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> Nowadays billionaires remind me of those barons, some even buy out land

I'm pretty sure you missed the important point of that history you've been reading. The bad part is the indentured servitude, not the land ownership.

> On the surface that made a lot of sense

To whom?

> So people mentioning someone’s net worth states their class and this is important for the context. As for Musk being entitled to fire anyone, sure he can do that, although some of it may not be legal, plus we as society may decide that this is not the norm we want to accept. Same as the peasants didn’t earlier.

There are a plethora of companies that behave in this exact way that millions of people continue to patronize in a much more substantial manner than they do Twitter (Food, vehicles, electronics, etc.).

Musk's behavior is not new, unique or shocking. These people are overplaying their outrage over his behavior because they don't like the man and Twitter is their safe space. It has absolutely nothing to do with his actual business practices.
Also:

- Livonia, ARMA III: Contact: https://en.mapy.cz/zakladni?m3d=1&height=4952&yaw=-27&pitch=...
That was for spam. I was thinking of regular user posts that are low quality in the way HN tries to avoid.

Of course that wouldn't have happened until there was a large general population on Usenet--and the dates do check out.
And I respect your view that generally workers are more productive at home. We can agree to disagree there. Also, work commutes in traffic are indeed silly.

This post is about body doubling, which happens far more in offices. That is a fact. Your reply makes it seem like that’s not the case. But, I agree with your gripes about in office work, which is why I work from home :)

Edit: my point is that what’s best for you, me, and other individuals may not be best for organizations. Do I care about organizations more than myself? No, but it’s at least something to recognize because I still care for some of them.
You say this but people have tried this with voat.co against Reddit

The only people who end up sticking are the ones banned from Twitter.
That would be kind of awesome I think :).
It is somewhat telling that those who used to dismiss all complaints about Twitter's moderation practices with a variation of the "private companies can do whatever they want" canard, are not really repeating that one anymore, or worse, seem to have abandoned that principle outright and are now complaining that the owner is, indeed, doing whatever he wants.

Twitter was a $4 million a day money pit at the time of its acquisition. It has had 2 profitable years in its entire life. Corporations are not charities and it absolutely beggars belief that people seem to think radical changes were not both necessary and inevitable.
email is one to one, and works well with that model, but twitter is many-to-many and loses a lot with federation
I apologize, but this is complete bullshit. I think everyone should write for themselves first, as a way to reference your jotted down knowledge at a later time or to summarize your thoughts on something and see how well you've mapped it out. Or just for joy. It is the responsibility of the reader/follower of the blog to only subscribe to blogs that post articles that they appreciate and stop reading them if they no longer feel like they do.
It's very much a stretch to compare Alex Jones to normal journalists, as much as most people seem to dislike journalists on this site.
mastodon's ux is terrible, but urbit's ux is like 100x worse
Not unlike how email was until Hotmail, for example, came along.
Given that this is quillette one would think they would be hesitant to question the wise and steady hand of the free market.

Surely the rationally-acting rational actors at all of these institutions are acting rationally in accordance with rationality?

After all, we live in a time when any "entrepreneur" can affix his name to a suburban sprawl wasteland strip mall storefront, open a University, and get accredited by at least SOMEONE and drive all of the wasteful and bloated (and liberal sissy-manchild-- their words not mine) institutions out of business, using the holy and righteous motive of PROFIT to deliver a better, cheaper, more rationally rational product to all of the young impressionable minds out there, right?
I mean, the website admin in that case can still access your messages. It's just that the admin is you.
Those decisions should not be taken at server level but at the level of the user. The way Mastodon is organised it is up to the server administrator to decide whether you get to interact with users on other servers. If the administrator has a bee up his bonnet on some specific subject he'll block any server which doesn't fit his idea of wrong and right with regard to that subject. This quickly leads to islands of server-groups which do not communicate with each other and as such increases the polarisation of the (small-n) netscape. Those on the "progressive" island won't hear much from the "conservative" island and vice-versa.

I've seen several comparisons between Mastodon and email servers where server administrators also have the power to block communication with other servers but those comparisons do not hold since I have yet to find a mail server administrator who blocks communication with certain other servers on ideological grounds. Mail servers are blocked because they are sources of spam, not because they host users with different opinions. Mail content itself is not moderated other than through spam filters which (for now?) do not censor on ideological grounds, "Tweets" and "Toots" are.

A better solution would be to have users select their own moderators just like they can choose their own content filtering (e.g. uBlock Origin) rule sets but I do not see how something like that can be implemented given the way Mastodon works.
The migration tool publishes a message to the instances of each of your followers informing them of your new handle, which in theory then gets updated seamlessly.

It was pretty rough when first introduced but seems to be solid now.
This is an LSP backend for Emacs. In what way is this setup not an IDE?
I think it's more that they didn't try ('till now) 'cause they thought ASML's machines just weren't ready for prime time. TSMC bought ASML's bleeding edge EUV machines thinking they could make it work eventually, and they did. Intel may catch up very quickly now.
I'm not describing Elon's content as spam. I'm saying he receives more spam than most people, particularly because he likes to respond to ppl that @ him and is very into crypto.
> As designed the UX is bad and cannot be fixed because of these issues.

For fun I just tried signing up and the process itself is confusing, sluggish, buggy, and ultimately didn’t work. It feels like it’ll need to improve very quiclkly if it’s going to capture any significant amount of Twitter users.
> make my own toy programming language, probably a Lisp dialect

I've learned a lot from the "Make a Lisp" project. If you haven't seen it, I'm sure you will enjoy studying it. https://github.com/kanaka/mal
Ok. I can share my thoughts. I‘d prefer to do this privately, though. Contact info is in my profile.
I didn't see this said in the article explicitly but if the index funds start selling rather than buying, stocks like Apple will probably be OK, but some other stocks that have been propped up by the index funds may have no bid and they can crash. This of course leads to more people exiting those stocks and potentially a vicious spiral. I supposed this could also effect the whole index.
I don't disagree, but the design of urbit is such that there's a path to it being good - that's not true of any other system built on the current stack (imo) because they don't fix the underlying incentive failures that lead to centralization in the first place.
My teenage years were similar. Cells phones were a thing but relatively rare and texting was limited. Friends in HS would often enough just drop by. Nowadays, if you just stop by a friends house, it feels borderline rude or intruding.

My hypothesis is that given the rise of everyone having always connected cell phones, texting, etc, that subconsciously we've all shifted to viewing our physical homes as our form of privacy. Essentially dropping in takes away the last place we feel we can control our interactions with others.
Not everything people discuss involves a victim.
Sun Type 5 Keyboard
>don't even solve most of the problems they try to solve

I mean it does somewhat solve the problem of Musk running twitter into the ground. For most people, I imagine mastodon is a lateral move, not a step up.
"Corporations are people" is the plural of "a corporation is people". It has nothing to do with assigning person hood to a corporate entity. "Corporations are people" is in reference to the 1st amendment free speech rights that the _people_ who make up a corporation still maintain when they are acting as a group.

Consider not eating up the soundbites of politicians without understanding the context.
I’m always surprised when there are still people acting like Elon isn’t just BEGGING to be hated.

I’m still of the opinion he is not doing the work and his success is mostly throwing money at eager (and smart) engineers. That’s a smart thing to do, good call on his part, but it’s almost like he doesn’t know that’s how his companies work.

Maybe he is just great at running tech companies or something but acting like the media/everyday people hate him for no reason is just dishonest.
> You seem to want to treat it as some sort of physical field or force.

Of course (I'm a rational materialist) it's "some sort of physical field or force", there's nothing else it could be, eh?

How much of the effect is due to power (in the physical sense) and how much due to modulation (communication)?

(Not to be coy, I'm a rational materialist but I'm also a Reiki Level III Master and I would really really like someone somewhere to do science to that. If I can influence these folks to take a more scientific materialist tack on their investigation they might discover something relevant to my own curiosities.)
let us know when you publish it; would love to read it.
Sorry only just saw this. Thanks for the tips. Thankfully I'm in no rush to move out of my current home (I'll have a 2 month overlap) so plenty of time to get the 'infrastructure' stuff done first.
Bording is more fun and faster with the mantis/crystal.

Or burning them out (optional with rock bording party)
He had no access to internals during that time, and the calibre of the 'planning' revealed during discovery in the trial was neither deep nor substantial.

There are now reports that some of those laid off are being asked to come back, in a belated recognition that it was a chaotic and flawed process.
Engineers developed a method to generate hydrogen gas in one-step process
Where Vim Came From (2018)
It’s not quite that bad. I ran my own mailinabox server on a vps a few years ago and didn’t have much issues with spam lists. Only gave up because I couldn’t be bothered updating the thing.
A lot of places never stopped publishing RSS feeds. It's just not a lot of people read them anymore.
If only the booze was the problem.

But I think I would be remiss if I didn’t leave this here. Victories are nice but it a long journey…

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self- seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook on life will change. Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that A higher power is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.

Written by an anonymous recovering drunk…
Leaflet, created by a Ukrainian citizen, is used to document Russia's warcrimes
Especially as they're looking to expand profits from services. Including older hardware will only increase audience capture and the number of people using and paying for various offerings from Apple.
The author seemed to be trying to build an article partly on a hook of "trying to be woke backfired" but in this segment, he intentionally conflates the facebook group and the google form for mentoring, which seems to have confused several here.
> You seem to think Twitter is for journalists. It isn't.

Someone should tell the journalists.
I'm pretty sure no one (including myself) even understands what urbit is.
A joke on myself, too. I swear our associative minds, knowing that peeps who wear green clothes and buy green cars, like and want more green; decide plants aren't rejecting green light (the obvious physics) but that they must want, love and use green light. An error I made myself until fairly recently.
I am not much of a gamer but I've been sporadically playing this, solo style. I like it for the most part. Especially since Microsoft forced me to convert my Mojang Minecraft account to a Microsoft and then immediately decided it was suspect and closed my access to it.
No idea if this link works, but Tweet™ is a trademark of Twitter®.

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:hi...
If the externality currently has no cost, then even pricing it low by orders of magnitude should be better than the status quo. Pricing it high by orders of magnitude would have negative consequences, but that seems unlikely to happen in practice.
My family and some of my friends went down the MAGA vs. anti-Trump path all over social media. I finally quit all social media during the Trump administration, but I had thought about it before then because I questioned what value any of it added for me. My day-to-day life really didn't change because of Trump, regardless of my opinions about him, or what anyone else thinks. The sequential social media outrages and controversies didn't change my mind and I doubt they changed anyone else's.

I can't say that what goes on in Washington has ever affected my life since the Nixon administration (ending the Vietnam war just before I reached draft age). Politics (at least in the US but I suspect in most places) long ago turned into mostly a series of pseudo-events, distractions intended to keep politicians and celebrities and "the elite" in the limelight, virtue signaling and "owning" the other side, while nothing that actually matters gets addressed.

Maybe I don't understand it or see the need because of my age. My kids all use social media, sometimes they get really upset about what goes on. They all grew up with the internet and social media, I date back to rotary phones and daily printed newspapers on the porch.

I stuck with LinkedIn for 12 years thinking it was a necessary and useful platform for "professionals." Never got anything out of it beyond recruiters contacting me about jobs that matched one keyword in my CV. I get work through an agency now, before that it was all word of mouth and referrals, and I still think that works better than trying to find work through online marketplaces and social media sites.

To bring it back around, I don't doubt that some people can get value from Twitter and other social media. I don't, but I don't project my experience on the rest of the world. My original comment in this thread intended to answer "I hate Twitter, what can I use instead?" Stop and ask what you expect to get out of Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn and then periodically check that you get that.

Thanks for the reasonable conversation. I only participate here on Hacker News anymore because most of the time I can find some interesting topics and the conversations usually stay civil and useful. HN can go into the weeds but I hold it out as an example of what good moderation and a respectful user base can create. I haven't found that anywhere else.
Does not look like a verified account?
Money can't buy social acceptance. And once you get beyond the amount needed to live comfortably the latter becomes much more valuable.
> the artists, web developers, professors, and other titles that imply a degree of wealth and elite connections

Yes. You hear web developer, you think, "Probably knows the Clintons."
https://web.archive.org/web/20221106190108/https://mathstodo...
It doesn't strike me as anti-anything to point out that structural inequalities exist.

Cultural divides are real, and standardized testing (or crosswords) written by members of a majority culture are likely to be inaccessible to some others.
I have noticed in social circles that skew heavily Western that a large majority of small talk revolves around media consumption, whether it's recounting TV episodes, quoting movies, meme-ing Spongebob, etc.

There's a lot of factors to blame for our feelings of isolation. I tend to look toward the fortress-ing of private homes and the sprawl of suburban developments, which encourage seeking enjoyment through pseudo-socialization with the characters on your screen.

Parasocial relationships were a thing long before Twitch and OnlyFans, only people were attaching to fictional characters so the effect wasn't quite as pronounced until actual humans became the objects of consumption (see: Disney adults, MCU ultrafans, etc.). This probably has to do with isolation from social groups as you describe, particularly as people in general lost community centers such as churches due to the sprawl and pace of modern life.
Someone more versed in social media could perhaps explain this to me...

Are you able to "sign up once" and be able to log into every instance of Mastodon? Would having a "central profile" database break everything it stands for?

I really like the idea. At the end of the day though, people usually follow the path of least resistance. Hence why reddit "wins" over forums (obv forums are much better for many things but you know).

It seems like something I would be interested in. I have been, since before this twitter drama even started. Someone tried explaining it back then and it sorta made sense. Perhaps its changed in the mean time though?
@anpat - Thank you for that, looks interesting!
This is good. I always encourage output vs constant consumption.
I've lost more than my fair share of servers to cost-cutters. Fuck that. Life is too short.

Also, you can't suggest that everyone should run 4 vCPU/8 GB RAM. Sure, 99% will never need more than that. The 1% who go viral will. If those people have 4/8 servers, because that's what was recommended, then anybody who goes viral will have their server die a fiery death. Behold, the social network's reputation will be that virality is a kiss of death. Watch as everyone leaves in droves.

Federated social needs federation AND spike resilience. Serverless handles your fifteen minutes of fame with ease at a small premium. Discount VPS providers do not.
I think so (no idea personally) and if you're afraid to miss good toots wouldn't not signing up at all be even worse?
I think writing in public might work for you. Don't do drafts, instead, start an article with just a title if you have to and progressively refine it. IMO an article's lifetime is much more than just the initial day or so after publishing it. Sure, that's when it will most likely get the most attention, and if you're optimizing for that, this might not be the best advice, but if not, it sounds like something that might work well for you.
Great idea, but search is pretty bad right now.

Searching for "django signals" got unofficial search results on the first page and all the links on the second page (1) are broken.

Searching for "go cobra" gets no official docs at all.

(1) https://search.feep.dev/search?q=django%20signal&p=2

Some suggestions:

- Prioritize github, gitlab, readthedocs, go.dev, docs.rust links

- In github, only parse readme and wiki links. Avoid parsing links that are related to a specific commit hash.

- Python, Rust docs have versions in the url. Can you link them to the latest version instead ?
Chinese devs are storing 1000s of eBooks on GitHub and NPM
Yeah sure I understand that. Just wanted to verify that at the offset we can elimate an uncountable number of possibilities and so for each n there are only a countable number of cases that need to be considered.
No, the problem is that it is UN-believable. Some tech reporters did a double-take when they heard it from others, and were unwilling to report on this until they got multiple corroborations of this madness.

In addition, Tesla engineers were probing Twitter for "top talent", and also involved in reviewing the printed out on paper code.

If I were at Twitter, I would be deeply humiliated by this treatment. A bunch of Tesla "stars" rolling in hard to rate the "Twitter clowns". Fuck. That.
> People dismiss his obvious success elsewhere in other insanely hard domains

People also dismiss his failures in hard domains, like The Boring Company.
Is LSP support for Python better than PyCharm's?

My assumption has been JetBrains' implementations are better for languages that they support deeply since they have so many more man-hours of polish, but e.g. Rust is going to be better with LSP than JetBrains' plugin implementation.
I agree with everyone who commented "prepping is not sufficient, we need communities to survive long term, otherwise we just delay the inevitable"

Watch "Falling Skies" if you don't agree. It's a good proxy.
He’s burning money because he loaded the company with a billion dollars of debt

Without that debt Twitter was in much better shape
I didn't know Rider supported F#, thanks for the tip.
EuroPython Conference 2022
Anyone else read the title as "post-mortem text editor"?
That's an unfair comparison though. What about someone that never used either of them ? Like someone that just hit 13 (or whatever the minimum legal age is). (See also : TikTok.)
Why do you think/know Jack was powerless to fix things?
I don't get it. Do people not do that anymore?
The irony of educators not being able to do math was..... Elementary.. It starts in kindergarten.

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/underfunded-teacher...

Just grabbed a random link for the above, but underfunded retirement accounts and underfunded pensions explain math in 2022 quite well.

Any inferior integer is good enough /s

A few links that date back to 1993 (pulled at random):

https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-ge-no...

https://www.deseret.com/1993/12/12/19081151/list-of-underfun...

https://nrtwc.org/underfunded-union-pensions/

Many industries are "beyond a crisis", its not a permacrisis :p

The public employee pensions are their own mess too
Google ad revenue is considerably more than Meta and Twitter combined.
The great thing about joining a club is that you know everyone there is already interested enough in the subject of the club to participate with you whenever they've availed their time to be at the clubhouse.

You don't have to drag your old friends out so much as make a couple new (low stakes, with boundaries at first, if you are anxious about it) friends.
e: Huh, didn't even modify my tmux config and it worked on a restart of the terminal.

Do you have any more information? Having a bit of difficulty figuring this out, found this for neovim [0] but doesn't seem to be working for me.

[0]: https://jdhao.github.io/2018/10/19/tmux_nvim_true_color/