skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is Microsoft has two products in this space but everyone hates Azure DevOps which is supposed to be a JIRA competitor and GitHub is where all the momentum is. They'd love to ditch having to maintain ADO and GitHub long term but that means crapifying GitHub so they can migrate their ADO customers. At the same time they're hoping to pull Atlassian customers that use JIRA and GitHub to ditch the latter and just entirely be on GitHub.

What well end up with is a service that sucks to use for all cases.
https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/blob/stable/fla...

Their flake.nix indicates they use Haskell to generate cross compiled shared library for Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and Windows.

I am not expert in Nix but at high level I can see they are indeed using Haskell.
It will return, and very soon. 100% sure.
They just need to turn it into something they can control through a local "broker" while maintaining some compatibility with the platform; 170 million users willing to be indoctrinated by government propaganda are hard to ignore.
And Pandoc's author is not even a software professional. He's a philosophy professor. :^)
Out of the box it does have support for a good deal of SEO things. Tags, speed, basics. Which are a hassle to get right with WordPress for example.
> I know for a fact you get propaganda videos shoved in between your feed of 'good stuff' that you enjoy watching

No idea how you could know this. I have never seen any concrete evidence that there are propaganda videos interlaced into people’s feeds. Everything I have heard is hypothetical. “China could” do this or that. If there were anything more than conjecture it would be huge news.

Casey Newton said on Hard Fork that he started a new account recently as an experiment and didn’t mention anything about China propaganda videos.
> It seems to me like this disqualifies Matrix from consideration for "public infrastructure" IMHO.

Please don’t conflate Synapse with Matrix. Yes, if a govt has a “we must only spend money on pure open source products” policy then they won’t buy Synapse Pro. Perhaps they’ll end up scaling by running hundreds of separate smaller FOSS instances instead. Perhaps other server implementations will step up as FOSS (and probably promptly be undermined by the same freerider problem).

> It would have been better if the differentiation between the paid and free versions wasn't scaling, but some other features not critical for public use (or provided as a non-free plugin), but something that enterprises would consider useful.

We’ve tried that (https://element.io/server-suite) and it hasn’t been enough.
There is a social game that was popular here when I was a teen.

It was called "Werwolf" and I hated it so much that I stopped participating after one game IIRC (I was very fun at parties).

Reading up on it, it drew from the mentioned "Mafia" idea mentioned here.

Would have never known, interesting submission.
That's a leadership issue
War is peace, peace is war.
Historically the US has been always behind the curve when it comes to personal online privacy and security threats compared to Europe(and it's not like we are doing a good job at all, Europe is pretty shit as well), but here, today, I am utterly jealous of the US. Let's hope the EU commission gets their shit together and follows soon.
it's over for this form democracy. How can it survive when foreign powers can influence elections with one update of an algorithm? A document written 200 years ago does not protect against the communication media we have today. I wish it were different, but we do not have the luxury of abstraction I am afraid
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos have been putting their heads so far up into Trump's rear they are probably looking out of his mouth by now. There is absolutely zero chance for actual democratic systems to emerge in a country where the top 1% own 35% of literally everything there is to own, cronies in the government, and apex corporations mended to the will of an 80 year old convicted felon
Circa 1968 America:

We have a TV problem, more specifically, lots of coffins on TV problem.

Circa 2003 America:

We have TV problem, a media problem, specifically coffins all over the media problem
We stupidly thought they wouldn’t saw off the branch they’re sitting on. But they did.
Why?

In both ways, users do it voluntarily, by agreeing with terms of use. You don't have to use those platforms.
All words only gain meaning through common use: where two people mean different things by some word, we influence each other until we're in agreement.

Words about private internal state don't get feedback about what they actually are on the inside, just about what they look like on the outside* — "thinking" and "understanding" map to what AI give the outward impression of, even if the inside is different in whatever ways you regard as important.

* This is also how people with aphantasia keep reporting their surprise upon realising that scenes in films where a character is imagining something are not merely artistic license.
Yeah, at a level like GDI+, CoreGraphics, XWindows hardware surfaces,....

This isn't really what real-time graphics is all about in modern times.

This is,

https://youtu.be/AV279wThmVU?si=Ou04h5z0Mju7kiJ0

The demo is from 2018, 7 years ago!
A shame about naming.

If Synapse "Pro" isn't synapse, it should really be called something else.
> WASM nowadays has become quite the monstrosity compared to NaCl/PNaCl

It's really the other way around, NaCl/PNaCl was quite the monstrosity that didn't fit into the browser runtime environment at all and required completely separate APIs to access 'platform features' - while access to existing web APIs had to go through an incredibly slow and cumbersome messaging layer - e.g. the people complaining today that WASM doesn't allow direct DOM access would have a complete mental breakdown with NaCl/PNaCl ;)

In a way, WASM is also an evolution of PNaCl (which was also a CPU-agnostic bytecode, but one that couldn't be standardized because it was an adhoc subset of LLVM IR).
My X feed is FUBAR.

My feed was tech-only. Real people publishing real stuff.

Last year X started occasionally showing some random content like Reddit, I'd mark them as "not interesting" and move on.

Since last month there's no tech content by tech people, there's exclusively junk worse than on Reddit's homepage. No amount of "not interesting" will fix it. Oh, there's porn now too.

I stopped opening X altogether.
Its a reality TV based Werewolf game
Ask HN: Does a 'low performer' label worsen outcomes for laid-off tech workers?
When Meta and Microsoft recently announced performance-based layoffs, it ignited an online debate about the implications of publicly labeling someone a "low performer" — a term steeped in negative connotations. Could this label further harm the prospects of laid-off tech workers?
Wesley Huff Discusses Ancient Manuscript Evidence with Joe Rogan [video]
He might say that, but I think in fact the opposite is true. The models are getting commodified. The real value lies in distribution (access to customers) and consumer product skills.
Maybe I'm not so bad for using "superfluous" braces quite often, although this is not specifically the reason why I do.
They had… bank-like things, but in general they’d have been quite local; if your city is in the process of being destroyed, the prospects of your bank are poor.
for-get-hoe
Always interested in alternatives. What do you suggest?
What is the economics lesson though ? I figured they were talking about bounded rationality which the article touches upon in the last paragraph. But it would've been nice to get some confirmation within the article itself.
Looks interesting, this didn't turn up in my search when I was looking. Thanks for sharing.
> Imagine if CBS, NBC, FOX, and ABC were all owned and operated by the government of America’s greatest adversary—that’s essentially what we’re dealing with.

That analogy falls apart by making use the hyperbole of comparing ownership of one social media application to the ownership of all major broadcast media television channels. Or is the U.S. so socially conflicted and institutionally fragile that it not handle one single social media application being owned and operated by 's/the government of/a private company from/' its greatest adversary?

The broadcast TV analogy may be more applicable if Instagram, X, YouTube and Twitch were all operated by the oligarchy of a single geopolitical adversary... which arguably could become the case for the E.U. from tomorrow 20th January 2025.
Because they were leaned on by Israel.
> So, the problem seems to be _foreign_ biased media and not biased media in general.

That literally is the purpose of the ban. It’s not like you have happened across some kind of novel “gotcha” here.
How did that influence look like?
This seems to be a good tagline for a HN audience that kinda clicks a link blind and wants to figure out what it is quickly and move on.
But it’s unclear to me why the Forgejo website should care about this type of visitor? Being a “forge” is likely well understood by anyone that is interested in installing this type of software (or they will figure it out because of the context that linked them to the page). None of the features you mention is a good discriminator, as essentially all forges have these features in one form or another, so an interested use will have to look at the details anyway. Being: “self-hosted, lightweight, easy to maintain” those are very important quick discriminators if you are looking at this type of software.
Not to mention

- the incredible overhead of each and every API call
- the nerfed timers that jitter on purpose
- the limitation of a single rendering context and that you *must* use the JS main thread to all those rendering calls (so no background async for you..)
About the framework homepage:
The first rule of Fight Club is: you don't mess with the scroll. No amount of JavaScript can recreate what my preferred OS and input device give me out of the box.

That aside, I love the idea. We can certainly use more tools like this in the Elixir ecosystem. I sometimes feel Phoenix has become the hammer we sort of use on everything, but maybe there are better ways (e.g. for more content focused websites).
We didn’t rewrite the slow parts in Rust, we rewrote the bits which let large deployments scale (workers) in rust. Normal Synapse perf work will continue as ever, if not faster given it might have more funding. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42752911
Can you imagine implementing regulations that are not for your safety?

All data that they collect are given by user voluntary, by agreeing with their terms of use. Instead of banning, educate about how data harvesting works and why it matters. No one is learning from censorship.
GEMV, which one could argue is a special case of GEMM.
Why Github and not Bitbucket?
yes i think it kind of looks that way I am afraid. US literally has an oligarch duly elected and assuming office in a few hours. We are in the era of robber barons, maybe similar to late 19th Century America, where J P Morgan was obviously the only man who mattered, despite the performative democracy.
You can do this all in the browser: https://dropnread.io/
HDL is fun and all, but actually choosing the physical layout and sizing of transistors seems like a much more fun puzzle.
It's not a stretch. For example a large fraction of Chinese private companies have CCP committees embedded in them: https://www.seafarerfunds.com/prevailing-winds/party-committ...
Nothing equivalent in the USA.

China's rule of law is generally very weak. "Ultimately, no matter what the laws say, it would be difficult for any Chinese citizen or company to meaningfully resist a direct request from security forces or law enforcement, and the courts cannot be relied on to provide a remedy."
https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/what-the-national-intel...

This is particularly obvious with the number of senior executives of key Chinese companies who have simply disappeared, at least temporarily, when they displeased the government. Again, nothing comparable in the USA (yet).
starting to wonder if it should be “Element acceleration libs for Synapse workers” or something instead.
You mean hard in regards of pricing? Because otherwise it’s not really hard to buy enterprise gpus at all.
This is the main (maybe only?) criticism that can be levelled at Zuckerberg in this latest period of lay offs at Meta. Question is where this stigma will be felt most - probably at hiring manager interview, most recruiters at the top of funnel will probably still forward on ex-Meta employees, due to credentialism
Gee I wonder if el presidente will have personal editorial access...
i turned off the images, it’s under bandwidth saving settings but makes x much better and helps keep the alg away from memes also
"Yes, yes, that will show them... Fair play." In the background, the country burning.
And Al Arabiya isnt banned because...?
s/a month/a day
Just tried it, says it's fcked but I don't agree. There is zero political tweets on the feed analyzed, yet it says center left; it's basically just tech tweets.
It's as if Hamas wanted to make MLK Jr day one of hope, for done reason.
>Elon musk applying pressure in German elections

That doing an interview with a controversial politician is "applying pressure" and is seen as "a danger to democracy" (quoting German media) is all you need to know about the German media landscape and German politics.

>but can be run by a nonprofit or something

There are high profile celebs on German "state" television unironically being in favor of a state-run social network.
Most of that performance is nothing to do with whether workers are written in python or rust - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42752911. The hope is to fund maintenance for FOSS synapse, including core perf work, via Syn Pro stuff which makes the biggest impact for gigantic servers.
Does China have a first amendment restricting the abrdigment of all press and ? Was there are special carve out in the American first amendment for issues of reciprocity or for foreign media? No.

My biggest fear isnt China or Russia (like Im told it should be) but becoming like China and Russia. It's happening faster every day.

When the first and the fourth amendments are shredded then Putin and Xi Jinping get to say, with increasing truthfulness, "America is no better than us".
Icelandic turf houses: Laufas, Glaumbaer and others
DPDP is a watered down version of GDPR and is not as broad with its definition of personal data. Also for a privacy act, it does not have any directives on pseudonymization. But the worst part of DPDP is it makes it illegal for users to provide false information irrespective whether there is an intent to commit fraud. The jury is out whether one can be prosecuted for using an alias online or providing a fake location to an app.
Managed democracy.
This could be an option here; we haven’t thought about it yet.
Maybe, but the pronunciation of the forge part is essentially just the English one (at least much, much closer to an attempted German pronunciation).

The jo part is close to German though, so maybe this is why it’s not too bad for someone who knows English and German. And everyone else gets to dislike at least some part of it :-)
> - the incredible overhead of each and every API call

The calling overhead between WASM and JS is pretty much negligible since at least 2018:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/calls-between-javascript-a...

> - - the nerfed timers that jitter on purpose

At least Chrome and Firefox have "high-enough" resolution timers in cross-origin-isolated contexts:

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/cross-origin-isolated-hr-t...

...also, if you just need a non-jittery frame time, computing the average over multiple frames actually gives you a frame duration that's stable and exact (e.g. 16.667 or 8.333 milliseconds despite the low-resolution inputs).

Also, surpise: there are no non-jittery time sources on native platforms either (for measuring frame duration at least) - you also need to run a noise-removal filter over the measured frame duration in native games. Even the 'exact' presentation timestamps from DXGI or MTLDrawable have very significant (up to millisecond) jitter.

> - the limitation of a single rendering context and that you must use the JS main thread to all those rendering calls (so no background async for you..)

OffscreenCanvas allows to perform rendering in a worker thread: https://web.dev/articles/offscreen-canvas
Tiktok influencer income was never going to solve any economic problems in a meaningful way.
I like how the author didn’t try to be overly clever with it. They could’ve used Docker to install and isolate dependencies, Caddy or Traefik to serve the site and manage SSL automatically, maybe even k3s to run a mini cluster for HA, Tailscale to avoid manual port forwarding, Terraform for future auto-provisioning without hassle, or Ansible to prepare the machine and all that jazz.

Instead, they took the simplest possible route that works: installing the web server on bare metal, serving plain HTML and CSS, and using direct port forwarding via the router. This was a delightful read.
Lol, I had to report Facebook using the documented Facebook crawler UA, coming from Facebook ASN as a bot to them because they misclassified it. Don't expect too much from their global machine. I wonder if this case also included people manually reporting it...
With the downside of 99% of all devs not understanding anything. Sure haskell may be a great language, but even greater languages are accessible.
I don't think they are lamenting the fact that these things have reduced in price but rather significantly in quality as well.

There is something to be said about price reductions, but at some point the quality lowers to a point where it has become a waste of resources as the product you bought will seize working within a short time frame.

I've always made this unfortunate experience with shoes.
With good care, 100 Euro sneakers would last me about 2 years.
A pair of handcrafted leather shoes I bought 12 years ago are still going strong. While the leather shoes were almost 4 times the price, they've paid for themselves at this point.
> is this important rescheduling information or just nagging me to buy an upgraded seat

yeah, I feel like airlines (and other companies) get away with declaring emails as transactional that are 80% just promotional material.
And even then it affects us all and distracts us from the work we actually want to do.
You know that there is no Facebook in China? The same for Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
Even Google Search is not available in China.
And not because those companies didn't want to work in China, simply China forbade them to do it.
Funny thing, even TikTok in China is blocked... Chinese audience have Douyin from ByteDance.
So it isn't like this that "bad US is doing something to poor Chinese company"
ShellCheck is an essential part of my projects' CI, couldn't do without it!
And yet last time I mentioned this on HN I was met with disbelief and straw man arguments. How times change online.
Beijing understands very well how TikTok can be used. It’s been banned in Hong Kong since the 2019 protests.
Some people just hate their own government so much, they think any other government would be better. Including the known bad guys of the era.

Usually this does not work out that well. Point in case - Central Europe after WWII.

Chinese astroturfing is a thing too, but in many cases it is legit naive people.
After using nginx and caddy for some time I can't fathom going back to apache config files.
> I know for a fact you get propaganda videos shoved in between your feed of 'good stuff' that you enjoy watching,

I have been using TikTok for months and I didn't see any propaganda at all. I only get content about my interests (3d printing, game dev, tech stuff). Sometimes it shows random stuff like animals and camping and funny videos or something but nothing like heavy politics at all.

I guess if I started engaging with "slightly political stuff" and started searching for it, it may be possible to get that kind of content, but yeah it's definitely not shown to me.

I expect that to stay unless I start to show intentions to the algorithm that I care about that kind of content.
Secondhand bookshops are not usually owned by billionaires. Neither are the things charity shops sell in general.

There is a loss to customers because instead of knowledgeable owners, charity shops are run by volunteers of varying quality.

I know of one case (through a volunteer at a charity shop) in which someone threw out a book of 19th century prints because they "threw out all the old rubbish". That would not happen in a commercial shop. I think its less likely to happen now that there are charity bookshops that tend to take the more valuable books, but I would not say it never happens.

Most importantly, the ability to avoid paying rates reduces the incentive to let the shops out, reducing supply and raising rents. IN many cases owners would rather have empty premises than let at lower rents and removing a cost of doing so makes this more attractive. The higher rents this causes that give chains such a big advantage over the small businesses they have largely replaced.
Yeah, he's gonna save it by forcing them to sell it to X, Meta or to Truth Social.
As a writer, he can make sure that he crafts a situation so that they is unambiguous. I have tried using it in my personal life only to stumble on whether they is one or many.

That's why I settled on borrowing a word that has proven its mettle

(Edit: I used "he" here because William Gibson seemed to identify as a guy, but Gibson's gender is completely irrelevant to this.)
"an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" is solution to you?

Respect doesn't mean that you have to agree. If you believe that something is wrong, use arguments, educate, inform... It's hard to implement pathological behaviour in well informed and educated society. Fragile society, however, is easier to be manipulated with and lead to hate, violence and wars.
The “Chinese arm” of ARM wasn’t even sold; it just went renegade and stole everything from the parent.
Shared blocklists are older than social media; in particular see USENET killfiles, which were often shared. More recently, you had user-made shared blocklists on Twitter until Musk broke the API. There’s nothing particularly new about them, though having them as a convenient first-class feature is somewhat new.

They help make Bluesky usable; for instance I subscribe to one which nukes transphobes, because, really, I do not have the patience to listen to their One Joke anymore, thanks. And another which warns on people with AI-generated profile pics (these are virtually always some form of scammer, or, worse, AI evangelists).

The blocklists are not mandatory.
Not really. As I understand it, WASM offers no facility to unwind the stack which is needed for tracing garbage collectors. The only solution here is to manually write your own implementation of the stack on the heap and force all data to live there instead of in registers. This is a huge performance penalty.
Define "adequate".
I've been waiting so long for this. Finally, we can have Epics that are not a pain in the ass!
I think another thing that has changed is that big business is less suspicious of open source and are less likely to feel that all the software they use has to be licensed from someone.

I think it has dawned on people that it is impossible to avoid using open source.
> Cool. Now move forward.

They are trying, but only seem to go backwards. See Windows, Android, iOS, Teams for examples.
Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain