skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a gross misreading of how the Fediverse operates.

Yes, there is some locality aspect to the instance you belong to, but in general the instance you log on to has comparatively little impact on what other instances you can interact with.

This isn't absolutely true. The characteristics of a given instance do have an impact on what technical features are available to you. There are a number of supported advanced features such as toot length, Markdown and LaTeX formula support, etc., which apply to only a subset of instances. My primary instance, toot.cat, is based on Glitch.soc, a Mastodon fork, which supports both long posts and Markdown, both of which I (ab)use frequently. Mathstodon, hosted by our own @ColinWright, is amongst those supporting LaTeX-based maths formulae, for some inexplicable reason....

Another is that the moderation practices your instance follows will be reflected in how remote instances interact with yours. Ineffective or beligerent moderators are a fast route to being limited or outright blocked (there is a continuum of potential restrictions, it's not all-or-nothing) by others. And similarly, your local instance might have its own set of criteria for determining what traffic or patterns are or are not permissible in remote instances, again resulting in varying levels of moderation on that basis.

The "local community" element mostly shows up in the Local timeline. I ... hardly ever have that open, relying instead on a set of curated, priority-based Lists, or pinned Hashtags.

Lists are based on specific profiles you choose to add, and I've found that the best organisational method is not topical but rather is based on interest level. So I keep a relatively small top-priority list, a somewhat broader secondary, and for profiles who are overly chatty, a third which I view rarely. I follow nearly 1,000 profiles, but effectively see perhaps 50--100. I have a small set of topical lists, largely press/journalists and admins, though I use those rarely.

I'll also pin hashtags that I'm currently interested in, which might be for anything from a few minutes to months on end. You can also subscribe to hashtags as of recently, though I've yet to do this.

There are other topical tools including <https://gup.pe>, which function somewhat like a mailing list or forum. (There are newer variants which offer more powerful moderation options.)

But in general, the instance you're on, so long as it's well-managed and well-behaved, has little impact on who else you can interact with.

The misinformation, and disinformation, on this point becomes tedious with time.
What even is the email used for on HN?
GP is referring to the deregulation of the late 1970s. Before that, there were a large number of smaller regional airlines in the US, that have since mostly disappeared.
That would be relevant if the criterion was "what some authority believes".

Joel merely states what reality showed about Postel's law over decades.

It's a thing developers know from experience, if Joe Random had said the above quote, it would still be true.
Maybe he will be correct here too. I think that isn't even too unlikely in the long run.
Maybe it's just because I'm too young to have seen much of Steve Jobs prior to his death, but my impression of coverage surrounding him was that while he did have certain behaviors he insisted on and were often talked about like his turtlenecks, it didn't really fit the stereotype of a tech nerd of the time.

Back then "nerd" seemed to have a much more negative connotation and seemed to describe people who were closer to "gross" than "quirky", like the trope of them constantly having a runny nose or sneezing everywhere due to allergies. Steve on the other hand came off as very clean and insistent on dressing nicely, even if in his own style.

I feel like Zuck was/is similarly seen as a sham for his entire robotic persona. Perhaps not as a scam, but he certainly never seemed to be all that liked by people.

I don't know anything about Newsom to comment on that one. But one other example where I was telling people it was probably a scam beforehand was Nikola. I don't recall what about his behavior did it for me, but something was just off about him in the way SBF was that just screamed deception.
Bluetooth devices are the worst for this. I had a very similar case where the letter "z" would randomly be pressed. Same case of random Bluetooth keyboard in a pile. More obnoxious though was a Apple Mouse that kept trying to connect to one of our work stations. It over and over would pop up a dialog saying the mouse wants to connect. It would happen usually in the morning and last a few minutes during which you in essence couldn't work. There was no way in macOS to have it remember the decision to not connect. When we tried to just pair with it too get rid of the dialog it would fail. We never solved this one. It just stopped happening one day.
> … is a fatal flaw of mastodon. I don’t want to belong to just one community.

I could be misunderstanding what you’re saying, but regarding Fosstodon, they’re not at all limited to one community — they’re not decoupling from the fediverse?
Well, we didn't mind the mold and mildew as much, for starters.
> and because it was easy people were quick to learn and use them

and then went on to write a shitload of insecure code.

Just because it's simple to use, doesn't mean that just anyone should be using it. The problem with PHP is that it can be used by someone with far below average programming skills to make something functional. But the flip side of how forgiving it is, is that it takes someone of above average skill to make something to use it to make something safe and performant.

Making it easy to use wrongly also makes it harder to use it right. Simply because you lack any feedback when you do something dumb.
Am I the only one to think of the Boxing Day tsunami -- ~200,000 dead -- or Fukushima, for that matter?

There might only be minutes of warning to get one of these away from a shore connection...
His real estate companies are not in good health.
>Older people rise to the top in institutions because they have the requisite experience, patience and people skills

What is your source for this very opinionated claim? Statistics would conclude that older people rise to the top in institutions simply because they were there earlier and have more chances to move up.
This is the end of succession we didn't get to see.
I've always been of the opinion that YAML is inappropriate as a configuration format, period. It has ambiguous parses, which is an immediate no-no.

I remember years ago I was writing my own parser for YAML and when I came across this problem I posted on a few mailing lists and got confirmation that the behavior is per-spec. I've never touched YAML since and still won't.

But I miss the days of XML, XSD, and dare I say it ... XSLT. XSLT is stupidly good at what it does as long as you don't abuse it.
I've never had issues with it, personally. In what way does it not work?
I feel like that “good riddance” attitude is a left over from an earlier time in human history. When the struggle for resources was life or death, and the survival of your community sometimes meant going to war with another community and killing other human beings, it was probably extremely useful to be able to mentally put those other other humans into a “not people” category. Now we’re living in a different world where survival doesn’t work like that anymore, but we still have the machinery in our heads that wants to classify The Other Group as less than human.
Can check it from a phone from the looks of it. RIP meetings though. Time to go touch grass I guess.
The problem is... who cares what this ambiguous "people" want? Mastodon was created by and for its intended userbase, as in, people who want a federated Twitter-like interface to ActivityPub.

Don't like it? You just excluded yourself as part of the intended userbase: Mastodon is not for people who don't grok federated service, and Mastodon doesn't want people who can't grok federated services.

Think of understanding simple concepts like this as sort of a "you have to be this tall to ride this ride" skill check gate. Either you get it, or you don't get in.
You know you can type the first few letters of the entry you're looking for while the drop-down is open right?
I think the definition of cyber crime is what is important here.

I think there are huge buildings with call centers in India dedicated to cyber crime. Thousands of people. Nothing to do with tech skills.

Here is Mark Rober basically bringing the war to their shores with incredible pranks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsLJZyih3Ac
I would be happier if Proton would concentrate on existing tools rather than irrelevant (imho) ones
Lots of people here not really understanding how this works in the UK.

A few times there's been a big media stories in the UK about a child who got badly abused or killed in domestic situations and then afterwards it turns out that various people (social services, teachers, charities etc) had concerns about the child's safety but concerns weren't written down or joined together and so the child could have been saved/rescued but wasn't.

So now in the UK we have a system of 'safeguarding referrals' where if someone has concerns they must make a safeguarding referral to social services but social services are terribly underfunded so the safeguarding referrals tend to pile up or just get filed unless they are really urgent. So now we have the problem of someone somewhere being responsible for wading through all the information and then identifying when the various reports from various places add up to a serious situation.

Hence you get an app like this where info from various agencies can be gathered in one place. https://www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/social-care-and-health/...

If you're going to hold government services such as social services or teachers responsible for childrens safety then this sort of thing is needed. And if you think thats not the job of the state then fair enough thats your opinion but in the UK the status quo is that it is the job of the state to look after vulnerable children/people.
While I’m very excited for an LLM powered Siri that has access to my calendar, email, and messages, it’s worth noting that llama.cpp is using metal for acceleration and the M2 Mac Studio is one of the best values out there for running very large models like llama2 70B derivatives or Falcon 180B. The shared ram/vram allows you to load huge models and it’s got decent tokens/sec performance.

In the last few weeks, the initial prompt evaluation step got much faster with llama.cpp so everything that depends on it like the python library and lmstudio are faster as well. I’m very happy with my purchase at this point and it seems to keep getting better.
That’s the title I shorted it to and my mistake, the STAT title actually says “They carry a gene for ALS but aren’t sick.”
> He flew his family over to the US, rented an SUV, but it's these "other fools" that are the problem.

File under tired tropes of shallow European impressions of the US.

I'm just sad he didn't bring up the metric system. I could have had bingo.
> I'm still noodling on what that ideal program could be, outside of the obvious graphics processing.

Basically any kind of big linear algebra workload. Things where you have a big vector/matrix and you need to do some operations to the whole thing. This applies to graphics processing, but also to all DSP in general: RF processing, image manipulation, video encoding, etc. Audio stuff tends to not need it because you only need to process 44000 samples per second, and CPUs are fast enough for that.

AI stuff, I understand, uses a lot of linear algebra, so GPUs are good for that workload also.
https://metro.co.uk/2017/10/04/everyone-is-disgusted-by-bori...

This guy?
"Boris Johnson Libya 'dead bodies' comment provokes anger"

"There's a group of UK business people, actually, some wonderful guys who want to invest in Sirte on the coast, near where Gaddafi was captured and executed as some of you may have seen."

"They have got a brilliant vision to turn Sirte into the next Dubai."

"The only thing they have got to do is clear the dead bodies away," he said, before laughing.
Multiple-aliasing cannot exist in a language without reference semantics, such as Val (or whatever its new name is).
Ah missed it, thanks
Yo Joe I do what I can
Oh.

The ISP can only see domain right? As long as it is https.
> YAML is far to helpful to convert bare strings to what it thinks is right (like 1.20 to 1.2 or no to false

Versions of the YAML standard from the last 14 years don't do the later, and supporting numbers as a basic data type is, honestly, a weird thing to harp on as “too far”.

> The issue is not isolated to JS either, the same could have happened in python, php, or any other untyped language.

Indexing an associative array of runtimes that is keyed by a string, or doing almost anything else that expects a string, when you get a number instead, will fail with an error in most dynamically typed languages including Python and PHP; much fewer string-expcting operating operations (and particularly not object indexing) will fail in JS with a number.
Texas produces the most renewable energy of any state, so the world doesn't map as cleanly onto right and wrong as you assume.
And then there's the story of Jiro, the Japanese sushi maker that was so highly praised, but it turned out that it was his oldest son that was actually making the sushi.

Anecdotes of 1 are meaningless other than fun stories to share.
>Someone can take the name and make mass produced garbage

This hit hard. Disney bought Lucasfilm. Look at Indiana Jones 5, I don't think anyone ask for it, but Disney made it and it's a major flop.
>The loss of cheap Russian natural gas needed to power factories “painfully damaged the business model of the German economy,” Kullmann told The Associated Press. “We’re in a situation where we’re being strongly affected — damaged — by external factors.”

I would argue that betting the farm on a single unreliable (at best) partner for cheap energy and future development is an internal factor and not an external one.
How many servers does Stack overflow run on? It’s not a good measure of data volume or criticality.

I think “expensive” here is basically relative to revenue/margin. Where margins are high, spending on Splunk (etc.) isn’t meaningful. Where margins are thin, it hurts.

Basically, the arguments here seem to reflect the markets and business model folks are working under. Some pay, some can’t and some won’t - all valid.
Because people reinvent half of it, different half every time in each project, and call it 'configuration' which somehow gives them licencia poetica for whatever crazy dung they come up with.

Compare ansible vs helm vs github actions vs literally anything with nontrivial config.

Note that if you asked me for real, I'd be a dhall proponent, but most normal people look at me funny the first time they hear it and then the second time they see the syntax.
And it was fun, fun, fun until Putin took the fossil fuels away.
Responded to a similar sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37598699

But in regards to:

> What you describe are not community features, but rather "user-sourced one-way value creation," ie. you can't benefit from the content you contribute unless Google takes unilateral action to allow you.

It's not very different from, say, Metacritic or Steam or Amazon reviews or Goodreads. Or this HN forum, for the matter. These things unfortunately have a network effect, and it takes a critical mass of editors to make them worthwhile. Maps has that first mover advantage, coming out the same time at OSM but seeing massively more adoption, especially when it comes to POIs like restaurants and such.

I find that OSM has better and better geography, but its POI layers are still lacking modern conveniences like contact information, reviews, and photos. Its UI is still pretty primitive and opts for miscellaneous tags instead of useful primary business attributes. Generally I just find it harder to use, and harder to share with others. I feel like it's juuuust near critical mass, but not quite there...
A strong sense of civil responsibility and decorum, maybe?
I would very much appreciate the same for RUNE if you feel motivated.

I'm looking now to choose the obsidian plugin that helps me take advantage of the vast amount of notes I have created with obsidian over the last few years.
Me too! I think of it every time I have to escape quotes when handling json documents. It will be very nice not to have to do it.
Me too. "Going out of business" didn't even hint at entering my mind.
That's exactly the kind of thinking that I'm alluding to. Okay, if base 12 is so great, why are gallons not divisible by 12? Why is our currency not divisible by 12? Why is a mile 1760 yards - what if you wanted to parcel a square mile into thirds on each side? Why is an inch partitioned into binary fractions? Why are pounds not divisible by 12? The imperial customs (it's hard to even call it a system) have no internal consistency.

To add to the observation about lack of internal consistency: Metalworkers use decimal inches. Woodworkers use feet, inches, and binary fractions. Surveyors use decimal feet. Some people use decimal miles. You could argue that each of the aforementioned systems make sense on its own, but none of them interoperate. Seriously - you'll be baffled if you pick up a decimal foot measuring tape in real life (they exist). Metric doesn't have this problem because if someone is doing detailed work in millimetres, someone is planning a house's rooms in metres, and someone is organizing a town's land in kilometres, they can all work with each other by simply moving the decimal place and changing the prefix.

Another problem is that you're presupposing that the products you interact with are designed in a whole number of feet, and then you subdivide from there. I don't see this as true at all; things come in all sizes like 2'5", how are you going to divide that into thirds?
The qualities of sets that arrays don't have (and vice versa) are irrelevant to the point of neither being implicitly representable in XML.

You're either providing complex objects as properties or you're providing a list of complex objects. Worse, you can have a combination of both. Without a schema it is not possible to infer whether either or both is happening.
>This current trend of "we have too many old people in government" is really code for "the people in government don't represent my views", which is largely a generational opinion.

That is not "code", its a consequence. Generational divides include divides in culture, education and understanding of the world. If one generation disproportionately controls the government, of course they will not represent the views of any other generation currently living. No one is trying to hide this or pretend it isn't the case.
Yes, that's another advantage. If the locale decides they don't want you, or if your PPA expires and you can get a better rate elsewhere, hoist anchor and head on over.
Not sure if this is a good or bad signal. The others don't offer free no CC plans because as soon as you get even the smallest bit well known you get swamped with spammers signing up.
Any particular reason why the country which prides itself as the world's largest economy, largest democracy, and a technological leader shouldn't reasonably have a world-class transportation system?
I can accept Postel's Law as being a great idea for fairly low-impact things like markup languages. XHTML is a good example here: it turns out it wasn't an awesome idea, because if the author of an HTML file forgets to close a tag, I'd rather the browser make a best effort at displaying a document that might be a little janky, than show me nothing at all.

But if we're talking configuration files for applications? No. Absolutely not. If I get anything even slightly off, do not under any circumstances respond by launching the application into an unpredictable state. Fail immediately and tell me why. Same principle applies for RPC messages.

The reductio ad absurdum here is weak typing. If Postel's Law were actually a generally applicable law, then PHP4 would be widely considered to be the pinnacle of language design. I think most people would agree that it's closer to the nadir.

But still... context matters, XHTML was a mistake. Which implies that Postel's Law is true in at least some contexts.
Not necessarily getting scammed, but getting a bit of what they deserve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsLJZyih3Ac
I agree, but it seems like many people are incapable of thinking this way. See the number of people who say that new star wars ruined old star wars, "ruined their childhood" even. How? How can a new movie ruin an old movie? Causality does not work in that direction. But some people think it does and the illogicality of their position doesn't change the fact of how they genuinely feel.
Updating the status page in the middle of the incident is always an art. Sometimes you can truly define impact and update the status page without weak language but other times you can't.

You still want to notify customers they may be seeing issues even if you aren't confident on the percentage of impacted customers yet.
>I see a handful of identical mega corps with a government protected monopoly (regulations + access to airports)

I see the opposite: new, brightly-colored airlines seem to pop up every year, each offering substantially the same thing: sub-$100 direct tickets to Florida (and probably other) destinations from low- and mid-tier airports. And they're all catering to the people who these rewards programs are shedding.
My family has been affected by another devastating disease with a clear genetic marker, Huntington's Disease. If a parent has the genetic mutation that causes the disease, each of their children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting the mutation. Unfortunately, while there has been some work to stave off and lessen symptoms, there is no cure, which makes it a very difficult decision for someone to be tested for the mutation.

In both of these cases (genetic ALS and genetic HD) I think right now the best we can do is have realistic expectations about what physicians, nurses, aides, and others on a person's care team can do, and also to recognize that there are going to be a lot of questions that don't have great answers yet.

Ultimately, I expect that the greatest breakthroughs for these diseases will come through researchers who only indirectly work with patients, but I have the utmost respect for front-line health care workers who accompany these patients through a terrible situation.
Yes ... it's very possible for DataDog costs to exceed the cost of the infrastructure that it's monitoring (e.g. AWS). I've seen it happen.

(If you aren't careful and aren't managing your costs, but I suppose that's true of almost anything =)
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And moving away from reliable nuclear
I liked it, as a huge Le Guin fan. It wasn't quite Ghibli level, but it wasn't that far off. It got the heart right, and it was a lot better than the average movie imo.

Adapting books to film is really, really hard, as is animating, and directing, etc.

Le Guin was critical of the movie, for valid reasons, but I don't think she hated it. Which, being fair, is an accomplishment.
> forcing them to show up in court and air their dirty laundry in front of the judge

And showing up in court has costs, which are not guaranteed to be covered in any award/payment order, and even if you win there is still the matter of actually collecting. If it's all a matter of a few hundred dollars, most businesses will just write it off.
I don't think it's a play on words at all. It's a straightforward use.