skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even after reading it several times, I could not parse that title, precisely because I kept interpreting "features" as a verb. Viewing the actual article yields the real headline, which makes more sense:

4 Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having

That "4" at the beginning makes all the difference!
I don't know when the term puppet was ever more appropriate than for Bush under Dick Cheney. (And then, only in certain policy areas).
I'm glad somebody got my point, lol.
You can be a part of a large or small instance and your consumption/conversation is not limited to users on that instance. You can follow people from other instances as well as scroll through a timeline that is posts/toots from across the fediverse (not just your local instance)
Most companies shouldn't need this information. I don't give my id to most businesses I visit in person. The ability for online services to "verify" me does not need to be easy and it doesn't need to be cheap otherwise it will just be abused.
That's true on paper, but is glossing over a huge issue: the Fediverse is strongly politicized. Mastodon instances are under pressure to not federate with undesirables, under threat of being defederated by others. As a result, you have one "primary" network of instances whose admins and members either subscribe to specific kind of political extremism, or are at least willing to acquiesce to it for the sake of the users to have anyone to talk to, and a forest of small clusters. The "primary" network and secondary clusters don't talk to each other, and associating yourself with the latter is a quick way to be booted off the former.

Technically, this is federation working as intended, but it's not as diverse and inclusive as it advertises - on the contrary, it's more like a HOA that has a right to ban condo owners from talking to each other.

It's a nice place to be when you're not into politicking, but then so is Twitter, so it's not that big of a win. A more compelling argument for Mastodon is that it's community-funded, so it's not out to sell your eyeballs.
Mastodon's one weird trick twits hate
Yes, there's a "Blank" option when voting, and there's also a "null" vote, which happens if you vote for a number that's not in the running (each candidate has a number. For example, in this running Lula is 13 and Bolsonaro is 22). Only valid votes are counted, so whoever gets anything over 50% of the valid votes win.
Yes, it's not supper obvious and that was a bad choice of words.

But it's also not hidden. I which I had the time to point out a (long) list of twitter tweets which paint the picture, but I don't have that. And there is also the problem that he (understandable) deleted some of his tweets. But pointing out a specific tweet is pointless as someone could always come up with some arbitrary reason why this specific tweet means something else. It's about the broader picture.

To name some examples:

- He is currently actively trying to undermine labor protection law (as well as contractual clauses he agreed to when buying twitter) by masquerading mass firings at twitter to be supposedly all based on failed performance reviews. But if you take a closer look at 1) `the method used for the reviews` and 2) `who is let of` (especially in context of him being a petty person and had personal beef with some of the people on twitter due to how he (verbally) attacked twitter in the past) it is very clearly that it's not related to performance. (But US labor protection law is at best bad joke, so...)

- His repeated stance against labor and/or buyer protection in other cases, too. Like wrt. Tesla factories.

- Him repeatedly abusing his influence to hinder improvements to public transportation, often buy pushing red hearing projects which do only improve the situation for a few wealthy people but can be used as an excuse to kill/hinder other public transportation projects. One of the examples would be his boring tunnel company promising fixing the traffic situation but instead build fast lanes for a few wealthy people while making is majorly harder to fix the traffic situation for the general public. (He knew what he was doing.)

It might not be obvious how this example matter. this

But they increase how companies can take advantage of the general population both in ways which reduce the money they effectively have and reduce other ways they can take political influence.

And they are just some random examples I can drop of my hat before going to bed which I remember good enough to write down, there are many more.
Looks like federation is the solution here: many not-so-big instances.
The job of SCOTUS is to make a decision.

Whether or not that decision has anything to do with the Constitution is anyone's guess. And in the case that their decision clearly defies the Constitution, there is nothing that anyone can do about it.

In other words, like every other part of the government, their real job is politics. The only difference between SCOTUS and Congress is that the former is conveniently shielded from public opinion.
I've read 45 of all 49 PKD novels on the Wikipedia page. It was a goal I set about 7 years ago. I tried to read the books in order, but had trouble finding some. His style goes from Twilight Zone / Amazing Stories, do thought-provoking alternate reality, to alternate people, to alternate "reality" which is different than what I said earlier. There is "alternate reality" where we are in a different timeline, or aliens, or different technology, and then there is reality that is just bent and distorted psychologically (VALIS, Palmer Eldritch, Martian Time Slip, ...). There's a big blob of boring books in the middle, in my opinion, like "We Can Build You", "The Crack in Space", and "Now Wait for Last Year". But what I've found most fascinating is watching his progression (descent) into darker and darker work. It was also a weird experience reading so much from one author, because after 5 books you start to see significant similarity and I wonder if that is why the middle part got so boring to me.
Elon Musk's link: https://www.smobserved.com/story/2022/10/29/news/the-awful-t...
The F-14 was a fantastic airplane. My favorite of all time (except for MAYBE the A-10, F-4, or the spitfire).

Unfortunately, it was too expensive to maintain and didnt perform a role that couldn't be performed by more advanced multi-role fighters (e.g. the F-16 and F-18) at the point it was retired. Similar to the A-10, really, in that the F-35 will likely take it's place.
Why waste time, say lot word when few word do trick? https://youtu.be/_K-L9uhsBLM?t=61
Constitutionality has everything to do with SCOTUS decisions, because de facto the US constitution means whatever SCOTUS says it does.

You can believe that SCOTUS has interpreted it “wrong” - but that’s just your subjective personal opinion, of no greater significance than that of anyone else.
May want to read this if you're interested in having your opinion changed by actual testimonials rather than just going with the tribal Spaceman bad line. https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
I am using sharp to transform jpeg to avif images.
The conversion also takes very long, for my images about 45s each.
Going by that logic, naturally grown food is Nazi-friendly because Nazis can just plant them in their backyard. Should people selling seeds/seedlings be criticized accordingly?

That whole argument seems like a badly disguised call for total surveillance.
> Affirmative action is the acceptable carveout

Well this is likely to change. Affirmative action is zero sum: it’s impossible without discriminating against some group on the basis of a protected class.
Clarence Thomas was a beneficiary of the “affirmative action” afforded to underqualified so-called conservatives in law schools, clerkships, judicial appointments, and the legal profession in general.

The Federalist Society is more or less an affirmative action program. It has gotten to the point now that ambitious law students pretend to to far-right ideological positions they don’t hold just because the competition for clerkships is so much easier among who suck up to these extremists.
Have you tried talking to a therapist about this?

It is very hard to give advice for an individual based on so little information. A good therapist will try to track down a possible source of the problems, or give tools to handle the situation.

Perhaps one source of frustration might be an overly rational approach to joy? Have you considered alternatives, such as religion, or certain strands of philosophy? In the grand scheme of things, it's not so clear cut that rationalism is the best approach to finding meaning in life.

Another option might be that you value something (curiosity) highly, but don't act towards developing it? Perhaps if you invest some time in a random subject (e.g. one of music, events, chess) you will learn new things and get rewarded for that, either internally or socially. That might spark some joy!

Good luck, you're not the only one who's had to struggle with this.
Ironically, Strange New Worlds features an episode that seems heavily inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas."

Whether that one includes massive plot holes, I cannot say.
> As a systemd hater, I have to say that I like the systemd approach here better than messing with iptables. The locality of behavior is nice.

Until someone new comes along and is not aware of this seemingly obscure feature and can't figure why traffic is not getting to the app: nothing in iptables, tcpdump shows the packets getting to the system… WTF?

Looking at a service's systemd unit file would be the last place I would think for network filtering configuration.

Or does systemd place the appropriate lines into iptables (or nftables nowadays) on your behalf?
You can also just close the tab and stop reading. "Antisemitic" doesn't automatically mean "the devil" either.
> Engage in regular exercise, cardio is great. Don't feel like it? Do it anyway, treat it like it's meds because in a very real sense it is.

This is not necessarily good advice, overtraining is a thing and actually causes depressed mood. Check heart rate variability to make sure you are rested enough to exercise.

People with depression should really try to keep inflammation low, and preventing overtraining is an important part of that.
If you call technicality the finding (confirmed by justice) of thousands of messages between the judge of the case and the prosecution plotting how to convict him despite nonexistent evidence, then yes.

The disgraced judge then immediately turned to use his new fame to enter politics. A complete sham.
Gee, wait till you hear about Nazis being allowed to grow their own food...
I'm seeing 3 million Nulo votes, which is way more than the margin of victory. Interesting.
When are Mastodon stans going to figure out that the reason people like Twitter is that it's (nominally) flat and you can interact with anyone unless they've blocked you for some reason? It's easy to build silos, which is what most instances are. Mastodon just reinvented single sign-on.

It's not a terrible thing to build, but whenever you make a product that's just imitating someone else (Twitter has 'tweets' but Mastodon has 'toots' because the logo is an elephant!) then it needs to be way better, not just a slight improvement. Longer messages are a good thing on Mastodon, though Facebook already does that. But what else does it offer that offsets the confusion of finding target instances, or conversely not being easily findable by people you don't want to converse with?

99.9% of users do not care about federation as a principle, it's just another level of technical gabble that they don't wish to be distracted by. Virtually every decentralized service struggles with this issue. Decentralization is primarily of interest to nerds, and for online services that requires you to be a bit of a computer and a bit of a politics nerd, shrinking your already small target pool.

Twitter's original win was that it was staggeringly simple, just asking new users to post about 'what they're doing right now' and offering simple controls to reply, repeat, or express approval. They realized that people felt more connected to a scrolling ticker of headline-style status updates than a newspaper.
It's always an option, I believe. You must vote, but you're not forced to vote for any candidate.
I wrote almost the same few minutes ago, but my comment got flagged.
Yeah that’s dumb. Better sell twitter yellow as a lower form of twitter blue
> Those verified active users are the lifeblood of the platform, but there can't be that many of them to justify rolling unnecessary obstacles in front of them.

They bring money to Twitter how exactly? That whole "verified" scheme was always a joke, given who gets to be verified or unverified. Either it's about real identities or it's a worthless ideology approval badge.
Choosing to only hire from one gender seems like discrimination
If this actually happens, what will the demographics at top universities end up looking like?
Yes, it is. Bear in mind that voting is mandatory in Brazil (for anyone over 18 up to 65 I thinkg. 16 and older can vote but is not mandatory). Also, most people don't know, even brazilians, but if you don't vote and don't have a valid justification for not voting, the fine you pay is very, very, cheap. Like less than 1 USD.
And the SMO's response to criticism: https://twitter.com/SMObserved/status/1586810108209614848?s=...
And the migrants are they worse off too? Is anyone allowed to decide for himself what his best option is?
I bought a Canon A-1 in order to (re)learn shooting with film. I haven't used it intensively, but i have been happy with it. It's a bit later than the OM-1, so has electronic metering, including exposure compensation.

I was drawn towards a Canon by the abundant supply of second-hand old lenses for it. Nikon's old lenses are still (somewhat) compatible with their modern cameras, so they are more expensive; other manufacturers' lenses are a little harder to come by.
I mean, they say openly that the desire is to have more of certain groups such as Black and latinx people. But you suspect the decision-makers at universities are really thinking "we want fewer Asians and Jews", and just pretending that they want more of other ethnic/racial groups as a cover?

This is really a different conversation than
"legacy admissions" (the name for letting the children of former graduates in preferentially, possibly especially when the former graduates are donors) -- which are so far understood as completely legal because there are no legally protected clases involved is what the GP was pointing out, I think, but which constitute a pretty significant % of some university's admissions, and which are disproportionately certain racial-ethnic groups too.
Science lives in universities. It's a relevant issue.
Indeed, Harvard in particular institutes their anti-Asian racism by systematically rating Asians lower on "personality" in order to get their numbers down. And that's according to the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollme...
Agree! It sucks. this is the tech equiv of what one Italian NYC restaurant owner pointed out about abstract/modern ambiance: in many cases it's just cheap. not high end
I would happily use Twitter in a mode that meant I only saw content and replies from verified humans and nobody else.
Your local instance moderators choose are responsible for who their server interacts with. Ultimately this creates many segmented branching networks of federation, and with an appropriate instance, nazis won’t exist in your network.
From what i read about the processes, both are helped by aa, because currently the group with the biggest disadvantages currently are asians(to a varying degree).
Fair enough. And let me add that sometimes refactoring for me means completely rewriting a sub-module or sub-system. It is safe to do as long as I have good solid tests to compare before/after.
Unfortunately science and politics are not actually separable things. People, including the courts and politicians, use biological arguments to justify their policies and opinions. Scientists have to be aware of the political ramifications of their work, and how their work is being used and mis-used.
Where do you think most of the research Nature publishes is conducted? It’s at universities.
The Hype Cycles of Venture Capital
> I would characterise PKD's prose as workmanlike.

That's a good way of putting it. I think a lot of his stuff was just published in a time when editors didn't do much, but also he was picked up by publishers who were pushing pulp, so there's a lot writing that feels "in progress".
USA. Many of the places that you now have to pay on a kiosk or electronically with the QR code ask you to pay and tip upfront.
Recycling batteries means there's lower usable lifetime. The recycled batteries would be cheaper to source, but the more frequent replacement drives up labor costs.

Recycling also doesn't alter the fundamental disparities in scale. Production needs to increase by close to two orders of magnitude to make any significant amount of grid storage. We're struggling to keep pace with just EV demand for batteries, adding just one hour of grid storage for the USA (about 500GWh) would eat up an entire year's worth of batter production.

What alternatives are you talking about? The existing alternatives aren't presently being used because lithium based chemistries beats them in cost. Other storage systems like compressed air are in their infancy and it's unclear if they'll become cost effective enough.

Let me re-use your logic: we don't need solar, or wind, or storage. We'll just use fusion. Fusion is making big strides each year. There's no limit to the number of ways we can squeeze together two hydrogen atoms, so if the tokamak doesn't work out there's too many alternatives for me to think about.
Had a similar experience: I think regrettably if the timescale is this short, no-one knows who to talk to (from other teams/the proper managers the level above), there's some need for memory/dealing with long-running things, and so you end up with backseat driving, revisiting the same issues without decisive action taken, etc
> And in the case that their decision clearly defies the Constitution,

How can anything “clearly” defy the US Constitution, when it is drafted in such vague and sweeping language? (Not just the original document, even moreso later additions such as the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment.)

If the framers of the document didn’t want to give SCOTUS such immense discretion to decide what it means, they should have written it with more details, precision, elaboration - which would have narrowed the Court’s hermeneutic freedom.
How can one set up region-specific DNS replies? is it exclusive to large companies?
So in other words, you are defining "constitutionality" to mean whatever SCOTUS says it means.

So if they said, "First Amendment doesn't count any more, sorry for the confusion," then I guess there is no more Constitution.

Your approach sounds like gaslighting at a grand scale. When we ask the population to set aside its own reason in the face of obviously incorrect decisions, you open the door to the end of democracy.
FWIW, when I lived in Seattle I found that Lumen's DSL service blocked it as well. It wasn't an obvious block, though. It was either some DPI or size-based filtering. I wrote it up here for posterity:

https://blog.prolixium.com/2021/01/23/does-centurylink-dsl-b...

It worked just fine through Comcast's Xfinity service (although at the time, that service had other critical issues for me..) and I have no problem now with Verizon Fios.
From what I read (never tried and not my area of expertise) for our short runs at home loss isn't that big of an issue, especially for 10km transceivers.
I read something recently (maybe on SCOTUSBlog?) about how oral arguments might not have much of an effect on the decision of the court, and that by the time the arguments are heard, the justices have already researched and studied the issue, read the briefs, etc. and likely have already made up their minds. However I don't recall the study methodology or the source, take this with a grain of salt.
Alleged 911 dispatch recordings of the Pelosi-incident: https://twitter.com/rma1776/status/1586172415846948865?s=20&...
Nazis aren't a unique one time occurrence. But we can call them fascists or neo nazis too if you want.

Anyway, people who use a lot of racial slurs and have nazi symbols in their avatars seemed really happy about Musk "restoring free speech". It's a legitimate concern that Twitter will turn into a place that's much more friendly to these people - and thus also much more hostile to anyone to their left.
Yes, even gender. Gender is just another subjectively chosen category, which points to objective reality. In this case, it points to internal brain states, instead of sex chromosomes. It's like the word "Belieber". That's a category which refers to self-described fans of Justin Bieber. There is nothing factually incorrect with such a categorization. In fact, categories themselves logically can't be factually incorrect. It's only the faulty application of an existing category that can be factually incorrect. Categories can have fuzzy borders, but that's often just the nature of words whose definition emerges from conversation and common consensus.

> So for you Hindus were wrong

Hindus were also right -- in their local context where the word "gender" is defined that particular way. There is no globally right or wrong way to define the word "gender", because "gender" is just a word whose definition is decided by local common consensus, just like any other word in a language.

Different societies have different words for common greetings with slightly different implications on meaning. None of them are right or wrong because these words are simply containers that can hold whatever we want them to hold. And it's up to common consensus to put stuff into those containers.
"Pre composites", doesn't that mean, well, aluminum? That's not particularly hard to work with, no? With composites, well, you can slap together some repair relatively easily, but for more complicated stuff, well you're not carrying around a large autoclave on a carrier are you?

(Unless the above doesn't make it abundantly clear, I have little knowledge of aircraft repair procedures)
Abandoned, but one of the guys behind it went on to make Tiny Core linux.

I have very fond memories of being a broke student with crappy computers, booting stuff like DSL, slitaz and puppy.
Yes. I was one such designer. You could do a UI in Flash and then export all its animations to cryengine. The actual design tools in Flash were mediocre, but some animators really loved them. For designers, it played well with Illustrator... if an illustrator vector file updated you could re-import it and reuse the animation. You'd just draw your UI gizmos / HUD / whatever, assign anything to be a sprite and hook it from code. Any complex vector animations could be created visually and then triggered. It even had full 3D capabilities, worked really well on mobile chipsets and could leverage a GPU, although in the UI-as-export for games context it would run on the CPU.
Twitter’s blue checkmark isn’t just authentication. The reason anyone cares about it is that it means “I’m a somebody”.
No. Two things one should never try to predict: the end of the world and what the Supreme Court will do.
Off-topic, tried to sign up on mobile - some strange auto scroll meant I couldn’t get past filling in my name! Happy to provide more info if you can’t repro.
Piggy-back is OK (you can still buy piggy-back extension leads), except for the case of a DIY piggy-back plug - this runs the risk of someone wiring two of them together, or a piggy-back plug to a male plug, resulting in danger.