skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Fediverse is always described with that interconnected diagram where everything talks to each other over ActivityPub. But I never see that in practice.

Not sure what you mean by this—it definitely comes up a lot in practice. The top story on HN right now is an example of this in practice—it's a post from social.hackerspace.pl, which has been shared to all of the users followers on different servers. You can take a quick look at the list of reblogs on that post to see how many different servers users use: https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111528162462505087/reblog... I count 17 different servers in the first 20 users listed. Many of these are deployments of Mastodon or Akkoma, but they're all completely separate servers talking to each other over ActivityPub

> For example: If I have a mastodon.social account, how does that work with pixelfed.social or tube.jenna.net?

You can use your account and client on mastodon.social to follow accounts on tube.jenna.net and pixelfed.social. These accounts are displayed inside of the mastodon.social UI. You don't "sign up" for those instances in any way, they're just an integrated part of your following feed.

> How do the clients handle the fact that they are different services?

There is no special logic needed from clients. For Mastodon specifically, the local server that you're following from will handle the logic of translating the ActivityPub JSON sent by other services into the more limited "Mastodon API" format that clients expect. This has pros and cons—it means that clients are able to handle a more limited and predictable set of posts, but it also means that some remote content gets "squished" down into that format, just like e.g. viewing a blog inside of an RSS reader. Other clients generally use their own similar domain-specific API format
Yes. It is exactly that.
> How do you figure? This just strikes me as insecurity.

You could say that about any kind of criticism related to someone's tone, and nobody could prove you wrong. I'm just sharing my own opinion about the quote.

But considering the other comments on this thread, it's fair to say that my opinion is shared by many other people here - so either we're all insecure, or my quote really has a certain unpleasant tone that reeks of blame.
Israel investigates claims of short-selling before Hamas attacks
I mean, maybe?

If the weatherman is consistently wrong, is it me who is experiencing different weather wrong, or the guy who made the prediction in the first place?
If you are using a collateral, you and your bank are basically valuing it and realising some gain from that value.
> MTN DEW RAID will be providing streamers at all levels – from casual gamers to the pros - with the chance to supe up their audiences – that’s the prize! However, in order to spread the word MTN DEW is partnering with influencers, as well as existing brand partners, to showcase the RAID program and encourage their followers to join the RAID.

Paying with exposure Wow. and wtf does "supe" even mean here?
they most likely already do this and honestly it's really really scary
So can anyone explain why this will possibly take 20 years to prove/disprove? We don't have the current level of accuracy necessary to test it, but might if we work through issues over the next 20 years or so?
Are they struggling or are they just not doing it? Their budgets go up every year regardless. In fact their supporters often and effectively use their poor clearance rates as justification to increase their budgets and headcount.

Locally in chicago the police have been on a very obvious "soft strike" since the Van Dyke trial, where they only take actions that are personally fulfilling to them and then blame their lack of action on the DA not prosecuting.

IDK from what I've seen up close I wouldn't describe them as "struggling" with anything.
Not really... I don't even remember `about:config`. I know of its existence, but is it `config`, `:config`, or `about`, or ...?

So what I do is, I google, right? First page that comes up references how to fix the problem on both Firefox and Chromium-based browsers.

So on Firefox, I have to type the config page, then search for ocsp, then disable it. Then, I can finally access the webpage, but of course, I should remember to re-enable it after I'm done on the misconfigured server.

On Chrome, I can fire up an incognito window, type a magic keyword, do what I need, close the incognito window and go back to default.

Honestly, the latter is a vastly better experience in my world (I do backend/integration dev, mostly Python nowadays, probably a FE engineer will not care either way).
You can't (yet?) log in at other websites, but you can follow anyone from any fediverse service. I follow accounts from PixelFed and PeerTube on my own self-hosted version, which feels very web native and self evident when you get used to it.
Where Optane could've been used: distributed storage. The whole game there is about how fast can you ack the writes while writing as far away as you can. The company I worked for in this specific area had used pmem when that was available for that specific reason.

I'm no expert on costs of these things and especially wouldn't dare to predict how these costs could've behaved in the future, but my guess would be not that the technology had no use, rather that it was too expensive for what it was good at, and the second best was cheap enough to warrant choosing it over Optane.
Thanks for the detailed answer and adding information about taxes! I've to adjust to the cost of living but at first glance that seems still quite higher than what are practiced in my country, especially with some experience.
> Once you learn that stack in your junior years, you are stuck on that path for the rest of your career.

That's not true while employed, since you can learn a new stack/tool/tech as part of a new project. People do this all the time, on spectrum from "choosing the right tool for the job" to "CV-driven development" (depending on how much you'll screw over subsequent maintainers).

I know many devs don't have the luxury of making big decisions for new projects; but there can still be opportunities to automate or improve some of your day-to-day tasks (e.g. scripts, aliases, sanity checkers to make sure you never do that thing again, etc.). For that sort of stuff you can use any technology you like, either as a quick, low-stakes way to learn something new, or an opportunity to use something you know from outside of work (admittedly this is more suited to using new languages; rather than e.g. a Web framework or server orchestration solution!). You can legitimately put that on your CV as a technology you've used commercially to solve problems, and that may be enough to get past HR filters. You can also share such things internally, to bolster your reputation as "someone who knows foo" (e.g. I was once given a task at work because there was an existing R package for what we needed, but nobody else knew R; whereas I once wrote a three line R script years ago!)

Unfortunately for this thread: that sort of tactic only works when in employment.
Same thing happens in the US. Post a tweet too critical of the government, and you might get investigated and added to a no-fly list. Background checks can reveal investigations, so you may end up not getting a job because the government didn't like your tweet...
I'll even give them a deal. I'll run the company into the ground at twice the speed for half the money.
Very interesting. I was under the impression that Apple used hardware keys to validate iMessage accounts. But it seems that this is able to talk directly to Apple without and Apple hardware? In the post it just says that you need to send and receive a SMS to register.
It's amazing how much wealth has been created over the past decade. it's overlooked by the media, or it's understandable how many could think overwise given that negativity tends to dominate the headlines or political rhetoric about 'America being in decline', but there is so much wealth even compared to a generation ago after adjusting for inflation . Blame the huge post-2009 bull market in stocks, high salaries, persistently low interest rates, cheap mortgages, surging home prices surging, etc, How long is this sustainable, hard to know, but I would not be betting against it.

At the same time, though, many people are priced out of this. They cannot afford homes or stuck with low-paying jobs that are insufficient to cover basics.
> the focus should be on the prevention of asymmetric power imbalances in societal transactions

The rules governing social systems built to obscure the jungle (e.g., political, legal, and penal systems) can always be trumped by that which they were chosen to tame. This is the unfortunate reality of our wetware.

> the thing people actually care about is the risk of bad outcome, not the actual data itself

"Bad" is subjective, no?

Is it good or bad if a father learns that his teenage son is not his own?
Good work, a nice site explaining the traceroute is very handy! I could see myself using this to explain what traceroute is for various technicians I'm training to maintain corporate networks.

(Now if only I could figure out how to enable traceroute to work on each hop from a given workstation through corporate cisco access switch, core switch, BGP tunnel to aws transit gateways, and eventually land at the VPC route table on the EC2 instance, then i might actually be able to call myself a network guy)
The Economist did an article about this as well and pointed out that math scores were already sliding downward in the US prior to 2019. They argued that COVID is only partly to blame for the decrease.

https://www.economist.com/international/2023/12/05/the-pande...
I would love to know if the checks were as brazen as presented in that post, or if the coordinate checks were obfuscated in some way. It sounds like they just assumed the operator would fold long before even getting at the code and couldn't even be bothered trying to make it look accidental.
I think they're using it as an instruction manual. Looking forward to Doritos deploying their piece.
Apple's flavor of RCS won't support Google's encryption extension
Honestly, I don't think any metric can fix it, and don't have any easy solutions to this. The problem is larger than academia, more endemic to society. The root cause is society's values have changed. Previously, prestige mattered for something. Now, people would rather listen to pop stars than learned individuals, and wealth is the only metric that matters.

As a result, typical professions that used to confer prestige, and for which prestige was supposed to be just reward, such as a professor, a medical doctor, a judge, are now mainly pursued for pecuniary reasons (money, job security). And because they're not doing it for prestige, they don't necessarily care about being right/correct. Playing the game to maximize the revenue streams is paramount. I happen to know a number of faculty who are quite proud of their multiple revenue streams. This would be unthinkable for an academic 50 years ago.
Sure thing! We have migrated to Strawberry for all our projects going forward, next time I have my hands in those project guts for maintenance I'll document some and send it on.
Nothing, but it says they have humans verifying the streams' content too, so presumably they would not choose to include you in the promotion.
Why in the holy hell as the world's governments taken such an interest in the sex lives of their citizens?

Why is it their business in any way, shape or form?

I'm not talking about excluded topics like CP. They are illegal and rightly so.
This isn't that. This is monitoring who watches what, regardless of how this is written, and lied about to get passed.
Singapore's tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare
Search has become a mass surveillance tool for the government. That is the article's point. If you think it's a nothingburger, you aren't aware of how often a person's Google searches are used to establish criminal intent in criminal trials. Also, they can be used to bolster probable cause for search warrants and arrests.

Also, check out geofence warrants. Essentially, the government can ask google for the IP's of people who searched for particular terms within a geographic area.

Of course, don't commit crimes but this behavior by the government raises the spectre of wrong search, wrong place, wrong time. This is one of the article's points, it causes people to self-censor and change their searches out of fear of their curiosity being misconstrued as criminal intent.
>This must be why in the 1950’s large swathes of Europe saw so many farmers fleeing their land to go live in the city and take up those new fangled factory jobs.

Did they though? Doesn't match my knowledge.

Most farmers at the time who owned plots of fertile land would rather break their backs working the land themselves (even if for thin margins of subsistence farming) rather than move to the cities to live in cramped conditions and break their backs working factory jobs for low pay.

The only country folk who migrated to cities to take factory jobs were mostly people who didn't own much land or any at all, making them relatively poor, so a factory job in the city was a better prospect than poverty in the country side working someone else's land. But land owning farmers would never downgrade by going to work factory jobs.
The 2% rule USDS use is taken directly from GDS (gov.uk), so that isn't what your old employer's policy is at all. They have to define reasonable, after all.
EU consumer protection laws generally do not apply to B2B contracts (although member states can gold-plate them to extend their scope).
What is science? Can you not apply it to artifacts whose inner workings are hidden?

As as aside, I was surprised at the repeated misspelling of GPT-4 and take it as a heuristic that this comment was likely written by a real human :)
How will they stop kids from running stable diffusion locally and generating any kind of porn they like?

I suspect that will be an unintended side effect of this authoritarianism.

The Conservative Party was previously the more libertarian option in the U.K. (effectively) two-party system.

I’m not sure how we push back against authoritarianism?
>Are there any prizes or perks for participating in MTN DEW RAID?

>Definitely! Participating streamers will have the chance to be featured on the MTN DEW Gaming Twitch Channel, the MTN DEW RAID branded shelf on the Twitch home page, and the Twitch homepage hero carousel. Streamers will also have a chance to receive a 1:1 coaching session with a professional streamer/content creator

If you volunteer to advertise their product, you have a chance to win exposure on mountain dew's twitch gaming channel, which nobody should care about. They're not even paying you. This is for people who sell out before they even see a dollar.
You misunderstand. Responsibility cannot be avoided.

- power's out at your house. You should have bought a UPS.

- internet's out at your house. You should have a router with a backup connection.

- security exploit in the wild. You should have configured automatic updates.

- update repo changed URLs. You need to change the config.

- you enabled open signups, and now strangers are distributing MP3s from your images directory. You need to kill those accounts and change the config.

- you let your cousin have an account, and now he's in a flamewar with half of Australia (which he thinks is Austria, and also he believes is ruled by the Illuminati). You need to shut that down and talk to other admins about getting off of their blocklists...
The original strain was likely extinct by the time you got your vaccine. But take an extra booster for the same strain, that will fix it.
Wealth is a multiplier. If the kid is a bump on the log, they’ll be even more of one with more money. If they’re driven to succeed, they’ll be able to accomplish much much more with money that can fuel their endeavors.
I think the goal of attempting to reduce in-group bias is laudable. I generally think that any attempt to remove race as a component from any decision making is a good thing.

That being said, I think that if you plot, for example, the black and white American populations for things when it comes to language, interests, economics, education, culture in general, at the population level, these populations diverge pretty dramatically. So if you take a random black person and a random white person and say "go be friends," that is far less likely to be a compatible relationship than if you took two individuals of the same "race."

People seem to have problems keeping these thoughts simultaneously. Not being friends with somebody on the basis of their race: bad. Being more likely to be friends with people who happen to share your superficial characteristics because the populations associated with those superficial characteristics happen to be pretty different: fine.

As Thomas Sowell has essentially said in virtually every book he's written: it doesn't make sense to take two populations that do not behave the same way and then expect them to produce identical outputs. It doesn't make sense to slap the label of racism on that delta.

Attempts to align the circumstances/behaviors etc of different populations, should, in theory, reduce the delta. I think in some cases, it's commendable, and in some cases, it's fundamentally authoritarian and functionally "cultural erasure."
An Ode to "I Hate Myself and I Want to Die"
What's a predictive interval?
I guess we disagree on why in this instance it's not already a better place.

I argue it's a great system right now. Companies can choose how much risk they want to take on based on how much trust and lies they are willing to try and sell or accept. At some point the truth will come out and you better hope you appropriately factored in your risk(s).

Without risk, there is no chance of reward, it's just how the system is. Other systems that try to remove the risk from the environment haven't had a very good track record so far.
On my device, there are no intermediate steps shown between my device and the server. Just FYI.
I'm not sure what you mean by this.

Are you trying to say a school should always lose money? Or that they should always spend exactly as much as they earn?

Either way, it cost Harvard way more than $500 million to operate for a year.
I'm reading this tweet as saying "you can't write a paper by prompting an LLM in these ways" rather than "you can't write a paper characterising the impact of prompting an LLM in these ways".

I'd agree the former won't get you a complete anything (longer than ~30 lines) by itself (90-95% cool, but with some incredible errors in the other 5-10%).

I'd also agree that the latter is worthy of publishing.
But how would you profit off of it? In the case here the company profits by forcing trains to use first-party workshops.
The three big problems with Python:

* It's slow. 'nuff said. No the fact that Numpy exists doesn't change that.

* Lack of static types. I mean, they do exist now which is fantastic, but there are still far far far too many projects not using them. And lots of code that can't be statically typed (e.g. lxml).

* The infrastructure and module systems are a total mess. Literally nobody understands Python imports.

There's also the fact that Python code is generally lower quality than in other languages (except maybe JS) because it's so popular with beginners.
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Phonetic spelling of "Soup up" I guess.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soup%20up

> These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'soup up.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors

If you trust AI.
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If we want consistency with international investments, yes.

Related but different point, using homes as massive wealth stores probably isn't ideal for society. It invites all sorts of nasty NIMBYism.
Wasn't this 5s delay for Firefox only debunked
The way I understand it: If another person's node connects to your node, your node can stop relaying certain blocks to them. And if everybody stops relaying those blocks to them, then those blocks will not reach them. So in a way, your node can do something a bit similar to "voting" in this situation.

But does a node on a lonely notebook have any real world impact? Do actors who accept Bitcoin payments connect to random nodes?

If so, what prevents someone from running one million nodes on a single laptop and "encircle" such an actor? There is no proof of work involved in running a node, right? So what gives a node any meaning or voting rights?
I think they're playing netizens over this one, because they know this comment will come up and everyone will laugh and associate that feel-good emotion with their brand.
I still do the Spamcop thing diligently. Heck if I know whether it does any good, but it's not a big effort and if it helps in a few cases, why not. A surprising amount of the spam and phishing mails I get come through major providers: Gmail, Amazon, Outlook, Sendgrid, etc. – I'd hope they actually do something (getting blacklisted can still be a very costly thing, I heard).

I also report all phishing sites I find to hosts, domain registrars, and Google+Microsoft blacklists. A similar service to Spamcop for that purpose is Phish Report. There, it's a bit easier to measure success. A surprising number of hosts are very quick to kill reported sites.

As for the blacklists… when I report ridiculously obvious phishing sites such as PayPal logins hosted on "verify-paypa1.business", usually the site is blocked on Edge around 15 minutes after I report it to Microsoft, but is often still reachable without warning on Chrome two or three weeks after I reported it to Google…
>people of higher SES do not want to mix with people of middle and low SES.

To some extent the opposite is also true, because spending time with people with higher SES might cause a discomfort/decreased self-esteem or simply expose the asshole-side of elites which quite often appears in face of "paupers".
"Let me see your O face!"
Why Don't Self-Interested Arguments Against Helicopter Parenting Deter Parents?
You could also have separate marketing and compatibility release numbers.
+1. That would be insanity and needless. Most people are exposed to more things like this, outside the home.
Seems like the trains were manufactured by a European corporation so probably not lol.
That was fake news, like the hospital bombing.
Yes, from the FAQs:

What does "pwned" mean?
The word "pwned" has origins in video game culture and is a leetspeak derivation of the word "owned", due to the proximity of the "o" and "p" keys. It's typically used to imply that someone has been controlled or compromised, for example "I was pwned in the Adobe data breach". Read more about how "pwned" went from hacker slang to the internet's favourite taunt.
Checkout this map of outdoor art in Amsterdam.

https://amsterdam.kunstwacht.nl/plattegrond

A lot of them are small adornments to housing, one large area of which (Apollobuurt) was built as social housing 100 years ago.