skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My folks are around 70 now. I just flew back home to visit them. Every day in the evening the news goes on, and they sit together and watch (muting only the advertisements). Years ago I would watch to, but this time I was observing my folks and wondering about the origins of this pattern / habit.

During WW2, the AM radio informed the population, no doubt saving lives. Families would gather around the radio for BBC news, compelled by uncertainty and fear. The war finished, the years went by, radio became a TV. When I suggest maybe skipping the news, it's met with shock and something along the lines of "not watch the news? we need to be informed".
AI professors will soon be as good at teaching as the real thing and nobody need feel stupid talking to a program.
I've always disliked Arial. Thanks Microsoft/Monotype for making everything ugly and illegible.

But my vote for the print (and PDF) typeface that has I would be very happy to never see again (at least in anything that isn't a mathematical formula) goes to Knuth/TeX's abominable Computer Modern.
The best part of all that is that I would LOVE a UNIX command to quickly bulk replace filenames against a pattern instead of some multi-pipe bash loop incantation that I usually resort to (when banging out mv x y on 30+ files is really too dumb to stomach). Simple binary sans node please, but the idea is great.

I mean dear god look at these examples: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9393607/find-and-replace....

Now somebody tell me I'm an idiot and recommend a commonly used program for the aforementioned problem please.
Yeah he said you need to clearly label your account as "parody" account if you wanted to do that. Except people got banned even though the followed this new rule. Ethan Klein aka @h3h3Productions clearly labelled his account via a big banner picture, but has been booted off the platform.

Meanwhile I'm continuing to report the pretty explicit racism, homophobia, transphobia I'm seeing in replies to some people I follow and getting the "...we want to let you know that {user} hasn't broken our safety policies..." response. So, it seems the priorities for the (presumably substantially gutted) moderation team aren't hate speech, but rather protecting Musk's feelings
Millions of families suffer every year!
> Several accounts that had changed their name to the new Twitter owner have been suspended or placed behind a warning sign. [..]

> Other accounts, including one parodying former US President Donald Trump by comedian Tim Heidecker, are yet to be suspended

Kind of says it all :P
> I never follow any political poster but liking is enough.

I suspect that clicking, or perhaps even pausing is enough. The only time I look at Twitter is when running my organization's Twitter account. I try to follow technical people and organizations, and am mostly looking for something of a pulse on what's going on in the Linux / FLOSS crowd on Twitter. Since I'm representing my project, not myself, I never click 'like' on anything political; and I'm pretty sure my predecessor in the role never did either.

And yet, here I am every day, wading through loads of political posts which mysteriously mostly align with my preferences.

Edited for clarity.
45 km/h I think. 50cc and/or 4 kW depending on type of motor.

But basically with light driver this isn't too hard enforcement.
The cool thing is not only was there a lot of push-back on this sort of behavior, which is great, make sure you let companies know you don't like being turned into the product. but linux itself is pretty great at avoiding lock-in when a company does this. not only are there 50, "almost but not quite the same" distributions you can trivialy switch to, there is probably a distribution whos mission statement is "X" but without the ads.
Yes, the solution is to label everything. You should label your comment as known to the State of California to cause cancer, or birth defects or other reproductive harm.
Considering how many people on HN (Almost every FB related thread has at least one upvoted "I deleted facebook, it’s been so much better since" comment.) and apparently in some other places seem to have a social media addiction, that becomes liberating once they quit, I wonder if it’s a widespread problem, or if it’s a loud minority?

I quit most social media, not because it’s liberating, but because either a) the website became unusable (Facebook, I still use it for groups which are closer to how the timeline used to be) or b) It became boring (Twitter many years ago after I had been there since the start). Neither of those felt liberating, and especially in the Facebook case, I missed the interactions I had.
"You wouldn't steal a car

You wouldn't steal a movie

You wouldn't steal an identity

Parody. It's a crime."
If I read this correctly, this is mostly aimed at the smoke-stacks of fossil fuel plants. Great for reducing their harm before we phase them out, and valuable especially if it is cheap enough to actually be plausible. Cheap here matter more than perfect, since the problem of emitting CO2 from fossil fuel plants is better (but more slowly) solved by phasing out fossil fuel.

But how does this work for scrubbing CO2 from general atmosphere, is it anywhere close to an option? Once we have 'solved' the problem of no longer emitting CO2, we will almost certainly still have way more CO2 in the atmosphere than we want. Does this new scrubber material make it feasible to reduce the CO2 from the atmosphere, or will it be more economical to deal with the symptoms of high CO2 levels?
For me LinkedIn just became another kind of FB, with people writing stupid posts, trying to present themselves as smart and successful and beautiful and PC and blah blah blah.

Not for me, thank you very much.
Yes, and after societies grew larger than villages, many of them started coming up with things like "courts" and "due process".

Thankfully we're moving back to a more openly reputation-based system. I'm currently looking for a group of seven respected men that will swear oaths to my innocence if I'm accused of anything.
For anyone using the "fediverse", I would strongly recommend standing up your own instance because that's the only way to guarantee and retain your presence online. I understand that this is not for everybody.

I'm not referring to Mastodon/mastodon.social here, but a platform that's similar in nature. I wouldn't mind the fediblock police as much if there were to be some engagement on any actions (preferably good faith conversations). One thing I learned is that on the fediverse, one could be banned for no offense, with no warnings and no support whatsoever. It's almost no different from losing one's Twitter account or Google account, except that for the latter you can cry loudly on HN or another platform and possibly get some help. On the fediverse, one day your account works and the next day it could vanish without a trace. No responses from the admin (usually even the larger instances are run by a single person) and if there are any responses, they take weeks or months.

The various server/platform instances (including the flagship ones) may not have clear policies for moderation and may cover things up with short and ambiguously worded terms.
In the past 6 months I accidentally transitioned to only using BeReal, the finiteness of the app is really comfortable, in its current state you get a quick little update, send yours and the whole thing is over in 2 minutes. I hope it doesn't get ruined, but I also have no idea how they are keeping the lights on.
Sort of makes sense, although his statements are pretty ambiguous. It would make more sense to have a profile option to indicate that it is a parody account and then have some indicator. However, the people he banned were just trying to prove a point about how stupid the new checkmark system is. I don't think it is worth banning them over it until the new verification system is rolled out. He should have just put a temporary pause on name changes for checkmarked accounts.
It is very likely that there is a lot more cause to make one's blood boil today, especially with the growing radicalisation of those who enjoy being contrarian for the sake of it.

One can't blame the news for being a mirror. Especially where I live (India), it is almost a joke to suggest (as so many here do) that the media should focus on "positive" stories - when doing so would be Goebbelsian.
I don’t think anyone claims to be a “free speech absolutist.” And this instead seems to be a straw man label applied.

So it seems confusing when people talk about free speech absolutism as it’s a one sided argument.

My interpretation is that there’s a free speech principle and it’s always had limits (eg, threatening someone’s life, inciting immediate violence). But it’s about drawing the line of what speech is allowed or disallowed.
> Yeah, I debated commenting about the somewhat-crippled cross-platform support that recently landed, but that was really just in response to Zoom taking the ball away from their court and Apple being desperate to try and get it back.

Not really; Apple simply doesn't move that fast. You can certainly see projects get more resources as a result of trends, but that isn't necessarily going to move the release forward a year.
Also some cool sandstone walls (Elbe Sandstone):
https://mapy.cz/zakladni?m3d=1&height=174&yaw=-30&pitch=-19&...
Looking at the last events, Musk sure seems unaware of that.

First he whined about advertisers leaving. Then he threatened to publicly shame them. Then he asked for feedback, got some constructive feedback from some huge ad exec, and promptly blocked him.

He appears to have messed with AOC's account because he didn't like her arguing with him.

He already seems to be reversing on his free speech ideals and is instituting permanent bans that he said he was opposed to.

I don't know what's up with him, but it's hardly a shining example of reputation management that's for sure.

And it's been what, a week?
To be entirely fair "it's in my profile" isn't exactly visible if you just browse twitter and don't explicitly click on the user
Never e-meet your heroes I suppose. But you know, your mind is your own, you can just literally ignore or make peace with parts of reality you find unpleasant.

It seems quite strange to me how people clamor for push button blinders on what is actual life. You are not a horse to be led around by an app.
Don't (just) be afraid of Bandcamp folding - be afraid of artists folding. Some years ago I purchased a few tracks by an artist on Bandcamp, downloaded them as Ogg Vorbis - and now, almost ten years later, I wanted to re-download them as FLAC for archival, but the artist has completely shut down their Bandcamp page. It's a bit of an extraordinary case but serves as a good reminder to download in the highest-possible quality at the earliest possible point in time. It doesn't help that it was a really niche artist and there are no warez copies of his tracks, at least not in the open web.
$3M of that daily loss is just in paying interest on the $13B of debt he loaded up the company with to pay off the old shareholders
Chances are that PostgreSQL will be more performant on FreeBSD, but that would require a wee-bit of very specific fine-tuning for specific workload pgsql is doing and it would ultimately be thanks to ZFS, which I think is default on FreeBSD ( would work on linux as well, if setup correctly ). See here for more info on how and why's - https://people.freebsd.org/~seanc/postgresql/scale15x-2017-p...
Why would Jesus tag himself? Should we also force @toothfairy and @santaclause to do so?
> via a big banner picture

I guess that doesn't appear in the feed though?
5+ years ago Whatsapp was pretty much the standard for all my network (apart from my US colleagues still using SMS a lot). But over the last 5 years its fragmented a LOT. I often have conversations with same friends across >1 messaging app.
But at least they'll apologize for that.
Not sure what the confidence intervals of these numbers are. For example, the BH14NS40 drive is listed with an accuracy of 99.4937, whereas the WH14NS40 is listed with 98.0869. These are the same model of drive with the black and the white front respectively.
>You'd anyway likely need an app like WhatsApp or Telegram to keep track of everybody and everything - and those technically ARE considered social media right?...

Are they? I don't consider WhatsApp, Telegram and the like as social media. I don't know if there's a definitive definition for what is or isn't social media. But my own definition is that social media is a medium where you have your discussions in public. So Twitter, Facebook, Discord.. etc. [And, by that definition, I suppose a lot of forums and even HN discussions would be social media].

WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. I'd class more as private communications, alongside email and written letters.

>I don't think absolutely 0 social media is feasible or even wise this day in age. How are you going to keep up with family, friends, and so on?...

I use Telegram for that. I have managed to persuade everyone in my family to join Telegram and a lot of my friends are on it too. I've set up a Family Channel which includes siblings, in-laws etc. where we can all share the latest goings on within the extended family and swap photos etc. All the social interaction we need, with a geographically scattered family, to all keep in touch. But without the [to me, anyway] incomprehensible need that so many other people seem to feel to broadcast our private family and circle of friends business to the entire world.

On the rare occaasions I've looked at social media content --especially Twitter or Facebook, I'm gobsmacked by the way conversations between people reveal so much personal info about themselves. It's like a huge number of social media users have some kind of mental block whereby they think if they @friend some really personal stuff, only @friend will see it. When the reality is @friend, @enemy, @employer, @parents, @spouse, @anyone-who-happens-to-be-passing-by... etc. are now privvy to that personal info.

I wonder how many of these people are also concerned about buying a Chinese phone, in case it 'spies' on them. When they're broadcasting practically their entire personal life, for all the world to see.
Twitter's TOS[0]: "To avoid confusing others about an account’s affiliation, parody, commentary, and fan accounts must distinguish themselves in BOTH their account name and bio."

Ethan Klein's account wasn't noted as a parody in its name. Its name was Elon Musk.

Klein's account had Elon's account's profile picture and name, and had a verification badge. I think its totally sensible that the account got banned.

[0]https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/parody-accoun...
I keep up with my closest friends with a Signal group chat, and the rest of my friends just text/call/email me to get in touch.

I guess your point that “anything can be social media if you call it that” is… technically true linguistically, I have genuinely no idea what that has to do with people that choose not to use Facebook/Instagram/Twitter.
> By the way we dont need a new article every time elon posts a change on twitter. Wait a month and write an article about all of them

But advertisers do
> If you're not paying for numbers, what are you paying for then?

Oh honey...
In the video embedded in the article, in addition to the musician playing the octobass, there are three other performers; they all seem to be playing some sort
of double bass that seems to have perhaps 6 strings? The shape of the pegbox is unconventional. I've never seen such an instrument before, can someone explain what is it?
I mostly agree with you.

> Still, if the BBC are paying big salaries for 'big' name journos they have to promote them.

But maybe they could let the content speak for itself.
I'm passionate about ML. I've been a fan of Generative AI since the start (CycleGAN and pix2pix) back in 2016. Currently playing around with dreambooth and building a few apps.
"Elon Musk (parody)" as a display name is very visible and yet apparently violates Twitter's rules.
Worth to note that just like US, Canada and Australia, the market share of iPhone in UK is above 50%, whereas Europe average is <40% pushing Apple to #2 or lower.

The Smartphone Premium Tier device-segment (>600 USD w/o subsidy) makes up ~50% of all sales in UK, which firmly positions Apple far FAR in the lead in this segment, just like in US, UK, AU,...
This is also not evenly distributed geographically (cities have a much higher sales of iPhones than rural areas).

--> There are barely any "tribes" left in the higher income-brackets of UK. A person who can afford an iPhone likely owns an iPhone, so non-iPhone users are either "quirky exotics" (i.e. using a foldable device) or very likely in a lower income bracket.

The lower income bracket is where the fringe of Apple/Android is, and that's where the argument of "iPhone means I'm successful" / "Android means I'm smarter" is really happening (~400USD w/o subsidy).

So if you're in one of the above english-speaking countries and you don't notice this argument, you're likely in a higher income bracket and likely live in a city.
Note: this applies to both pro-crypto and anti-crypto folks.
I don't see how decimal-to-binary conversion would have anything to do with the TIA chip. I suspect that it used a polynomial counter instead of a binary integer counter because it used fewer gates and had less delay.

By the way, the CPU, like many others back then, could do addition and subtraction with binary-coded decimals.
Actually this was the HTML title (different from the headline used on the page)
I'm guessing that one of the headline was the original that got edited but their publishing system doesn't change the HTML title.

<title>Russian Oligarch's Seized Yachts Are Costing Tax Payers Millions - Bloomberg</title>
Typewriters and dot matrix printers were monospace. It had nothing to do with lining code up.

When I attended university in the mid-1990s, and again in mid-2000s, we were required to hand in papers using monospace font, black ink, with a specific point size and margins.

It kept everything looking consistent with typewriters (which some people still used through the 1990s), but also kept people from using distracting or illegible fonts, or trying to work around page or word limits by using different fonts.
The Mega Drive Mini 2 is a complete unit that retails for $99 including 60 games. Just the DE-10 nano alone is more than double that, and a full MISTer kit probably can't be had for less than $400, and you still have to (legally, of course, and those retro carts ain't cheap, and you're going to need to buy some adapters to dump the ROMs). "I'm more compelled by this thing that's at least four times the price, probably more" isn't really saying much.
It can be argued that "labelled" parody ceases to be comedy at all.
"It's a private company, they can do whatever they want."(sic)
I certainty don't don't have your expertise here. It sound like a case of doomed if you do, doomed if you don't. If you don't keep updating incrementally you have difficult single updates and issues stick around for longer. If you update incrementally you have a lot of issues with tracking all the different versions and potential inconsistency. Its really quite a bit like software in terms of rolling release vs stable upgrades.

What I mean by 'manage with software' is that each car has an exact description of what hardware is in it. Meaning what revision of every part. Tesla has some advantage because they manage the process end to end, knowing exactly what vehicle was sold to what costumer and the control the service center and write the diagnostic software so the service center should know exactly what car they are working on and what potential problems each revision of the software has.

In the 70s when Deming advocated for this such extensive version tracking would likely be much harder.
I've been happy with `rename` when I need it.
First part of deletion went out in v12, we should wrap up the rest in v13!
Working at Tesla/SpaceX puts you at the cutting edge of your field. It's probably worth a few trade-offs - and I'm sure it pays a hell of a lot more.

Working at Meta/Google doesn't necessarily do that. I'm almost certain most of these companies' moonshot divisions are not as well-run as many startups, nor are these companies assured success in these areas.

Their main products are already at a "don't fix it if it ain't broke" stage, even though many will claim these are broken. I doubt it's exciting work.

Working at Tesla or SpaceX will be like working on a moonshot that's actually taking off. I'm sure it's a thrill. But increasingly, I don't think Musk is level-headed enough to be trusted with such things.

It takes time to reject nitwitted leaders, so we can't expect employees to abandon ship overnight just to prove my point.
Maybe it was unrelated?
I think it’s clear that this is definitely a waste of 44billion. What a staggering amount of money. But I think Twitter has more leeway than people think.

First of all, the vast majority aren’t just going to move. The celebrities won’t because their followers are still on it. Everyone else won’t because by all accounts Mastodon isn’t as easy to signup with as twitter (I’ve not tried, and don’t care enough to to). And they rest of us just kinda read twitter and frankly don’t care if it crashes and burns.

All the big accounts I follow, simply started cross posting. So I expect nothing much to happen.

However given how much attention Twitter gets, even appearing in the news, and possibly swaying public opinion, I might be eating my words if it maintains popularity but turns into a dumpster fire.
That's a great point, but isn't the arguement to make that information employee owned, so no real connection with companies and GDPR?
If you use a platform just for that, it seems fine. The problem is when you use multiple platforms under the excuse that you need to keep up with family. The problem is the distractions that the platform is pushing to you, making you waste a significant amount of time.

10 years ago, I had a Facebook account and the rule to have up to 50 contacts ("friends") that I was using 10 minutes per day. When that was no longer possible, I closed the account.
Usurpating identities is illegal, parodies are not. Where exactly is the debate here?
Windows 10 search is much better if you turn off web searches. But of course Microsoft being Microsoft require you to modify some obscure registry key to do that.
There is such a thing as a product-minded engineer, but FB's interview process does not select for them.
Parody is not necessarily comedy.
without taking sides, I want to point out that the banner is not a viable way to label things since blind people for example can't access the text.
I listened to the BBC World Service (and VOA and Radio Moscow and many others) via shortwave "back in the day" and the reporter was always introduced by name, and even if they hadn't, they were identifiable by the sound of their voice.
There are lists of such lists:

* https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness

* https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
You can moderate on any criteria you want, actually!

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatsStandingUp only allows cats standing up, and the only text message allowed is "Cat."

You could run a purely technical community and say that anything non-programming related is offtopic and not allowed.

You could aggressively minimize drama. Controversial subjects are not allowed. Please post some pictures of your cat and talk about the weather.

Really the options are limitless.