skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most challenging thing I faced when I first joined some niche Mastodon server was what to make of the three feeds available to me:

- the mostly quiet local feed (even though it niche suit me well)

- the inaccessible firehose that is the "federated" feed

- and the completely empty personal feed

Where do you go from there? But after a few days, after I started recognizing some of the locals and having talked with them, after following some interesting accounts and some people I knew from Twitter, I got rather comfortable with the slow and small pace of Mastodon. Twitter's now very good at finding you a spot in it's network quick (especially since tech twitter's pretty active) but I remember signing up way back on my old account when I had to spend time curating it before it was any kind of enjoyable. The post-algorithm, organic vision of the Mastodon will also be very familiar to people familiar to the cozyweb (Discord, Telegram...etc).

And I think the cozyweb's exactly what people should keep in mind when joining Mastodon. You'll not get to _at_ your country's leader and your favorite retail chain, you'll discuss the news with people in your network and not with whoever has the most attention grabbing takes but hopefully, you'll have more meaningful interactions and build a more lasting relationships. It feels more like Facebook/Facebook groups of old except your locale isn't whoever you went to highschool to origin, if you're not familiar with cozyweb. It's definitely not Twitter and I personally think there'll always be place for something like it but maybe journalists and the kind of conversations they're supposed to help facilitate shouldn't be had on micro-blogs.
When Twitter started overtly censoring conservatives a few years ago I tried to break my addiction to the platform. Lefties said “if you don’t like Twitter, start your own platform.”

Gab and Parler popped up. Predictably, they picked up some unpleasant fringe elements of the Right (just as Twitter hosts unpleasant far-Left accounts).

And then the Left went on the attack against Gab, Parler etc, cancel culture activism against advertisers, cloud hosting, payments, app store listings etc. Aside from the obvious problem of Twitter’s network effect, it seemed futile for right-of-centre people to create their own networks due to insidious attacks on those networks by the Left.

I had high hopes for decentralised social networks like Mastadon — in principle — but the user experience was 5-10 years behind Twitter, and the Mastadon founder also had some questionable leftwing/pro-censorship ideas too. I didn’t spend long there before begrudgingly returning to Twitter. I asked my wife to password-protect app limits on my iPhone to prevent me spending more than half an hour per day on Twitter. Why waste my time in a place where people with my political leanings are systematically suppressed?

Then Elon came along and I feel there are brighter days ahead. He wants to make the far left and far right equally unhappy. And he wants the limits of free speech to be dictated by law (created by democratically elected governments) rather than by opaque private companies with inevitable corporate/political bias. Good luck to him.
Roasted and seasoned watermelon seeds are also a popular snack in China:

https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2016/09/sowing-the-melon-s...

Personally I've never understood why people spit them out in the US.
Taiwan was never Chinese to begin with and never has been. Just because the Nationalists fled there doesn't give them the right to invade or lay claim to the island.

They could, for all I care, invade Taiwan and relocate all the Chinese to China and leave Taiwan well alone.
> Anyone who wants to buy stuff to repair has heard of Craigslist and eBay and so on already, right?

Maybe, but what about the people who want to buy repaired equipment? The service I describe can function as an intermediary between those who have broken equipment to get rid off, those who can repair such equipment and those who want to get functioning equipment. Thrift stores do not take broken equipment if they can, individual "fixers" do not have the name recognition to be able to sell repaired equipment, buyers who are not fixers want to get equipment which is known to work.
This is all my personal experience working there for two years as an extremely junior engineer more than five years ago, so take with a grain of salt.

JPL’s culture is very academic in nature. I mean JPL is literally an arm of Caltech that contracts exclusively to NASA and a limited set of other federal bodies. My experience was that there wasn’t a huge focus there on career growth. Many people there seemed to be happy to spend decades doing basically the same job. And don’t get me wrong, it’s a great place to work. A lot of incredible technical talent and extremely interesting people work there just because it’s JPL. The campus is gorgeous, Pasadena is an insanely nice place to live. Downside is JPL salaries are on the low end even for aerospace and Pasadena is expensive.

Personally I just wanted a more dynamic work environment.
> All they hear is "Firefox bad, so I'll stay with Chrome."

Which is exactly what I am suggesting people do in my comment (note I go on to say why I see it as a good thing that the Chrome renderer is taking over). I didn’t just criticize your critique I suggested why I thought it was wrong on multiple levels but somehow that got missed in most of these threads. Mozilla won’t win on ideology, they have to win by being a superior technology.
For me it doesn't matter if its Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon, HN, ... - mentally it is "posts". I'd have to go look what the UI on my instance actually says (some change it).
By the way, "whole-heartedly", as in "with your whole heart". As opposed to "foolhardily", as in "with the hardiness (boldness) of a fool [who doesn't understand the need for caution]".
Thank you! A friend of mine have sent me one of her videos just this morning. It was about the pink skies phenomena (not sure if it has a proper science-y name?). Even on video it looks magnificent – must be a real otherworldly experience if you see it in real life.

https://youtu.be/WKZ_hwH5KXE
I guess there is a trade off here of having strong security but then users being completely locked out or falling back to SMS which defeats the purpose of stronger auth like Yubikeys. There should at least be an option to disable SMS for auth. Another option is to call up your telco and ask them to only port a number if you are physically present and verified in a store. This wouldn’t protect against an insider at the telco, but at least common threats.
That's very strange definition of failure: many non-homogenous systems have Pareto distributions. That in itself is not indicative of failure.

30 years ago, AOL may have been most popular email provider, it was displaced by Hotmail, then Yahoo, now GMail. Having different leaders over time is evidence of the resounding success of email federation, those domains still exist and can still send/receive emails universally. If email had hypothetically been non-federated and proprietary to AOL, it would be dead today (or as close to it as gopher)
What about the gasoline tax that we pay for on every gallon that’s supposed to go towards our roads? Not only are we being taxed on every gallon but we have to rely on foreign investment too? It should be either or.
The "cry it out" / Ferber method taught our kids how to fall asleep on their own and saved our sanity. It used to take hours to get a baby settled and one of us had to be there the whole time. By letting them cry for a bit (occasionally showing up to reassure that we're still there), it took like a few days for them to go to sleep on their own. It was an amazing change, and one I wish I had put in place much sooner.

The idea (from what I remember, it's been years), is to put them down and leave the room. Then come back for a bit, and then leave for a longer period of time, say double, etc. It's gradual and, in our case, was ridiculously effective. Nothing works for everyone when it comes to kids, but it's totally worth trying after they pass, say, 6 months.

Once they get this down, it is important _not_ to walk on eggshells while the babies (and when they're older) are sleeping. Get them used to being able to sleep when there's noise. It'll make your life so much easier in the future, and you'll be able to bring kids into social situations, or bring social situations into your home, without the stress of kids unable to sleep due to noise.

Final word of advice - you will be showered with metrics and progress reports, statistics on how your child compares to others, etc. Ignore all that. Kids normalize over time and these deviations become way less significant. You'll have to make a conscious effort to ignore this noise, because fears for your kid are natural and will inevitably bubble up to the surface. Be the best parent you can be, and ignore the mountains of contradictory advice you'll get from friends, relatives, media and strangers on the internet ;) a lot of it is bullshit, so don't sweat it, your kid will be fine!
AFAIK that’s a misconstrual. Having a “verified” blue checkmark will cost $8 a month, but using Twitter and saying whatever you want on it will still be free.
That doesn't seem like the optimal way of filtering when you're just trying to get eyes on your product. That criteria doesn't have anything to do with the product itself. This is something that's actually relevant to my interests, looks cool, and I'd like to try it at some point.
But your popular feed will be filled with unmoderated flamebait and propaganda.
India's Hack-for-Hire Industry
I don't think so.

China would have to fire on US military ships to enforce any such blockage.

They aren't going to start a war with the US.
The reason that you "all know it" is not that knowing it is a characteristic feature of ADHD. Rather, it is because you are all related and in contact with each other. 100% of your family having ADHD does not make your family representative of the general ADHD population.
Then call them "posts." Everyone knows what that means, it's not Mastodon-specific, and it's not a euphemism for something associated with bodily function that I'm aware of.
I still remember when everyone abandoned Facebook for Ello. And then everyone abandoned Facebook again for Diaspora.
Yeah, people have different roles and talents. The face of the company does get most of the praise and fame, but that's true of nearly every organization I can think of.
The GDPR actually only applies in the EU. You're probably thinking of the CCPA which applies worldwide.
I don't think rust is particularly bad for beginners. It makes subtle bugs harder to write, so the bugs you get tend to be pretty straightforward and easy to diagnose.

There is obviously a bit of upfront investment, but it's comparable to most other languages (less than C++, for example). I have a much easier time writing rust than C, for example, and I'm a very mediocre programmer.
Just watch "pulp fiction" and you'll never hear gimp the same again.

Part of the solution though is to just pronounce it "jimp" which is the official way anyhow
Do it now and your only regret will be not doing it sooner :)
Lectures could be, but tutorials are nowhere near as good online.
Honestly, I think it's concern trolling. Newbies don't know federation is incomplete, so it's not a problem for them. It's only on the HN threads full of mastodon haters that the topic even gets mentioned, but these are not newbies. They're people looking for reasons to be unhappy.
Between Elon Musk’s recent antics and Jeff Bezos’ insane performance expectations, one would have to wonder how billionaires manage to stay alive with their ginormous God complexes.
No need to imagine, you are living it.

Accessibility on Quantbase is abysmal. Maybe bring that up before telling others how to handle it on their stuff?

Score of 53 out of 100 with 4 critical issues, knocking it out of compliance.

https://www.accessibilitychecker.org/audit/?website=https%3A...
isn't yours more of a complaint about the _searching_ part? people shouldn't self-sensor out of fear of unoriginality and it's really up to the fabled algorithm to sort this out.
Immanuel Kant came up with the idea of a categorical imperative. It’s one of the foundation stones in the field of moral philosophy (or ethics). An example would be the moral requirement not to kill other people. The only way to successfully prove that there are no moral requirements is by arguing the point with people who don’t know any better.
Imagine that. Literally to be announced the day after Election Day. Some coincidence.
If you read through the case history, you can see that the ADA does not have specific language saying something like "websites above size x must be accessible, and that means a, b, and c need to be followed." Much of that has been developed into case law and precedent by judges ruling in numerous lawsuits over the years, which is why it's still a somewhat grey area for edge cases.
>new BS every six weeks

My project advances the state of the art, your project publishes updates, his project puts out new BS.[0]

Also, I'd like to know whoever's recommending Rust for _beginners_? Nobody should be doing that. Not even the most hardcore fan I know would push that.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation
Did you just compare Musk to Ghandi and Ford?
When this has been discussed previously on HN, the conclusion was that the lava lamps don't actually matter at all.
I have long wanted a programming search engine where I could pick something like "Python" and "version 3.9" and always get the right thing. Similarly there is documentation for software packages that are similarly versioned (e.g. "react-router 4" vs "react-router 5")
Before it was that private companies could do whatever they wanted, now many trying to impose their will on Twitter’s actions all of a sudden.

Huh
Agreed! It seems like exactly searching for special characters could be the "killer app" that programmers need which would get them to leave Google.
Many drugs modify your hormonal system - that in and of itself isn't the issue. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481923/ is a really good overview in my opinion that does a thorough, fair analysis of many studies of finasteride.

The biggest problem I have when hearing about finasteride side effects is that anecdotal reports are completely useless when determining the true risks of finasteride, but they are played up a ton by the press. The reason being that finasteride is a long term medication. If you look at a large group of men from, say, age 30, tons of them will develop fertility issues, sexual issues, depression, etc. in the next 5 years regardless of any medications they are taking. But it's very easy to get someone on the news that says "I started taking finasteride last year and now I have no libido" and blame it on finasteride. The press rarely interviews people like me who have been taking finasteride for nearly 20 years with no ill effects.

And, to be clear, my anecdotal report is useless, too - only broad meta-analyses and your personal risk threshold should weigh into your decision of whether or not to take it.
I’m confused how the semantic game of “that Twitter no longer exists” contributes to the discussion. By that same logic, you could say that the Twitter of 2015 didn’t exist in 2020. The only difference is the speed of change.
What would be instead?
Where's Blender? Hands down the best user-focused open-source software out there, to the point of being better than the commercial alternatives in many fronts.
I am contributor to helix that is working on bringing diff functionality to helix.
You can check the current progress on the first related PR on github (https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3890). The PR is pretty far along. A new gitoxide release is happening today and once that is out we will only be waiting for an upstream library to merge my fixes.

The machinery developed in that PR contains most of the heavy lifting for implementing a vimdiff tool. The only thing that is missing is support in the rendering system to display them. I will be collaborating with one of the maintainers to make that happen as well so we will get a diff mode in helix sooner rather then later.
There's always the NNTP newsgroups. We use them in the D community as the basis for our discussion groups. We're very happy with them.

A modern interface has been put over them:

https://forum.dlang.org/

but still, it's NNTP and any NNTP newsreader can access them.
Quite a few of the larger public servers have done exactly that.
I like it for the specific reason that it's ridiculous.
I meant the concept of buying a social media company to gain access to a network/captive audience. I was not talking about a specific company.

If I was talking about a specific company I would have said "Why don't they buy a considerable stake in {insert social media company}"
The reason I just want a public key is because I don’t really own the account otherwise. I only own it if I self host it. If I rent from them, I’m just renting my account from these services. It’s actually worse than renting it from Twitter because people care less if smaller companies abuse you.
Why not just hire two housekeepers and divide the workload among them?

Is Jeff, or whoever the head butler is, so ruthlessly efficient that the cost of a second employee is intolerable?
Oh dang, looks like it's open source too. licensed under GPLv3 - https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren
Tim Cook is such a chad of capitalism. No scandals, no cheating on his spouse, no useless hail mary projects, no “my rocket is bigger” games, no embarrassing twitter addiction. The guy just wakes up every day at 4am, creates value for shareholders until 10pm, then sleeps and does it again the next day. Quietly collects half a billion a year for his hard work. When he is in the news, he sounds totally human. Here he is biking alone on Sand Hill. Here he is at the grocery store. Bezos and the rest look brilliant but juvenile by comparison. Jobs legacy lives on in his pick, although he himself had some of these holes.
Q/J
I not spitting them either. Seems rude to spit out food while eating anyway.
It was an intentional double entendre
Show HN: Picst – a Rust CLI tool to resize clipboard images on the fly
One thing you get from reading TREC conference proceedings is that most of the things that you think will improve search relevance won't.

People have almost forgotten how bad search indexes were before Google.
> Everyone says that and they have no proof.

Here's an entire blog post with proof:

https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2016/02/how-undefined-signed-o...
True, but few ceos make a big public stink about how overstuffed the company is, abruptly and arbitrarily fire half the staff a few days in, with almost no notice, then are like oh wait…
omg that has to be the worst explanation of a piece of software that I've seen in a long while
I teach (not at a boarding school).

It is infinitely better for engagement and student community to basically not have the phones out. This includes breaks and study periods.

All our students have computers, too, and I allow them to be out and used only very sparingly.

Basically, if you don't do this-- you either have students completely check out or need to dedicate >20% of your effort to enforcement. Students are less likely to socialize with other students outside of their preferred social groups. And all kinds of backchannel, terrible things happen between students during the school day in ways where you have much more trouble detecting and enforcing.

Yes, students will need to ultimately learn to moderate technology usage themselves. But we can at least ensure the school environment is productive and safe, and allow them some more prefrontal development before asking them to fully control an addictive device in ways that many adults struggle.
>scale of the conflict right

Would not go that far, but I agree that more PRC narrows military gap with US, the more TW becomes a stretch goal to the greater strategic aim of eroding/pushing out US presence in Asia and more broadly US primacy in general. At end of the day cross strait drama is one sustained by US power post WW2, which sufficiently deterred or destroyed would open up many options for reuninfication.

Ultimately the prospect for war is real, but timing is differs.

On paper, US wants war sooner (before 2030) to take out pacing competitor as force balance is shifting towards PRC favour every year while PRC's nuclear deterrence still not sufficient. It explains much of recent US behaviours, which is not to say admin is actively engineering war, but actors are not actively constraining policies that could lead to one.

For PRC even taking TW doesn't dramatically improve PRC geostrategic posture - Yonaguni is basically where TW is and can be militarized with US hardware, as well as other regional fence sitters that want to hedge against PRC containment but only after TW damocles is off the table. But not if PRC substantially dismantles US military presence in Asia and make examples of US partners that participate in broader campaign which will also include destorying military infra in the region (i.e. Pinegap). The worst thing US can do is try to defend (non security guarantee) TW and fail, the next worst is succeeds pyrrhicly but lose so much hardware that honoring other defense commitments becomes impossible to hide. For PRC, this is like a 2030+ effort. Which is not to say PRC would not prefer a relatively isolated TW campaign with minimal US intervention, but they're war planning assumes US intervention and if that comes to pass, IMO PRC won't be content with just stopping immediate US intervention goals, but their abliity to intervene in Asia going forward.
Not a fan to be honest. I stick with vanilla so when it breaks I can read the manual. Although I know Doom works great and makes a lot of people happy, it doesn’t do anything you can’t do yourself by downloading packages and configuring them to your needs.
Neovim is closer to Helix but satisfies the needs in the second paragraph?
Administration is one component but another is student life/amenities. Lots of schools borrow to keep up in the arms race for new swanky dorms, gyms, aquatic centers, climbing centers, you name it. Then they need dough, so they shake down their clients, the students. Oftentimes standards are viewed as less important than continuing the student loans that pay for the school's loans. Going back to simpler times when you got a little bullshit dorm room or shacked up in a greek house and made your own fun might be an answer here too. But I agree that admin bloat is real and most of these positions seem to be some mix of bullshit job or student entertainment coordinator.
Possibly true but I would imagine the team created an internal Bible of all accessibility requirements and that all of that information wasn't siloed in the heads of each employee in that department.
Too many people think that checkmark = free speech and all us peasants using Twitter without it aren't worthy of the mark.
How is my favorite Mastodon-hater doing, you must've had a bad last few days? ;)

(i kid, i kid...)
This is the first time I’ve ever read something on Mastodon. Well played.
Not just yet.
Starting with the people who are still alive would be a good idea. I think you can find plenty of people responsible for modern wars/other crimes against humanity after WWII. The end of WWII also marks the "official" punishment as in Nuremberg trials.

This is not "your grandfather jaywalked" case but pretty rational I think. But you know where it will end up when for example our "leader" the US had declared that it does not recognize ICC, and will take any measures starting with sanctions and including force if it ever gets prosecuted. The other countries take it as an example. Cant blame them for not buying into that do as I say bullshit.