skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're maybe forgetting that the goal of Mastodon, or any federated (as opposed to distributed) system, is not to have every single user run and administer their own instances, but rather to enable users to freely select from a wide variety of compatible interconnected peers.

> People don't want to moderate themselves, they want a larger power to do it for them.

I think people mostly want a smaller power to do it for them, or at least a "smaller than The Platform, or The Government". In the case of Mastodon, I can find a smaller instance with a handful of moderators who I trust, and let them curate that instance. If I later find that they have abused that trust I can disassociate with them and move to a different instance, and all of my contacts or the general public on other instances remain unaffected.

If a user doesn't want to go to the effort of finding a specific instance that suits their desires for moderator activity, they can easily set up on one of the biggest instances (much the way one can easily set up a gmail account), while the design of the system still preserves their freedom to move to another instance if they later decide to do so (as I can choose to set up a yahoo or fastmail account, or even run my own server).

The basic experience for the average user can be just as moderated (well or poorly, by as many or as few people) as Twitter is, if a big instance chooses to do so, and the freedom of users is still preserved in a way that Twitter or Facebook cannot.
Indeed - Ethiopian (and other African) officials are regularly sent to China for training on governing. It's a very effective soft power tactic.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2016/07/05/po...
Placeholder comment to calculate the time before Google inevitably shuts this down.
I couldn't disagree more with your first sentence - being able to see all those functions in the first page of the code above the fold is what makes this 10 times easier to understand than any React or Angular component I have ever seen. In fact if a function doesn't fit on one line, it should be refactored into simpler functions until it does. Oh for a full UI framework like this made of single line functions - One Line Framework. However I am biased having used asm in the 70s, C in the 80s, java in the (late) 90s, and javascript in the naughties and teens.
I've been trying to get an internal referral; my wife has been hard to convince.
Around 2004, when tech writers were trying to explain why Friendster failed, and why MySpace was becoming such a power, there was a lot of writing about Metcalfe's law -- the more people who joined, the more valuable the network was. Then around 2009, when MySpace was dying, there were several articles that pointed out that the opposite was also true: the more that people withdraw from a network, the more that network loses value.

Perhaps we will see similar articles soon, making the point about Facebook. But I'm not expecting to see people abandon Facebook suddenly, the way people suddenly abandoned MySpace. Rather, the process this time seems a bit more subtle -- people realize that everyone they know (plus future employers) is watching, therefore they have to censor themselves, therefore they have to limit their engagement. The effect is the same, Metcalfe's Law in reverse, the network loses value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
As of the end of 2016, 24% of active internet users in America use Twitter. According to Twitter, they have 335 million active users, which is declining - thanks largely to declines in America [2]. One can only speculate on the percent of those that are bots. By contrast Facebook still has north of 2billion monthly active users. Both sites, on top of bots, of course also have an incentive to count as loosely as possible within the realm of plausible deniability.

Ultimately, if Twitter is the center of gravity of the internet, then Pluto must be the center of gravity of our solar system. The only reason I mention this is because I find people make the sort of arguments like you're making to convince themselves that they're not just wasting time on these platforms. I don't think there's been any shift in culture. There probably has been a shift in demographics as the internet has become much more common among less technically oriented individuals, but I think the real player is simply that these platforms are designed to be addictive, and they are. People keep using them even when they want to quit or do not find the time spent on them beneficial. Dopamine's a hell of a drug.

[1] - http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/11/11/social-media-update-20...

[2] - https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/27/twitter-loses-1-million-m...
Like all the other US providers, plans change frequently, very few have unlimited plans, and none that I know of have unlimited-speed unlimited-data tethering plans.

Currently, for $45, the best you can get on T-Mobile is 4GB of unlimited-speed tethered data, and for $70 you can get 512KB/s tethering. The cheapest mostly-unlimited data plan (including fewer limits for tethering) for one line costs $95. Older plans, which had cost less and had less limits, have been mostly phased out.

Another sad irony is to get the cheaper plan, you have to get a credit check, which dents your credit score, just to acquire a "pre-paid" plan. Also, T-Mobile's website seems to have been scrubbed of their prepaid plans, so probably you can only find details via interrogating their salespeople.
Or, alternatively, you can join our slack and drop us a line: https://goo.gl/jJvsaf
Ask HN: How do I learn how to handle feelings and problems
Feelings are new to me for reasons not relevant to the question. I am talking about feelings in the spectrum that aren't near rage, ecstasy or depression. There are many more feelings to be felt out there. Frustration, jealousy, envy, disappointment, hurt by someone else's words, disagreements.

There are other more complex combinations of feelings I haven't mentioned because I have not yet learned to recognize and identify them.

My question is relate to a problem in a relationship. I'm stuck right now in either total submission or over the top explosive reaction. I won't do the latter again.

Is there a resource or resources that can enable me to learn enough about the variations of feelings to identify and understand them.

Following that, how can I identify, address and resolve problems I have with other people either doing or not doing things I want. That includes dealing with someone not willing to change their behavior. In that case only I can change my perspective but I'm not sure how to do that either.

I sure wish there was an O'Reilly book on this.
> Instead the typical means to wealth is inheritance or luck of birth providing access to investment capital

The typical means to wealth is spending below one's means and investing the rest.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/style/fire-financial-inde...

And there's the book "The Millionaire Next Door" which shows that 85% of American millionaires are self-made, usually through spending below one's means and investing the rest.
On a related note, I can recommend Stanley J. Farlow's "Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers", which I bought around 2004 to better understand a fluid simulation paper I was trying to implement. (My Maths course ended with linear algebra and ODEs). Very good read with nice physics examples.
You say that it's infeasible but haven't given any reason other than "people don't want this" which is objectively untrue. Lots of people want this, and if you've been on Twitter lately you've probably heard that people are leaving the "bird site"[1] for one of the instances hosted by their community.

So I guess I'd need to ask you for your specific and unconventional definition of what "works." It works for plenty of people already.

[1] That's mastodon slang for Twitter.
Lately I have been looking for a practical (not too much theory) book on how to model problems with differential equations, with lots of examples. I imagine I'd plug them into Wolfram Alpha to get a solution.

Does anyone have recommendations?
> suggesting it to others

When majority of power users stop suggesting it to users around them, Firefox has no future anymore.
We used the Boyce and DiPrima book back when I was an electrical engineering student (Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems https://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Differential-Equations-Bou...).

I remember it was an excellent book with many great examples and correlation with physics topics like mechanics, waves etc. Too bad our other mathematics books weren't at this high standard :/

Also, I really don't think that such topics can be self-studied. It seems really difficult to me to understand such topics without a teacher!
They found the plastic trays to be the worst.

> Of the surfaces tested, plastic security screening trays appeared to pose the highest potential risk, and handling these is almost inevitable for all embarking passengers.
I love Facebook - or perhaps, I'm addicted to it - and have been for many years. I recently quit using it temporarily for a variety of reasons, and realized a few ugly things. First, it amplifies my own tendency to be argumentative. "Someone is wrong on the Internet!" seems more true on FB than anywhere else. Second, when I did go back, I realized I was just endlessly scrolling - a behavior the UI encourages - looking for anything interesting in the sea of memes, selfies, and nonsense.

Now, I allow myself back on only from a computer at home. I've removed it from my phone. It's still bad, but it's less bad. It saddens me, because I do like keeping up with old friends and new (it's especially great to see people that I lost contact with decades ago, and to keep up with the lives of my sisters and nieces and nephews some).

In the place of all that FB time, I've developed a love affair with my Kindle. I carry a paperwhite with me, and also the Kindle app on my phone, so I have two books going at once. It's so much better for my mind!

Today's two books: Strange Stars: How Science Fiction and Fantasy Transformed Popular Music, by Jason Heller, and The Better Angels of Our Nature, by Steven Pinker.

So yeah, the "value they get from reading" matters a lot. And Facebook has poor value relative to the addictive qualities and bad social habits they design into it. When I came back after my hiatus, FB put me through a quiz, and in an open answer section, I said flat out that the addictive nature was a serious problem. A little hook is good, but not too much! I think I said they should be selling candy, not heroin.
Those details are important, though. If what you are eating is increasing your hunger levels, most people are going to go with the built-in hunger, rather than whatever their app is telling them they should be eating. Bet on millions of years of evolution over reason every time.
Nonsense.

> Every single release contains a lot of nasty bugs fixed in various places.

Oh please. "Nasty bugs fixed in various places"? You're not replying to your mum here.

Nothing, ever, should be forced down anyone's throat. Your attitude is what is making software become some kind of time-locked online service, even when it's installed on our machines.

I will update software when I choose to, not when some commercially driven product manager decides to.

How can you be so naive at the motivation behind taking away control of software installs on your machine? You think they're doing it to "keep you safe" because "your safety is their number one priority". Wow.

Go ahead and let tech giants control your life at the granular level, but I will choose to control software updates on my machine, thanks.
Apple is also distrusting Symantec CAs which started in Aug 2018 - fully by Fall 2018

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208860
Or lives up to its name.
Insane!

Great write up though. Appreciated.
Official name of the one line per function framework is FOOL - Functions on one line.
YouTube Hashtags – Why It Might Not Make Sense to Marketers
I think it's much deeper than "individualist streak in American culture".

Western Europe in the last 1000 years or so has been a very unusual place... one aspect of which is having nuclear families not extended ones. Because (crudely speaking) the catholic church wished to diminish alternative power structures, such as clans. This led to an unusually open society, which had many benefits... with generally higher levels of trust among strangers.

But it has some costs, too. Like not having tight connections for bootstrapping motels in a foreign land.
Ok, now what if I were to tell you that email itself is a federated system, exactly the same as Mastodon.

All of your questions can be answered with "what does our currrent email system do?".

Sure, most people don't run their own email system. But some do. And you are not forced into a singular option that everyone is required to use.

Despite what people might claim, Hotmail, or numerous other email options are all almost as good as Gmail. Having competing options is good enough, as if you get banned from one, you can move to another (with some friction, obviously).

On expense, well same answer, what does email do? Yes, it is probably more expensive for all these different email servers to exist, but clearly that's OK, as they exist right now.

Now, seeing as tweets and social media posts don't seem like that much more of a difficult problem than email, imagine if those things were federated as well? This doesn't seem to hard to imagine happening.
That's not what I'm talking about, here. The number of shares isn't necessarily going down. Its the crappy way that most startups handle the awards and the outstanding shares, making it so that the only people who actually get anything out of them are the founders and the investors.
When I first joined Facebook, I used it like a typical social network back in the day (added as many friends, acquaintances, coworkers, etc as I could), with very surface-level interactions (pokes, shared cows and sheep with contacts, etc).

I would post interesting articles I read and make really lame quips about life or what I was doing.

Later, after I got married and had kids, I consciously experimented with posting photos of my kids. Engagement on my posts shot up. This led me to gradually phase out article sharing and life quipping in favor of kids' photos.

I still consumed interesting articles shared by contacts though. And the curated news that Facebook offered, even though I realized it had a risk of being an echo chamber.

Eventually, I started weeding out people who fell below the level of a real-life friend, because I didn't want to share family photos with them. Facebook became a place to share kids' photos and see kids' photos from friends and family.

Now, I mostly read reddit for interesting articles and discussions. Some Facebook groups are decent for that, but they never quite match the reach and range of discussion that reddit does.

Facebook is now my family-photo-sharing service. And even then, I've begun to slow down my usage in favor of other mechanisms for sharing kids' photos.

Some of my actions were motivated by privacy concerns. Some by conscious experiments in engagement. And some by the utility, or lack thereof, of Facebook in general.

I wouldn't consider myself a typical Facebook user, but anecdotally, a decent number of friends have told me their interactions with Facebook have matched mine.
Readability doesn't work for me either, same short piece of text. Checking the error console, only a warning for some script of LinkedIn that didn't load, and all the network requests succeeded. Odd. You'd think if it's supposed to load dynamically (why'd you want to do such a thing anyway? It's not as if the text is as big as a JS library and they don't mind including those), it would at least throw an error if something failed.
It's open source. You can change this to say whatever you want if you're willing to run it yourself, or you can find a place that's changed it to something you think sounds better than "toot".
Heh. I don't own a TV. The only time it comes up is when cable sales people come to my door or stop me in a store. When I ask them if their service comes with a TV they always get this aghast look on their face. I don't know if it is because they can't imagine life without a TV or because I've totally thrown them off of their sales script so they don't know what to say next, but I've got to admit I do enjoy it.
a very strong taboo against lending friends or family members money for any reason.

This is true. I think we got it from the British.

Hamlet: Act 1, scene 3:

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be,

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry"
I know, but it does not keep people away. Or maybe just "too serious" people
>I hope to be wrong about this, but people simply to not want to put this much effort into online communities. If they did we wouldn't have FB, IG and Twitter already.

If the only people in my online community are people who are willing to put effort into online communities, that's fine by me. Part of why FB/twitter are so draining/unenjoyable is because literally everyone is there.
I had the same initial reaction, but the dictionary supports the idea that the everyday usage of sort means to group by category, not to order. I've probably just been coding too long as well.
I think a source implies an authoritative source and not an anecdotal source.
Exactly. Just about every organization I've worked for has gone through a consolidation phase where DNS registration and certificate issuance is consolidated and formalized.

You don't have to get very big before these issues surface and cause tons of problems and toil.
Massive opinionated opinion ahead: I like libraries that don't invent new types but just build around established ones. I think it's great that it uses numpy arrays and doesn't venture to (essentially) wrap an array of some kind and reinvent the wheel.
A submarine is subject to much higher pressure differentials than aircraft or spacecraft (and also from the wrong directions for easy repairs from the inside) and I wouldn't recommend relying on it for long.

The story was that the discovery was one of horror. Basically, it was a tragedy averted. Also, the tape was on the outside, but I forget the particulars.
> Have you tried Mastodon?

Yes.

> You still pay someone else to run the server (or not, if you prefer), you can just choose who you pay, and which server. Sending toots does not require that you set up your own infra, re: the email example.

Right, you either pay with your time or your money, as opposed to FB for which you pay nothing at all. Specialization of labor reduces costs, federation increases them.

> This is commonly asserted, but I’ve never seen much evidence for it. Was a direct democracy given a good run in the US at some-point?

It's never been technically feasible, though the main issue has changed from scale to security.

> I agree with you that Mastodon is unlikely to ‘take-over’ Twitter or Facebook anytime soon. But that wouldn’t be my criteria for success.

I can understand why that wouldn't be your criteria for success, but it is mine.
I was talking to my wise daughter and her boyfriend about the ugliness of FB, and they said their secret was to unfollow argumentative people and join a lot of shitposting and meme groups. She gets her daily fix of bunny memes and jokes about Dune, and she's happy.
Farrrrrrr from it. Humans don't behave perfectly rationally. Humans often behave badly, in fact. I think you'd agree businesses are just humans (as are governments). That means they get all the beautiful and ugly traits we bring to them. That's why a strong legal framework to prevent business/other humans from using coercion against you and I is a great idea! That is what government is for!
Resting on a massive assumption.. so really the opposite of solid math.
Priests felt the same way when the masses learned to read.
Interesting. My initial instinct is to compare them to MongoDB which IPO'd about a year ago. They seem to be doing quite well since, but then again, who hasn't in the tech sector?

I will say I very much enjoy Elastic's suite of products, I can't say the same for MonogoDB.
I mostly agree but I'm saying you're understating the case by accepting the AA opponent's false premise that AA means accepting objectively worse "diversity hires."
This was my understanding as well. The tight machining tolerances required simply didn't exist in his time.
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Slightly below that it says the opposite is true for women. Obesity increases as income decreases.
But there are only two languages with large demographics in the USA: English and Spanish. If the FCC created a regulation that said streaming services must support at least 30% Spanish, I think that would be an improvement, and it would also be easy for the streaming services to hit that goal.

Perhaps you could argue that smaller language groups should also be supported. According to the 2010 USA Census, there were 2.9 million people in the USA who spoke Chinese. I think proportional representation could be useful, though clearly you could not give each language group 30% of the streaming service. But if the regulation insisted that the movies streamed had to match the languages, proportional to the demographics of the USA, I think the streaming services would be the better for it.
You can't create a UI that makes everyone happy either.

For example, extensions that use the tabs WebExtension API are significantly more varied than the removed Panorama feature.
Indian food is labor intensive and uses expensive ingredients. Restaurants are also low margin businesses that don't scale well and are super risky, not something I'd advise someone to do unless they have a passion for it and ability to fail and carry on with life.

I have not been to a single Indian restaurant that can compare to a home cooked Gujarati meal, especially made by someone who grew up there.
I don't see what part of your link supports your statement. Losing 44% of 18-29s is massive, and I can't accept your assertion without data to support it.
Yes, having family members work for you for free is legal.

My accountant once encouraged me to try to get my family members involved in a business I ran just for that reason.
Ask HN: I wonder how performance reviews are done for astronauts in space?
I wonder how performance reviews are done for astronauts in space?

Context: Specifically, from a manager's perspective who works with in house employees, it's relatively easy to gauge a subordinate as they get to engage with them on a frequent basis but, for remote subordinates - this can be a challenge to gauge things such as: time management, attention to detail, career interests etc.,

Thought, this might lead to an interesting discussion.
Lessons from Chance the Rapper (Value Chains and Profit Pools)
And a few more too such as Pixelfed and PeerTube:

https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub