler can elide most of the 'dangling checks' on memory accesses, the method outlined in the blog post requires a few rules-of-thumb the coder must follow when using a pointer that's been looked up from a generational-index.
> "Protection of Free Speech" is only about avoid persecution from the Government, not about being able to say whatever crap you want without consequences.

The same thing could be said to you when your political opinions get censored. But it seems you can't imagine that.
Exactly this. The article isn't really at all about calculus, but rather the benefit of challenging yourself more generally. Doing challenging things that push you out of your comfort zone better prepare you to do the things you actually want to do later in life.
Threads now has 100 million accounts, Mastodon has about 13 million (2 million daily active users, daily active users on Threads is probably a similar ratio). I don't think they care about slurping up everything. In fact, I think that they won't go through with federation as it isn't in their interest.

Why? If they federate, I can follow people who post on Threads, but I get a chronological timeline I control and no ads. They make money on ads. So why should they federate? To "slurp up everything"? They already have much more than Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse have.
> If money actually goes to the candidate instead of the campaign to re-elect the candidate, it is literally bribery and is illegal.

True. Also if the money enriches the candidate thru means other than cash-in-hand, the bribery may be legal and is just as unethical.
I'd wager they aren't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_controls
So two buttons?

> I don't see how it is different from any other service where you can sign in with google/facebook/etc.

It was an account merge. You cannot delete your threads “PROFILE” without deleting your instagram.

There is no other service which utilizes google/Facebook/etc to login that when I cancel my account on that platform I lose my google/Facebook/etc account.

From the TOS
“You may deactivate your Threads PROFILE at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram ACCOUNT,” (emphasis mine)

Hell even the tos clearly states its not a threads account. It’s a profile based on the instagram account which are irrevocably tied.

But hey, they are working on it. Ya know after all the publicity about shattering “SIGN UP” records.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/07/delete-your-threads-account/
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Universal Florida does this really "well" with their Hagrids ride. There's an outside part, then you wander around in a room, and only then discover the real line -- the three days you'll spend wandering around in tunnels with no sight lines to help you figure out how far along you are.
Since Hollywood peaked in about 1962, and since most people haven't seen much of what before, the execs could just recycle old movies for years
Massive alarm bells in my head for this..
“Computer security 80% solved if we deprecate technology shown in this graphic”
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We’re not saying the opposite actually. I agree with what you’re saying, BUT:

> idk. Most of my YouTube recommendations are exactly that but from all around the world lol. I can’t even say most are from Japan. I would be lying if I did.

“Exactly that” = small batch, artisan videos

“From all around the world lol” = not only from Japan

“I can’t even say that most are from Japan” = Most of the videos on my feed aren’t from Japan

I think you’re hung up on the “exactly that” part.

I didn’t say “most of my YouTube recommendations are small batch, artisan videos from Japan and the rest are from all around the world.”

I said “most of my YouTube recommendations are small batch, artisan videos from all around the world.”

I didn’t estimate how many videos are Japan-related. I didn’t need to. GP said that “all stories like this are from Japan”. I gave my opinion that he’s wrong based on my YouTube recommendations. Not all stories are from Japan. Even with your misinterpretation of my comment, the conclusion remains the same lol since it was a reply to GP. You seem to have read my comment without that context.

Whether Japanese videos are overestimated (or underestimated which is probably closer to reality) in my feed is meaningless to the conversation that I was having with GP since the discussion (based on the highlighted quote from GP’s comment) was about whether all stories like that come from Japan. The conclusion is “no, not all stories like that come from Japan”.

Thanks for trying to teach me basic statistics though, I guess!
Speaking of styropyro, he's very adept at sourcing less than savory laser parts and has no qualms putting those extremely high wattages to crazy uses. I'm still not sure the guy isn't blind and just faking it really well. No, really. I've got spots in my vision from using >5W lasers, I've no idea how he doesn't (Pro-Tip: don't put wedding rings in the laser path)

Nile Red is also really good at chemistry and seems to have no qualms doing questionable stuff. Think 'Things I Won't Work With', and then he works with it, a lot. Thank God he's not too into amines ... yet. The algorithm is going to push him ever more towards the boom-boom side of chemistry and he can only resist so long.

Speaking in prosecutor-terms, these guys more than have the means and opportunity, they need only the motive and the case is a slam dunk. The lines they walk are quite fine.

All that said, I love these guys and have for years. I'll continue to watch and support them as long as they can continue to upload, which is never a sure thing in their cases
Related. Others?

Making C++ safe without borrow checking, reference counting, or tracing GC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36448759 - June 2023 (214 comments)

Memory safety without borrow checking, reference counting, or garbage collection - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36351415 - June 2023 (93 comments)

What Vale taught me about linear types, borrowing, and memory safety - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36156790 - June 2023 (12 comments)

How Memory safety approaches speed up and slow down development velocity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34410187 - Jan 2023 (137 comments)

The Vale Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31786487 - June 2022 (90 comments)

The Vale Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25160202 - Nov 2020 (171 comments)

The Next Steps for Single Ownership and RAII - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23865674 - July 2020 (38 comments)
Not GP, but the utility of a social app is linked to network effects - i.e. the more people who use it, the more utility it provides. Otherwise you're risking tooting to the wind.
For comparison, the number of Mastodon users (not active) as reported by known instances is more like 13M.
> Yes, predicting correctly does pay.

Predicting correctly and not telling others pays more.
>> The figure is slightly misleading

An aggregate figure which can’t ever describe inflation as experienced by individuals is only SLIGHTLY misleading?

It’s like saying we’re all 32 years old or whatever the average age is. You might resoundingly refute the idea that as a 16 year old or a 96 year old that you’re 32. You’d look aghast as someone gaslights you with “yes we all have different ages thats obvious but its the average that matters, so you’re 32 like everyone else”.

But but that’s not the point of ascribing a number to inflation i hear you cry, it’s still a useful construct because it can be compared across countries, it can be compared over time… the model itself can be adjusted to suit particular analysis - RPI, RPI-H, CPI, CPI-H, etc.

… to which i can’t help but yawn. The discipline of macro economics has more in common with astrology than science. The answer to any identified weakness is always “more macro economics”.

Micro economics is often useful though.

Micro = come up with a hypothesis, test it and see if it works.

Macro = tell bamboozling campfire stories with the purpose of claiming power and money away from others without having to fight them for it.
Wow! Those institutional threats sound pretty sophisticated. I’m sure the average self-hosting solution is prepared for adversaries like that, and when agents come knocking on my door I’ll just tell them “no hard drives here!”

You know, with such a scary and complex network of online adversaries and government agencies, I wonder if I could pay someone else to manage that risk for me. My business is selling online greeting cards for pets and I don’t really specialize in network security and data protection.
> Do the people cheering this understand that inflation is not a 'baseline' measurement, but a relative one?

Yes, of course. Inflation is a derivative, and when the rate at which prices were increasing slows down: that is worth cheering. It's a good thing (for consumers) in and of itself.
Yeah but at the same time, PTSD from for example Mortal Kombat or Carmageddon can develop later in life / over a long period in time. One example, there's a pretty harrowing scene in Shaun of the Dead where one of the characters gets disemboweled. We have a 15 year old that watched that at a much younger age, didn't hit him, but when he saw it again it affected him a lot more.

I think being able to correlate and understand what's happening is a big factor in how things affect you. Films like Grave of the Fireflies apparently (I haven't watched it) hit much harder if you have kids for example.
Leaked Org Chart Reveals 58 Most Important People at Google DeepMind
Forth dialects typically don't have forward referencing _or_ variables that can be defined in the middle of a function, though!

(Though, writing a function long enough that you might want to declare a variable part-way through it would probably be a code smell in Forth...)
This is what I always wanted to see. Municipalities running federated servers. Solves the problem of "which server do I pick" and also gives user guarantees that are tangibly bound to real entities.

I think a whole nation is too big for one server of course. But some kind of breakdown based on reasonable subsidiarity would be great. In the US, maybe it would be counties. Sort of like phone numbers, you may choose to keep your original area code even after you move, or eventually maybe you update and move your account to the new server when you settle in.
I'm a "normal person" who's never created a mastodon account, and just tried this. The original article (a "toot") has a "sign up now" button in the side pane, which I clicked, entered a username and email address and pressed submit. I immediately received an email with a confirmation link, which I clicked. Now I can toot.
Thanks for the link. Looks like a thorough article. I'll defs give it a read.
> with a title I could not connect to anything in a book

The book literally explains the title, at length. It is part of the meta-commentary running through the book.
0% inflation is a bad thing because it encourages people to put off purchasing things. That means that people who make things lose work. Fewer people are employed; less stuff is made; the economy as a whole doesn't advance.

Low inflation is good for savers, but they'd rather have people invest money than sit on it. Inflation is a punishment for people who take their money out of the system.

The Fed aims for a gentle inflation to nudge people into buying stuff now rather than putting it off until tomorrow. The 2% figure is, very roughly, the amount of inflation that matches the expected systemic unemployment under Okun's Law. ("Laws" in economics are, of course, much less solid than they are in physics, but it does mean there's a model behind it and not just a guess.)
Sure - it's a multi-part issue. Deflation is just as bad when wages are flat, though, or even worse. The real value of all this debt Americans have accrued would still be increasing while wages are flat. Deflation also means that businesses are less likely to increase wages - all their debt is in the same boat, and they can argue that by keeping pay the same in a deflationary environment that people are getting de facto pay raises.

Obviously wages being flat isn't good when there is inflation, either - if they don't keep up you end up needing more debt because you can't afford to pay for everything out of your regular wages.

We're barely scratching the surface here, but modern economies have a lot of different cogs that really only turn properly in an inflationary environment. It just needs to be a lot less inflationary than it has been.
Interoperability just doesn't seem possible/practical—not without hurting all apps involved. Hopefully I'm just pessimistic.
Also all threadrippers
For those who say Apple/Google will make sideloading more difficult to reach/enable:

> 3. The gatekeeper shall ensure that the obligations of Articles 5, 6 and 7 are fully and effectively complied with.

> 4. The gatekeeper shall not engage in any behaviour that undermines effective compliance with the obligations of Articles 5, 6 and 7 regardless of whether that behaviour is of a contractual, commercial or technical nature, or of any other nature, or consists in the use of behavioural techniques or interface design.

> 6. The gatekeeper shall not degrade the conditions or quality of any of the core platform services provided to business users or end users who avail themselves of the rights or choices laid down in Articles 5, 6 and 7, or make the exercise of those rights or choices unduly difficult, including by offering choices to the end-user in a non-neutral manner, or by subverting end users’ or business users' autonomy, decision-making, or free choice via the structure, design, function or manner of operation of a user interface or a part thereof.

> 7. Where the gatekeeper circumvents or attempts to circumvent any of the obligations in Article 5, 6, or 7 in a manner described in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of this Article, the Commission may open proceedings pursuant to Article 20 and adopt an implementing act referred to in Article 8(2) in order to specify the measures that the gatekeeper is to implement.
EDIT: Resolved.

~~Can we not do that thing where we mock autistic people throwing a fit? (That's what /\b[Rr][Ee]{2,}\b/ means.)~~
I've seen this a number of times. One time, I got a clue as to how it comes about -- I travelled a 35MPH road with synchronized signals, and the city reduced the speed limit to 30, but didn't go to the trouble to adjust the light timing to match.
NASA Rover Discovers ‘Promising Hint’ of Habitability on Mars
You can get up to the hour stats from a number of Mastodon bots and it's now around 13M
The thing that's amazing about ActivityPub is if it becomes large enough to have similar network effects to other social media platforms, it effectively would bring back the ability for people to publish on their own domain without worrying about whether their audience will be able to follow them. In a strange way, ActivityPub feels like it could do what RSS did, only better.

Maybe. Or, maybe it won't. But then again, even if it doesn't take off to the level that people hope, a couple million active is plenty of company still, if it can be sustained.
Panel Self-Refesh is an optional feature, is it not?
This was framed really well IMO. I think you could take this much further. ‘Problem sourcing’ doesn’t get the prominence it needs.
Hackers exploit gaping Windows loophole to give their malware kernel
> If you know "why empires fall" (nobody does)

I said see how they fall. Not every way, and not necessarily why, but how.

> then you could just teach that, the historical context would be almost irrelevant

I don't think you can see how they fall without historical context. That is the how.

> even the premise of a cyclical history, which can be broken by voting, seems completely insane

I didn't mention a cyclical history. Some things repeat, but that doesn't mean in general history is cyclical.

I don't mean to comment in a way that's too much on the nose, but I've just broken out various statements of yours and shown how they didn't follow from what I said. Spending time studying literature in a controlled environment, can help train children to read what's being said, as opposed to what they guess is being said. It's not perfect, but it can help a lot.