skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2 Aug 2018 — Why people are choosing to quit social media. Many people make an active choice not to be on social media. What motivates them?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05y8m4l

19 July 2017 - 'I felt relieved' - What happens when you ditch social media

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-40654983

30 August 2016 - Picture perfect: How helpful is social media for our mental health?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37218059

Social media regulation debate - and much much more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cvw0z7ezezkt

Yeah probably all about Musk right.
If we're "being fair", having to label every thought you tweet with "PARODY" to not be banned is fucking bananas.

And it's nearly 180 degrees from what any reasonable person would call "free speech".
Good.

I have a hard time seeing how antitrust regulators would green light acquiring the combined Activision and Blizzard IP right on the tail end of the Bethesda acquisition.

Especially seeing how almost immediately Bethesda games announced for cross platform became exclusives.

Even if MS commits to CoD staying cross platform for a few years, is Diablo 4? What about IP currently in development?

Start new studios or something. But just throwing your trillion dollar weight around to buy up all the third party games to starve out your competition is LITERALLY what antitrust regulation was created to prevent.
Came to a freedom respecting alternative to Twitter. Voiced an opinion that is not racist: just not agreeing with govt policy. Got kicked out for having an opinion.

Mainly I'm interested in the two fediverses, as a reflection of society.

On Twitter it seems Musk is trying to cater for both on one platform. Interesting.
The whole "Elon backing off the twitter deal" story was about fake accounts wasn't it?
Impersonation is somewhat different from core free speech issues. It was less of a problem in tight 18th century societies where people knew one another and strangers were viewed with suspicion anyway. On the Internet, though...
Knowing this I would like to order an expansion pack for my brain of another 100B neurons.
Yes, it feels like cherry picking when people say something like "climate change makes severe weather events more likely" in connection with a drought or unusually hot spell but ridicule anyone who tries to use a particularly cold winter as evidence that climate change is not happening.

We should avoid the association between climate and short term weather phenomenon altogether.

And yes, the COVID lockdowns showed the limits of individual action on climate change. Even if people can't leave their house (except for some limited purposes) the reduction in carbon emissions are relatively small. It's a problem for government and industry to solve in the main. The only difficulty is how to ensure that we elect governments who take it seriously without scaring some people?
I'd guess people use various twitter clients, and not all of them can show the banner clearly enough. Makes sense to require written text.

And I wouldn't complain too much about whatever is happening in the next few weeks. It's a transition period and not particularly meaningful - can't really tell if any one incident is due to deliberate policy, understaffing, work in progress or evolving goals.
Most people are already aware that these two are fictional.
As if Musk had any reputation left to save. We're talking about somebody who has canceled the Tesla order of a blogger who criticized him…
Hi end gas ranges will beat a good electric kettle in the USA. (kettle 7min, range <6 min). My wife picked up a used thermidor this last summer and it beats any kettle we’ve had in the USA so far by at least a minute. That said, the kettle is more convenient overall (auto shutoff, auto start, pour from same container), so we end up using it.

In the other hand the US kettle beat the crap out of our old gas range, and even the good range is not nearly as fast as a crappy electric kettle in germany, which clocks in at 4 min.
Having grown up with IRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN, Jabber, etc etc. I can say this was and is _always_ the case.

I have a group of friends who refuse to use Signal (because of the phone number requirement) and for several years the only channel we could agree on was Steam chat.

I have a side of my family that I have warned that I will only see their messages once a month because they will only use Facebook Messenger. I keep my Facebook account for them.
Can you expand on this or provide sources? At least in my countries the gas storage is now-empty gas fields that used to contain natural gas anyway, I have a hard time seeing how that could contaminate water sources.
Which was something that was obvious it would happen to anyone who thought more than 5min about the problem
If the whole point of your account is to make people laugh with the imaginary pretense that your posts are coming from another person/institution then yes, the potential readers should know it's fake.

A comic strip artist that I follow constantly puts fake words into famous peoples' mouths in his newspaper sections, but even tough I know it's fake I can still partake in the momentary delusion and get a good laugh
Anecdotally, I’m the opposite, I started using mainstream social media a year ago, I make sure to avoid toxicity and focus on actually beneficial interactions. So far it’s been fun.
>there is also a new dotnet.social server if you are into .NET

They should've called it C Hashtag.
Its a shit way of expressing data they collect. It means every single drive model had at least one owner try to rip badly scratched disk.
Ask HN: What is your experience as an engineer in a self managed organisation?
Curious about peoples experiences with growing your skills, lack of an Engineering Manager etc.

I just came across this one article: https://codingsans.com/blog/self-managed-teams but didn't find anything else on the internet about it.
Remember /r/TheDonald. The line between unlabeled parody and political movement can be pretty thin.
It comes down to the same thing as on corporate platforms: we got complaints, we shut you down. And on Mastodon the server can loose its federation links if the fediblock police deems you to be non-grata.
well i asked jesus and he said so
Seems like very obviously labelled accounts are also being banned. H3H3 put up a banner with a poorly written bright red "parody" and replied to his tweets with "this is a parody account" and still got suspended
Great. I am really liking the new Twitter.
Because that thing you call "free speech absolutism" isn't about free speech.

It comes from:

- people not understanding their own constitution

- people in privileged positions not understanding why we can't tolerate hate speech, harassment and similar

- a ton of modern fascists complaining that their posts where removed by moderation, or their accounts have been suspended, when spreading hate speech and misinformation. Some of this people are rather influential in conservative circles and/or wealthy.
No I think it fits perfectly AM, in Germany it is even called Motorfahrrad (MoFa, motorized bike). The pedals seem silly but I remember using them on step streets. Anyway just compare the specs here
https://bmdv.bund.de/SharedDocs/EN/Articles/StV/Roadtraffic/...
"a maximum design speed of up to 45 km/h"
"an electric motor or an internal combustion engine with a cubic capacity not exceeding 50 cc or
a maximum continuous rated power of up to 4 kW in the case of electric motors"

And the specs mentioned in the artikle
"...his brake layout again confirms that the bike is intended to fit the “50cc” moped category, with a top speed of 28 mph(~45 km/h) and no more than 4kW of power"
For the purposes of opening a bank account or for getting a loan then it would be considered identity theft. Pretending to be someone else online though? That's perfectly legal free speech in the US as far as I'm aware
>A few days ago Elon posted "comedy is now legal on twitter".

To be fair, that was several days ago. Elon has had plenty of time since to change what he wants to do in life and probably change his mind on whether or not to buy Twitter.
It was about Musk not wanting to buy it at the price he had offered. Because all tech stocks had dropped significantly in the meantime.
This works for rice and other grains too.

Another trick is that you don't need a giant pot of water, just enough to cover the pasta, especially for smaller pasta like penne/fusilli etc.
As a farmer, Twitter has shown to be the best place to keep abreast on what other farmers are trying in their operations. I've never met most of them, but insights into what they are doing is still useful information. It provides much the same charm as HN, where I've also not met most, for keeping abreast in what tech is doing.

Facebook has been useful as a modern day telephone book.

I don't see them as competing against real conversations. They serve a very different function.
You can't see the banner in your timeline though. I'd guess he knew that and that's why he put it there...
"Free speech absolutist" didn't last very long did it?
I agree. The show was particularly well written, especially regarding world-building and character development. Shame there won’t be a conclusion to Ford’s narrative, I feel like we would have seen him again in season 5.

Perhaps it was a bit too well-written; there were certainly times where it felt like the writers were entertaining their peers.
Maybe the incentives could be changed by not employing those people as long as it takes but by a fixed amount of time and instead making the project scope flexible. Once the main project is finished they can work towards some optional goals and get a bonus or something.
Show HN: Communick. Professionally managed Mastodon and Matrix servers
Does "clearly label your account" mean "choose some way to display that you are a parody account" or does it mean "there's a checkbox labeled 'parody' that you must check if you are a parody account"?
> Gayle, who is a life coach…

Of course she is.

What did it for me was June 2016 (aah, Brexit), and two blokes from very different parts of my life— whom I both love for very different reasons— went to the most perverse ad hominem attacks on each other (they have never even met) on my profile. Such a weird hatred that I decided I did not want to be a part of that.
That line comes up as a retort when people accuse twitter of violating the first amendment (which, as a private company, it is not bound by). In this case I don’t see anyone talking about the first amendment, just Musk’s claims that he wouldn’t prohibit any legal speech and that “comedy is now legal”.
Musk literally called himself a free speech absolutist and I can point to any number of HN commentators on threads involving Twitter, free speech etc that said the same thing.
Or bots for that matter (which might be more relevant here)
I just want to say that the EU was not breaking up trade with the USA, nor supported the underdog in the last 50 years of US invasions. Now these hypocrites cry "poor sovereign state got invaded for no reason but Putin being bad person" for months in a row.
There are pretty clear legal guidelines what is free speech, but I think people want to test the theory on if they ban accounts that don't violate the legal guidelines. Racism in itself isn't illegal nor being homophobic. There are plenty of right-wing grifters that make up stuff and call people pedos for being trans or gay on Twitter, and they don't get banned... I've even seen groups advocate for violence against these groups and not get banned for it. What I know for sure is that advertisers aren't going to want to deal with it becoming a polarized topic at congressional hearings.
I think in larger companies it becomes even more critical for a PM to shield the development team from ad-hoc sales/marketing requests. It's not that anyone is ill intentioned, but everyone tends to think the problem in front of them is the most critical, and may not be aware of everything else that's going on. A PM will hear any request, know the context of the request as well as the context of what the dev team is working on, and manage the expectations of the stakeholders if necessary. In a small startup, I would actually expect that this part of Product Management would be less important, since it's more likely that stakeholders are more aware of everything going on. In large companies, I think it would be crucial for keeping the development team happy & productive.
My understanding is the same as his. Is there any hidden message in your earlier post we missed?
Another option is https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ with an ad blocker. No ads, feed in order. I mostly follow people I know and my feed is very decent and for the most part positive.

To see the loons, I typically have to find a popular account and read replies, and the Tweetdeck URL even hides most of those (which is fine by me - makes me realising I'm wasting my life reading rubbish).
The historicity of Jesus of Nazareth and His ministry are not in any serious scholarly doubt.
Didn’t they restrict AOC’s account cause she criticized Musk? I don’t think that could be chalked up to “transition period.”
If only Twitter had some means by which one could verify one's identity and add a signifier to the account.
People with infuriating views still deserve respect. That's something Musk doesn't seem to understand.

If you express yourself the way you just did, lurkers and people on the fence will read your comment. If you employ thought terminating cliches ("bootlicker") then they'll filter you out as noise.
"Comedy is now legal on Twitter"

~ Elon Musk, 2022-10-28

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586104694421659648

Sounds like he forgot to label this one as a parody, eh?
Which makes sense given that gas storages have been filled almost to full capacity over the past weeks/months for prices much higher than they are now.
I mean the whole point of verification is that you "verify" who the person is.

Someone else (with a blue tick!) being able to impersonate another verified account, goes obviously against this.

It's literally the same people first complaining about "anyone can buy blue tick" and then "why am I banned by impersonating" - I guess you got what you wanted, no?

for the record, I don't think impersonators should be banned, simply that impersonating name changes should be reversed and/or impossible.

edit: on second thought, name changes of verified accounts should be disabled and/or limited (pending re-verification)
I'm digital_carver@qoto.org

I don't understand the appeal of things cohost. It just seems like "twitter, but this time we're good guys, we swear!"
Which, even if true right now, will certainly change if they get popular and become influential, because the pressures and incentives are too great. It takes some fundamental difference (like federation) to provide at least some safeguards against that.
No, deception and slander is not comedy.
> I don’t think anyone claims to be a “free speech absolutist."

Musk claims he is: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/08/1127689351/elon-musk-calls-hi...
Reminds me of https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz by user @ertdfgcvb on Twitter.
He's still a "free speech absolutist", but only for speech that he agrees with. Perfectly consistent.
> Can a commercial company forego that and take on greater risk? Of course, but they aren't likely to because they are more risk-adverse for a variety of reasons.

What we are seeing is actually the commercial company are far more willing to risk these things the governments.

Companies like Astra (not that I think they are good) almost celebrates blowing up rockets.

> Note that 100% of Falcon Heavy contracts are govt (military/NASA).

This is true but Falcon Heavy was developed on spec. DoD didn't pay for its development unlike for almost all other rockets the military uses or used historically.

> This has the potential to increase risk because it incentivizes rushed development. We saw this with CST-100. The only reason it came to light is because the mission did not go as planned, and as a result NASA started to trigger additional oversight (which slows down development).

Yes but it rewards those that do development well and punishes those that don't. Of course oversight and verification is still a function government has to provide for the goods they buy.

> This is part of why the CCP can move faster than NASA. They don't have to build to the same requirements as an in-house NASA build.

CCP is learning the same lessens that NASA has. They have constantly rockets blowing up. They will have to also establish internal requirements that they follow.

And honesty, in terms of rocket development there isn't much evidence that China is better or faster from what I can see. We also don't know how much China is spending on these things.

> As soon as they don't, NASA will start doing engaging more oversight. This has already happened with SpaceX, too. When some unfavorable things came to light, NASA wanted more govt in-person inspections/audits.

Sure they will check everything and want to know about potential problems. The intensive structure however is still aliened better. The functions of the different parts are aligned better. NASA can tell contracts to change some process and have done so before but that doesn't imply automatically that these contracts will then drop in efficiency to the point NASA would have been at.

NASA own efforts like Ares 1 were so catastrophic that basically convinced large parts of NASA to not try that again. And NASA had a huge amount of success with the new model.
There’s entire subreddits that are dedicated to slagging people. I suspect that it goes for almost every vocation, but I’m aware of ones dedicated to programmers (having been honored, myself).

Speaking only for myself, they may be absolutely correct, in their criticism (I know I’m a stuffy old coot, and use “quaint” techniques, like OOP), but I’d suggest that it’s a really bad idea to participate in these fora.

This article is Exhibit A. Three people have just been called out, on the front page of HackerNews, for snarky comments they made, almost a decade ago. I can’t imagine that it’s helpful for their careers. No one wants to work with a bully. I think the author has long since moved on, as I see her GH repos have been basically abandoned, long ago, and I wish her well.

That’s a big reason that I’m a stuffy old coot. Social media can last forever, so I make a point of not engaging in online pissing matches, and being as positive and encouraging as possible, even if it garners me scorn.

"The only things that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them."

-Camille Paglia

[UPDATE] I was interested in what she has had to say, and found this: https://heathermoor.medium.com/what-happens-when-you-retire-...

It appears that she's doing fine, but not really participating so much in open source.

It looks like her detractors are probably also OK.

Don't you just love happy endings?
Sorry I should have said left-brain
Mastodon is not much more than a nerdy echo chamber.
The decisions are seemingly rooted in Elon's personal insecurity more than in actual consistent policy that people can get accustomed to if they choose.

After all, Elon was just projecting when he complained about accounts getting unjustly banned due to hurting feelings of <INSERT BOGEYMAN>.
Employee owned ⇒ every person gets their own blockchain that they then can falsify at will, or there’s a single blockchain with items that are encrypted in a way that doesn’t even allow third parties to find out about whom each item is, and also allows individuals to selectively open up each of their individual items (otherwise, it isn’t fully “employee owned”.

The chain likely wouldn’t be more than “an item with secure hash Foo exists. Here it is, encrypted using whatever method its owner deemed acceptable at the time (maybe not even the latter. If I own the data, I should be able to improve its encryption, or remove it altogether)

That has some value; employees wouldn’t be able to retroactively insert stuff, but that’s about it.
I guess we've got to include some flat earthers in our space programme or we'll never get to Mars. Can't be in a filter bubble, after all.
I love how butt-hurt he got. People trolling him with his name and a blue check mark has been the highlight of Twitter for me post the acquisition.
Named in the article:

Jason Calacanis

tech investor, podcast host and longtime Musk associate

Jared Birchall

one of Musk’s closest advisers and manages the billionaire’s personal fortune as head of his family office

Alex Spiro

lawyer at New York law firm Quinn Emanuel

David Sacks

worked with Musk since the two were part of PayPal’s team

Sriram Krishnan

helps lead cryptocurrency investments at Silicon Valley venture capital heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz
Care to elaborate for the smaller chunk? ;-)
Lol, you mean since he joined twitter calling himself Cassandra, ranting about the crash we’re currently in? Yea, I follow him.
Android users aren't Apple users.

Keeping Apple users happy when it doesn't make them money directly may have strategic importance (which is why iMessage exists in the first place)

Keeping Android users happy when it doesn't make them money is a distraction.

Thats why they have iTMS and Apple Music and Apple TV and iCloud ported to other platforms - because those front paid services.
Free speech absolutists don’t want free speech. They want chaos. These are chaos monkeys. Who are Elon’s fans? Crypto bros and WSB incels.
That's what I'm bringing up - the economic issues are actually driving education cost, and it's not a coincidence that Quillette is banging on about the 71 diversity staff at an institution that employs 25,000 people instead. It's just a constant drip of subtle racist bilge that Quillette puts into all their articles.
For more comprehensive report, see:

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2022/november/labblood-study....

> "The lab-grown blood cells are all fresh, so the trial team expect them to perform better than a similar transfusion of standard donated red cells, which contains cells of varying ages. Additionally, if manufactured cells last longer in the body, patients who regularly need blood may not need transfusions as often. That would reduce iron overload from frequent blood transfusions, which can lead to serious complications."

They discuss automating the process, but the costs are still likely to be high as you'd need near-clean-room standards of sterility to avoid contamination problems - although that's also a problem with blood donation. Notably, some countries (incl USA, China) allow people to sell their blood, which tends to draw in poor and desperate people who may be more at risk of having transmissible diseases:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/plasma-...

In the long run however, this might become the normal process. Bio-synthetic blood cell production has been talked about for over 20 years, it's cool to see it actually happening. (Synthetic immune system cells are also an interesting possibility, i.e. white blood cells).
> An actually useful news source would be the one which periodically lists the important happenings in the local area

This is why I subscribe to a local news paper. It's much more interesting and more relevant to read about what is happening in and around my own town than what's going on in world politics or the other side of the world.
Ode to Joy (English Lyrics)
Its amazing how bad interpretation of statistical data can make you think.
> I'd guess people use various twitter clients

They don't. Twitter reigned that back in many years ago.

In fact Dorsey's new BlueSky project is a return to the early days of Twitter where they provide an API and let anyone build clients.