skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't really true. There are three common "accessibility tools" that most apps aim for;

- alt text on images which is helpful for blind people (but also helpful for search and ML image categorisation)

- keyboard navigation which is helpful for users with motor problems (also helpful for power users)

- responsive design, which is very helpful for screen readers because it controls information flow (also helpful for users on devices that don't have the specific viewport specs that the designer aimed for)

Literally every accessibility feature you can name is like this - they all improve accessibility for disabled users and make things better for everyone else. Throwing out accessibility doesn't just hurt a minority of users who needed those features. It hurts everyone.
Companies do care what their ads appear alongside, because of the outrage tweets and because, en masse, people / the media aren't mature enough to separate ad space and user-generated content.
Is there any actual public evidence of Twitter being management heavy outside single statement made by Musk?
Yes, tech comp is about to come down greatly across the board.

We’ve barely seen the start of layoffs yet, and the Fed is pedal to the metal on engineering a recession. Tech falls first due to highest discount rate sensitivity
For Ubuntu/LinuxMint :

Ubunutu --> Gnome Tweaks --> Additional Layout options --> Make Caps Lock an additional ESC

Linux Mint --> Keyboard --> Layout --> Options --> Same

From the terminal :
setxkbmap -option caps:escape

There are option to swap CapsLock and Escape too, or you can have CapsLock when pressing both shift keys and other worthwhile options
I think for infrequent users it is a very strong drug, but when you use it all the time it doesn't do much.
Social media isn't inherently bad, if you can learn how to self-curate.

I've made pen pal friends on international trips who I stay in contact with on Instagram and Twitter because it doesn't make sense to exchange phone numbers. I use lists and muted words/phrases on Twitter to only see tweets from people I care about reading, on topics I mostly am fine with.

I guess for people who still browse Facebook and Twitter like they did 15 years ago, then social media should get buried. But there are some pretty effective ways to curb its toxicity and reap benefit from it these days.
I was there during the dot-com bubble.

Everything that looked like bullshit turned out to be bullshit.

And I've seen a lot of delusional bullshit during the last few years, the wort of those coming from Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
No, I was asked my management to review the reports and help them interpret them, I would gladly give all the devs access to the reports, but that decision is not mine.

I raised this suggestion with management, but since we had a handful of devs who were drastically underperforming we decided to help them out first with increased mentorship, in order not to embarrass them in front of their colleagues.

I don’t know why you’re assuming the worst and malicious intent, it’s a great place to work, especially when we have a good vibe and all enjoy working together.

I think what contributes to this positive environment is not employing developers who instantly assume malicious intent, and aren’t paranoid about being discovered as incompetent. These people are usually the ones most opposed to metrics, and also are the ones who the metrics show are the worst performers. Instead of objectively assessing the facts they attack the messenger, full of emotion and vitriol because of their insecurities and inabilities.

There are many factors that go into firing a dev, if someone needs help we mentor them and grow them, but if someone has a bad attitude, assumes the worst and is full of negativity, then we are very quick to fire them.
I don't know how much Musk is to be trusted. But I did see (I think it was a video interview) where he spoke of Twitter as a public square and it being important that such a thing exist and thrive in contrast to bubbles and echo chambers that don't attempt to distinguish between mainstream viewpoints and extremes. At the time, I accepted that his interest in Twitter wasn't primarily for profit or pushing a specific political agenda. I'll just be waiting and seeing how it plays out.

What I don't appreciate is the 'news' media making noise about Twitter without any real substance or analysis of potential outcomes other than producing knee-jerk reactions and getting self-serving eyeballs.
I thought if skin stretches slowly it just grows to cover the larger surface? I.e. stretch marks are only when skin is stretched too rapidly.
> But do not go crying to our admin and deny me, who happens to be on the same server as you and is semi-ok with some of the folks on that other server the ability to interact with them.

Here's another way to look at it: Our instance has moderation policies. You chose that instance in part because of those moderation policies, just as I did. Those moderation policies are there so we can interact with each other with the peace of mind that we're not going to have, say, child sexual abuse imagery DM'd to us.

Then an instance comes along with a few hundred follow bots that do that. So, after a few reports, our instance admin defederates from the instance.

If you don't like this, you're perfectly welcome to go to another instance, with different federation policies. Thanks to federation, you can do this and still stay in contact with me! It's a win-win!

> You see the dangers of giving admins that level of control?

No, not really. Those people are probably always going to exist. Honestly, much as I hate Nazis, if they're over there doing their thing, and not trying to harass or murder me and my friends, I'm happy just to let them do that. It's just a website; it's not like their kids won't have external influences and be able to figure out that, hey, Nazism is actually bad.
> Has hacker culture truly changed this much since I came up into in the 90s? Or has the demographic just shifted here that much?

Demographic shift which did affect the hacker culture. It's not that hard to spot the image of an average hacker of today. But I'm not gonna go into details - it would be like setting fire to a dumpster.
Please tell us what exactly you have seen that makes you come to the conclusion that “the Taiwanese” will not fight?

Were you referring to the Taiwanese people? The Taiwanese army? The Taiwanese government? The specific person that said they would defend themself?

Do you also feel that a nuclear war is inevitable between Russia and the US because of what is happening currently in the Ukraine?

Whether the US joins the fight is very much still up for debate. Whether “the Taiwanese” will fight - is probably better left for actual Taiwanese people to comment on.
So you're saying it's a nice to have? /s

For all its pretense of wanting to be the Town Square, somehow I don't expect it to be a very inclusive one. Getting rid of a11y team is exactly what I would expect, crisis or not.
Their share price is 73% down since the start of the year, certainly at some point their CEO and the person taking the actual decisions should take responsibility for it all, no?
Ford cares what non-Parler users think. That’s it. And because there are many, many more non-Parler users than Parler users, they’ve done extremely basic cost benefit analysis.

There’s also an interesting prisoner’s dilemma to advertising, which cuts both ways. If your competitors advertise, then you need to as well. And if they don’t, then you don’t either.
>I really don't think companies care what their ads appear alongside. They care about a Twitter user posting an outrage tweet with a screenshot of an ad for a Burger appearing next to the N word.

I don't understand what distinction you are making here? Aren't those the same things?
Ever been to the replies section of a journalist's post?
This looks really cool, but I hope they go for the kakoune style commands like helix.
Free, Open Source, modern, and accessible Mastodon client
I don't think FB/Meta was really too worried about Twitter. It was never anywhere close to catching up to FB's numbers.
You can just document a constraint that these function must use the purely functional subset of JavaScript, which is enough for the sorts of assertions I typically write. Alternatively, you could constrain it to the subset that has no unbound variables or side effects.
It's a good thing in the same way that a wildfire is a good thing. Great for the long term health for the forest, terrible for all the animals, people, property that happened to be in the way.

The tech industry is going to take a while to recover from the current economic shocks, and everyone – whether you work for the affected companies or not – will have to face some pain in the short term.
>I would tell you anecdotally that China is still, after gains we’ve made in the last five years or so, about five to six times faster than us in acquisition. In purchasing power parity they spend about one dollar to our twenty dollars to get to the same capability. It’s math, ladies and gentlemen. We are going to lose if we can’t figure out how to drop the cost and increase the speed in our defense supply chains.

I mean it sounds scary until you realize that a large part of our military spending is a jobs program and wealth redistribution platform. We're not serious about cost optimization because it's not a significant limitation at this point. Being behind the leader has its advantages, you let them do the hard work and you copy|steal it at a much lower cost. This does not mean you can easily become the leader without massively increasing your spending (and now having everyone steal your technology). Especially when you are both nuclear powers that are not going to directly attach each other without risk of annihilation.

Lose what is also a question that should be asked here. I assume ally nations like Taiwan would be the primary risks, though loss of other trading partners is a serious risk over time. As for prevention of these risks we're already funding pulling processing manufacturing back into the US, but again, this is going to be expensive. There is also nothing like a war where the stakes increase to spur innovation and decrease costs.
Adtech here, spending is increasing in all things. However premium content like Hulu etc are taking up more budget than "web apps" of late because the data shows its more effective
I am genuinely curious what better alternatives are on the table? Sticking retirement money into other vehicles seems guaranteed to have more tepid (if consistent) returns. For someone at the start of a 40 year career, the additional volatility seems well worth it.
I wish there were banks in my country supporting U2F. Or my nations national ID. The most sensitive things seems to have the least amount of security.
It seems that this website asked me to accept cookies with a Pop up that covers the whole screen (mobile) after accepting (only apparently option) it was still behind a subscription.

Could HN parse links and put how many cookies each website is trying to force you to accept?
How do you list buffer like :ls in Vim? I might have missed this someplace.
Sure, but I’m really interested to see what he does with http://x.com
This looks to have been written on Jan 4, 2020.
It's nice and all to say "yay yay market correction".

It's a whole other thing to be cheering for people losing their jobs.

Remember, we have one of the weakest social nets in the world. And our medical is nigh exclusively tied to our jobs.

But people are losing their jobs en masse (and the C-levels get golden parachutes). Um, yay?
> defense being essentially useless is still dead wrong

That’s not my conclusion, it’s that defense roughly counters the otherwise overwhelming advantage of attackers.

> round the clock watch watch setup by a neighborhood

That’s assuming a great deal of cohesion in your post apocalyptic scenario. I have no problem saying large communities provide a significant benefit, but that’s a product of a working society not something you would see after say a disease kills off 99.9% of the population.
If Musk hadn't made a Twitter offer, where would their stock be today? Probably low enough that big layoffs were inevitable.
i have a suspicion that much of what he’s doing is just chest thumping for his new fan base, “look at how i do whatever i want. i behave how i want. they can’t stop me, i’m The Strongman!”

just red meat for that particular crowd who worship strongmen. tho if he’s even a fraction of the irrationality that he’s portraying, i completely agree, twitters in trouble.
This is definitely a thing, and diet/sleep/activities can influence it as well.

Different people have variable ratios, and genetics certainly play a role in the variability.
> The general sentiment is… it isn't a bad thing

The general tone has seemed very defensive
Don't forget TSLA is down ~63% of it's price since april 14th compared with S&P500 drop to ~86% in the same time frame, impossible to say what's causally linked, but musk is not just out ~40+billion from this whole ordeal.
I think you've got it a little backwards there.

Smaller communities are easier to moderate. Reduced interaction with other communities means that any one person can only have a limited effect before a remote moderator intervenes.

What happens when a toxic community starts causing problems in the wider network? Quite simply, they get cut off from the network. Every individual user can block an entire instance. Each server can also block another instance. There is also precedent for ALL servers to block one particularly bad instance.

You probably can't prevent toxic communities from forming. Since it's an open protocol, you also can't prevent certain political parties from setting up their "free speech" instance and doing what they do. But you can cut them off from everyone else just trying to have a good time.

The community structure should tend to gather like-minded people together. That would mean some instances becoming intensely toxic. Which is what we have seen happen. On the other hand the isolated structure makes it easy to just ban that entire community with one button.
I recognize that this is an advisory post, but I have seen a number of people out there that shout this as a valid reason to not use Mastodon, which I hate, and I feel is such a lazy excuse.

You know what other sites don't have encrypted DMs?

- Twitter

- Facebook Messenger

- Instagram

- TikTok

- YouTube

- Reddit

- LinkedIn

- Email

and on and on.

Basically ANY major site that doesn't explicitly advertise DMs as E2E (or encrypted alone) can just be assumed to NOT be encrypted. So why complain about Mastodon alone then (again, directed at the hypothetical person).

Beyond that, yes it's a bit of an issue where the admins of an instance can read your DMs. If that's a problem, then you yourself can self-host an instance, or find a friend to do so, and enjoy peace of mind.

Or, just use an encryption method like PGP, encrypted online text paste services, saltstack, etc new fangled encryption methods, or send pre-encrypted files hosted on external services.

end rant blah
Bipcot Nogov License
Crazy midterm stat: Big chase for tiny slice
> decently paid experienced team

If you're talking about the team they have doing the front end work for them, sure. But if you're talking about the two DF developers, certainly not. They've been making money on the game for years, sure... but a relatively low amount of money on the game, certainly not something I'd label as "cashing in". Rather, I think they believe the Steam move is "cashing in" because they hope it will bring them a lot more money; an amount I would help is better aligned with their work.
That's not what the TFA said. The "proof" for structural inequality was that crossword puzzle authors are mostly white men. That's it. There was no charge of rejecting women or people of color from writing crossword puzzles systematically or individually. And in fact the three black people encouraged to write the puzzles quit because of "lack of time".

The cultural inaccessibility is not a problem, as you noted in your (now deleted) anecdote about how you don't get _Lemonade_. Not everything has to be accessible to everyone. Audiences largely self-select, and it makes no sense to attack something because the audience is all one color, and even less sense if this only upsets you if it's one particular color.
Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth (1600 Ly)
Didn't he buy into Tesla?
And I'm sure it'll stay on that unvisited Confluence page for a year or so till some doing some cleanup goes "A11y team? They left agees ago." and deletes it.
I think there's a fair amount of 'status quo' bias here.

Mastodon isn't going to be a massively federated system that recreates every nuance of the Twitter UX.

It could still be a worthwhile alternative to Twitter. It would be nice if there were thousands of Mastodon servers, but perhaps a handful is ok. Mastodon has a slightly confusing user experience, but so was early Twitter - maybe that's ok too.

Whatever the downsides to Mastodon are they should be weighed against the benefits of moving away from Twitter, which are enormous. Irrespective of whether the Town Square metaphor fits exactly, Twitter hosts a massive amount of influential political discussion. Demonstrating that many users will stop using a venue for political speech if a billionaire gains unfettered control of it is an incredibly important precedent to set.

Mastodon doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be a bit better than Twitter. I think it probably clears that bar easily.
+1

Social media has been a net minus for society. That doesn't mean "no benefits" but rather "benefits far outweighed by costs."

As for Google: some DC cynic once said "Never believe anything until it's been officially denied." So has their PR team denied it yet?
Germany‘s state sponsored privacy agency on Mastodon
That may have been true a decade ago, but Twitter hasn't been real competition for Facebook for a long time now.
Each of {Free,Open,Net,DragonFly}BSD is its own operating system, complete with tree, system call interface and ports tree. This is not the same as the distribution model Linux has - the BSDs have diverged substantially from one another.
Yitang Zhang's Latest Result on Landau-Siegel Zeros Conjecture
Would the PRC also enforce a no-fly zone?
Unemployment rate is pretty much the lowest it’s been in history.

God forbid we take responsibility for the massive bubble we’ve created through fiscal and monetary excess and actually address inflation

These people will be reabsorbed elsewhere, but it will certainly be a sad world when 21 year olds can’t make 300k out of college with 0 experience.
Their new owner creates this type of media attention. Second, layoff because of economic conditions is different than radical business moves by their new owner. I an looking forward to see the outcome.
I still, after all these years, hold the belief that facebook failed to innovate because the engineering interview is based on memorization. Having worked with those types of engineers, they can absolutely build exactly what is needed. But abstract and engaging product vision does not come easily with them. Outsourcing that capability to an attractive and charismatic product manager can never close that gap.
You're describing a federation of platforms, and this can work, at least technically. XMPP worked wonderfully for a brief moment. Unfortunately, profit incentives are aligned against it.

The Fediverse, at least as I see it advocated here, is not a federation of platforms but a federation of social cliques, where your ability to communicate with someone else is determined by connectivity in the clique graph.

This is a great thing for the kinds of people who would have become deeply invested in a web forum or newsgroup back in the day, but it cannot (and arguably should not attempt to) address the mass market.
Yeah, I was pretty turned off by that. I clicked on the link wondering if it was some sort of cloning technology, or perhaps just some sort of video editing/generation technology, but was disappointed to see it's just "co-working" or "physically-present emotional support" if you want to capture the essence of it. Sure, that latter term is a bit wordy, but "body doubling" is IMO just a very strange thing to call this.
Unless you're binary searching something other than a data structure. Fascinatingly, binary search works just fine in optimization problems where the function to optimize is monotonic.
No it doesn't. It's a "different" social network, it's not an exact clone of Twitter. There is a need for a primer for the flock of the new users to get them up and running ASAP.

If people don't like Windows 11 and decide to switch to Linux, they need posts that help them settle down. It's a "different" OS.
Nobody moderates a community for free for to obtain fulfillment by having power over other users. You need to talk with people in position of power more.

They do get users like you, who will tug at everything they can find even the most outlandish of conspiracy theories, to feel like they're not powerless and have to abide by common law rules.
First - it's the best and most important thing you will do in your life. Second - you'll mess up occasionally, it's ok, everyone messes up. Third - time is a pretty pony and passes fast, spend a lot of time with your kids. Good luck!!
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> I want to dig into one of these editors for a stronger understanding of how they work, and using something as obtuse as Rust is a total nonstarter for me.

I would be absolutely amazed if the language is what makes an editor easy/hard to understand unless that thing is written in whitespace/brainfuck. In this particular case the helix codebase is incredible easy to understand and contribute to, definitely easier than vim, neovim and others _despite_ the fact that it's written in Rust.
Social media will not "end", just continue to evolve from one form to another and one platform to another.
Elon Musk advertised as a feature that he would cut Twitter staff to bring the revenue per employee in line with industry standards.

But I’m curious - What ideas of Elon do you find to be delusional bullshit?
I didn't think any sane person would hail a draft-dodger who cheated on his wives and declared bankruptcy 5 times would be hailed as a patriot, a man of God, and a business genius. And yet here we are.
> It added more than 27,000 employees in 2020 and 2021, and added an additional 15,344 in the first nine months of this year—about a fourth of that in the most recent quarter.

So it basically doubled employee count in the last three years. Insanity.
When I added a similar feature to an app a few years ago I found about 5% of users selected the high contrast theme. Our UX person talked to users and found loads of people using crappy old corporate LCD monitors that should have gone in the bin years ago found it really useful.

The moral of the story is that users who don't need a feature will still use it.
> tech comp is about to come down greatly across the board.

To be honest the total comps for some FAANG companies had gone into the crazy territory, there was no way for a up and coming startup to compete against comps of 500-600k (or so I had read) that decent engineers were getting.

I mean, there was a way, but in exchange those start-ups had to promise the world and then some, which was not ideal, to say the least. That's how we got lots of "fake" unicorns, which only now are beginning to get back to Earth.
There was a "hit" commercial in the Netherlands, IIRC somewhere early 2000's. Lot's of funny gags and word-jokes. Also this one (translated from memory).

> A. Also, my husband blogs twice a day.

> B. Eeww, Yuck!

(Joke being that, for people not knowing what "blogging" is, but who want to appear worldly, it's safe to presume it's something really gross)