skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, I remember when that was first posted. I just burned a lot of time going back and rereading some of the comments on HN. To be honest, I got tears in my eyes reading the original blog post.

People can be mean sometimes. I know a lot of people call out Twitter as particularly toxic or that it is hard to express yourself clearly in 140 chars. Personally I have a Twitter feed that is filled with positivity and reality and takes on life that educate and uplift me and give me hope for the future. (Threads, anyone?) (Sometimes the reality can be quite depressing. But I can guarantee you nobody is shitting on others like this in my feed. I know there are many problems with Twitter. But to all the people who made it possible for me to learn from so many diverse and brilliant people, a big fucking thank you for that. You have brought me immense joy and made me a more thoughtful and better educated person. I will do my best to remember that no matter what happens.)

I’m finding it hard to resist posting further negativity.

I think Kendrick Lamar said it best:

> In the land where hurt people hurt more people,

> Fuck callin’ it culture…
I believe I can afford posting a little "trope" since HN's frontpage is being flooded (spammed) by Mastodon posts
Ok, I guess parody is not comedy? This freedom thing is hard to keep up with.
Spain's New Digital Nomad Law Is a Game Changer
This is actually what drove the streetcar development process in LA, but instead of renting it out, the developers/car operators just sold it and peaced out. This left the trams to atrophy, separated from the land value they drove until the car companies bought them to put a nail in the coffin.
This just in: Comedy illegal again.
So force the user to block and mute users they never followed in the first place? No.
They are saying that their workflow is superior to the Vim workflow, which is what I was referring to. Didn’t mean to come off as patronizing
I kept LinkedIn account alive. enjoying those spam letters telling me how much xx new contacts I got. might even log in and take a look who's that if/when I'll look for a new job
But only with regards to health issues that affect their workplace performance. I don't think they are covered for problems that may affect them outside of normal working hours. Speaking of which, I don't think their work/life balance is that great.
Not so fast, persona!

https://cancerletter.com/guest-editorial/20220729_5/
Nah, I'd rather say my piece. There isn't anything but toxicity to be had in conversation with someone who unironically takes the position that people changing their screen names to Elon Musk are impersonating him.

Those banned are trolling him, plain and simple, and if you comment as though you can't see that, you deserve some judgement and scorn.
Yes, Demings came to Ford after they got their ass kicked.

Yes Tesla had to re-learn a lot about manufacturing. They certainty didn't start out being good. But by now they are doing pretty well.
There was a whole fad of people with verified accounts changing their name and profile picture to Elon and using this to make jokes until they got banned. Also mocking the "you can just buy a bluetick now" policy.

A few days ago Elon posted "comedy is now legal on twitter". I guess this is a caveat to that.
If "they" try to stop him from voicing his opinions, you'd have a point. But "they" only stopped this person from imposing his opinions on people who had chosen instances whose policies involved a certain style of moderation.

The benefit of the fediverse is exactly that any moderation or blocks do not stop your speech - no matter if it's actually abhorrent or just unpopular with the wrong people - it merely lets people opt out of listening to you.
How did it affect you?
> But we can band together and prevent you from making us party to your conversations against our will, and we can prevent you from being part of our conversations against our will.

This is Robber's Cave experiment [1] all over again: A society that does no longer talk with each other and is segregated (e.g. along political lines) will at first become hostile between different factions within it, and eventually break.

Filter bubbles ultimately destroy civil society and democracy.

[1] https://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html
My contribution to the collection of truisms:

I like working at home, but I hate living at work.
unlabelled satirical identity theft is identity theft
That sounds great! Sorry I didn't mean to put off efforts like this (not that I have by the sound of it but you see what I mean).

Maybe it's not the motivation for the blog but how it's distributed that can cause problems? If someone writes a half-arsed article about what they've recently learnt about C++ references, for example, then posts it to /r/cpp where everybody already knows that stuff better than they do - that is annoying.
I buy my colleagues two charges: one for portable use, and one that is tidied neatly behind their desk.

Since Apple has supported USB-C charging, I buy generic chargers with a cord-brick-cord arrangement, as these are much easier to hide in the cable tray of the desk. They're also about a third of the price, and have proper cable grommets so they last longer.
I think Scott Alexander's recent post about this made a good point. (https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/moderation-is-differen...) He draws the distinction between censorship (stopping people from getting messages they want to recieve) and moderation (stopping people from getting messages they don't want to recieve). With those definitons censorship is bad and moderation is good.

Mastodon isn't as simple as the model he imagines (simple click-boxes to select what kind of messages you want) but it does give you moderation (on your local instance) while still letting you avoid censorship (by moving instances if necessary).
I got post restricted on Facebook for quoting Futurama's Bender Rodriguez: "kill all humans"
uh oh what has happened here?

first I take full responsibility for "intelligent" auto correct on the phone in a rush in the morning, though. It's like "full self driving": at this time and age I, the driver, have full responsibility, not my "intelligent" "keyboard".

it also capitalized Al, Al dente as in Al Capone.

Now, with this creature out in the wild, I feel like Frank N Stein. Forgive me! ;-)
It takes a fair amount of maturity and character strength to be the object of public ridicule over one's abilities, and proceed to write a calm blog post about it calling it out. I was impressed, also by the follow-up.

I'm sure the vast majority of people would have either reacted defensively and been intimidated into taking the project down, or reacted angrily (and likely still modified or taken the project down).
Or just use lists. Create list, add people you want to follow. Bam, done. Reverse chronological order with zero ads.
You are describing an experience closed to the old forums of early 2000. I am still an active member of such a forum, we are less than 50 active people that interact for almost 20 years, we meet face to face quite rarely because we live now in several different countries (we were all in one initially) and overall is a nice atmosphere of spending a bit of time with old friends, just async and without the commute time to the same bar.
Did you clear cookies or try from an incognito browser? Facebook tries pretty damn hard to stick around even if you're logged off
Identity theft is not a joke, Jim.
The problem of current round-the-clock media is the inevitable lack of actually meaningful events to present. Real meaningful events are rare and cannot solely drive the for-profit ad-driven legacy media and social media. As a result, we see unnecessary "news" like: this public figure said something stupid, discussion on the implications of that, interviewing solely to instigate the interviewee to say something edgy and then broadcast it as breaking news, etc. And social media sites pioneered the idea of getting creators to constantly churn out "content" to catch the attention of the users. News should be event-based like: hurricane to hit this part of the world, and actually useful to the public like: parliament passes this law and what you should know about it and not what you should feel about it. And social media should be used in regulation, if at all.

An actually useful news source would be the one which periodically lists the important happenings in the local area and (optionally) a couple of sentences about them.
Or god forbid that you find out a week after the event that Mavis, your cousins aunt went to the shops only to discover that you couldnt get any green apples today.
Oww, come on, there is no way it could have been vertical, and even if it was, it would be way too short, given the diameter, to allow for a meaningful air cushion.

Besides, in actual hammer arrestors both inlet and outlets would have been at the very bottom.
We have a deep answer and a business answer.

Business answer: Automation saves money; makes humans do more things. The AI-generated content doesn't has to be perfect to be useful. Like 80% good is enough!

Deep answer: We believe artists nor human art isn't going anywhere! We enjoy the process of art being created. Look at Insta/TikTok/Shorts how artists are still growing by sharing their creation process.

Conclusion:

Art for business will be automated. As we said, it only has to fail 20% of the time to be acceptable.

Artists can leverage their personal story and authenticity to still thrive in the era of AI-generated content.
Oh dear. I think you misunderstood!
I'm sorry you had to go through that. Unfortunately I find it's not uncommon for anything that gets publicity. Let's call out bullies for sure and just stay strong in your belief in yourself that they only took notice because someone else appreciated it enough that they wanted to share it.

I like to speak at local Python events. I know the audience and enjoy giving back to the community in terms of sharing tips and tricks that I find useful. Some of the videos are posted online. Most have tens, maybe a few hundred views. One video got picked up by a popular coding channel and reposted on their channel. Within days it has tens of thousands of views. After the initial excitement of this development, I started to read the comments and it was not pretty.

"So boring",
"Great topic, but you won't learn that from this Muppet.",
...

It took me a while to process those. Then I turned to focus on the many more positive comments. Even if it helps just one person, that's a positive impact you had on someone which is a wonderful privilege to have been able to do.

Always remember it's not the critic that counts, but the person in the arena:
https://youtu.be/A311CnTjfos
he may be found lying again, but it's good that those accounts will be tagged as parody if they are still going to be allowed. May solve those crypto scams etc.

I wonder if @jesus will tag himself

I also suggest a <sarcasm> tag as is customary on reddit. it s time we accept that on internet humor will come with PG ratings from now on

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
All these posts regarding Mastodon start to feel like spam (or at least forced promotion), nothing really interesting in that post...
> And yet we have millions of workers picking simple shaped objects manually every day around the world.

It's designed to be like that

> Automation, the most advanced sector of modern industry as well as the model which perfectly sums up its practice, drives the commodity world toward the following contradiction: the technical equipment which objectively eliminates labor must at the same time preserve labor as a commodity and as the only source of the commodity. If the social labor (time) engaged by the society is not to diminish because of automation (or any other less extreme form of increasing the productivity of labor), then new jobs have to be created. Services, the tertiary sector, swell the ranks of the army of distribution and are a eulogy to the current commodities; the additional forces which are mobilized just happen to be suitable for the organization of redundant labor required by the artificial needs for such commodities.

Guy Debord, 1967
Have you seen https://genart.social/? Unfortunataly it looks like registration is closed right now. You could follow users you like using RSS and join when registrations open again, or maybe someone you know on twitter has an account there can send you an invite.

You can also create an account on any mastodon server and follow users from genart.social, but it's more fun to be in the middle of it.
But then you only get opinions of those ppl that engage in the sort of "discussions" OP talks about.
You really aren't exposed to real ppl opinions, only the opinions of the most crazy and or manipulative.
"I came to the bar, picked a bunch of fights, and they had the audacity to ban me!" -- zero star Yelp review
Do Telegram and other chat apps count as social media? In my mind they are separate but I could be wrong?
Instead of ngnix you could use caddy as a docker container too.
Title: "habits" (a habbit sounds like a type of hobbit :-) )
Thank you for all your work. I've learned a very great deal from you and hopefully given the world a little more quality Python.
It was unfortunate timing, but Musk made his offer on the 14th of April, this instance was launched on the 25th

I admire your faith in it but there's no way in hell two different branches of the Commission were able to coordinate a deployment, ask for the budget, make all the preparations on anything in two weeks

I would be shocked if it took them less than 6-8 months to organize it all
Unfortunately, that does not translate to lower customer-end prices.
Some ISPs have this kind of function (usually because "won't someone think of the children"). You could hand your account details to your ISP to a friend to enable such a function.
Haters gonna hate. I feel like this has got better over the past few years but there was certainly a culture where being nasty online was acceptable. When I was a teenager I was playing around with web design and posted the finished design on a facebook group. I got the exact same response 'this made my eyes bleed'. Certainly knocked confidence but ultimately it says more about those people that their lives are so sad they have to put others down to feel better themselves. Classic bully stuff.
Real pro tip: just use an ad blocker.
I don't get how this "free speech absolutism" stuff has exceptions. Seems contradictory

For example the more left wing people don't call themselves that bc they know that banning hate speech means not having total free speech. Why do people like Elon and his fans argue that they can still vouch for total free speech while banning certain forms of expression?

EDIT: I'm rate limited so can't reply. Elon Musk has called himself a "free speech absolutist" multiple times
I have not tried recently to use BSD as a desktop, which is likely to have problems when using many recent GPUs, due to the lack of device drivers (but NVIDIA provides FreeBSD drivers, not only Linux, so I have used FreeBSD on a signage appliance with a fanless NVIDIA GPU).

However, when using a system without a GUI, e.g. for a networking or storage server, in most cases FreeBSD is definitely much easier to use than Linux.

There are a huge number of small details that matter. Even for something as simple as seeing the status of the network interfaces. If I type "ifconfig" without arguments on FreeBSD, it shows everything that I want to know, about all network interfaces. To obtain the same information on a Linux system, I have to type a large number of "ip" commands, each with many arguments that I fail to remember even after decades of using "ip", so I may need to consult the "man" page for "ip". (The legacy ifconfig of Linux does not provide the functionality of FreeBSD ifconfig)

In general, for any network-related task, using ifconfig and ipfw on FreeBSD is much easier than using ip and iptables on Linux.

There also many more niche applications where there are big differences. For example the "mt" command for magnetic tape control sucks badly on Linux, but it is very convenient on FreeBSD. Also for SCSI devices FreeBSD has more flexible commands.

While audio seems to be improving on Linux with things like pipewire, for a long time audio was in many cases easier to configure on FreeBSD than on Linux with the dreaded ALSA or pulseaudio, if the audio hardware was supported. Also, when I had to configure once some USB surveillance cameras, that was easier on FreeBSD with webcamd, than on Linux, but like for audio, FreeBSD has a shorter list of supported devices.

Some of the differences in the user interface between FreeBSD and Linux are caused by FreeBSD being more conservative, while in Linux some older tools have been replaced with newer tools, but the newer tools have been made with worse user interfaces, like in the replacement of ifconfig with ip, or in the introduction of ALSA and pulseaudio, which both have an extremely poor user interface, especially for computers with multiple audio devices.
Flag them. You might be able to afford the trope comments but collectively, the forum can't otherwise it turns into just that.
"Hyperloop", "Boring company", "Self driving cars by the end of this year", "Tesla truck beat rail", "Sells flamethrowers".

I'll rest my case.
For opening hours and phone numbers, Google Maps seems to cover that fine in my area. It's not great, as it's still a private company, but Maps is ran more like a public utility, at least compared to Facebook.
Coming up with actually good, creative things is deceptively simple yet surprisingly difficult; in fact it's quite a slog.

I've been working on a new data format [1] that I'd expected would take me two years to create. 5 years later, I'm finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. The format that exists now is almost unrecognizable compared to the initial version, or even what I had after the first year of development (digging through the git repo would prove interesting).

Other than devouring every data format spec I could get my hands on, one big help was to _leave_ it for weeks, even a month, and then come back to it. This allowed me to view something with a fresh perspective that I simply couldn't see if I were working on it every day.

Case in point: Unicode escapes.

I wasn't happy with the current state of affairs for unicode escapes (\uDDDD or \UDDDDDDDD) which are clunky. I wanted something better, without the zero stuffing.

My first incarnation was as follows:

* backslash
* a digit from 0-9 specifying how many hex digits follow
* that many hex digits

So for example \0 is NUL, \19 is TAB, \51f415 is dog, etc.

Sure, it works, but that length prefix really makes it hard to read.

A year after that, I came up with the following:

* Initiated with \+
* The hex digits to represent the codepoint
* .

So for example \+0. is NUL, \+9. is TAB, \+1f415. is dog, etc.

That was much less confusing, since the numbers are properly isolated from the escape characters.

It wasn't until months later that I finally spotted the obvious after a break:

* Initiated with \{
* The hex digits to represent the codepoint
* }

So for example \{0} is NUL, \{9} is TAB, \{1f415} is dog, etc.

And there have been so many of these moments that never would have happened if I'd pushed the format through after only 2 years.

[1] https://concise-encoding.org/
"style of moderation"? what does that mean? I don't agree with what GP said, but on what basis could you moderate his posts? Because they aren't "true"? In that case why not say that your instances bans all "untrue" things? how simple!
It seems (based on the headline and article) that parody is allowed.
Plus there are many use cases where it would be nice to have professionally made, unique art, but the costs of creating it would simply be too high.

For example, a group of friends sitting around playing D&D, would not likely commission custom artwork for each of their characters. With tools like stable diffusion, you could have a set of several images of each character, as well as for NPCs, landmarks, runes and so on, all in an afternoons work, with some knowledge of the tech.
Show HN: I built VS Code extension for Node.js package management
They're only listing new drives. Plextor hasn't made their own transports for a long time.
We're holding-off on running the heating in anticipation of having to
crank it up to 11 come January.

What's galling about the stupidity of mass media is their ability to
spin a story by focusing on 4 weeks, without any scope or informed
consideration of a bigger picture.
I guess it's still ok if it's labelled. The labelling is the issue, not the comedy, isn't it?
Speaking about electrical kettle: why aren't there insulated kettles that would help me save energy when I re-boil water after 20 minutes?

EDIT: Ah, there are some: https://www.amazon.com/DASH-Insulated-Electric-Kettle-Cordle...
Unless it's winter where you're heating your house anyway, in which case the gas hob is more efficient.

But gas is a lot cheaper than electric anyway so I wouldn't expect a kettle to be much cheaper.
Labeled parody accounts are already being banned.
I'm sorry for reinforcing my bias publicly, unfortunately to late to edit. Thank you.
Nahh that is totally different. When you were not into social media - it was weird and creepy. Now not being into social media is liberating and responsible.

You wouldnt understand ...
"NOOOOOO not that kind of spree speech guys, I meant the one where we all agree with the bs I come up with"
Yes, funny that.
I've not paid attention to that detail of the news website. We but we've always had named correspondents on BBC Radio news. And newsreaders for that matter.
Yeah h3h3 was totally clearly labelled and got banned
Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not an identity thief
You went from saying the security risks are gaslighting to saying you need to make usability and risk compromises.
> I wish there was a way i could ban my IP

I thought of something like a reverse robots.txt, a file residing in your device(s) that could tell servers you don't want to see news nor social features. Something like no-news.txt or even no-social.txt.
> I guess you could have a hot spot on the pan if the coils are ill-designed or you’re putting a large pan on a small burner?

Yes, but then it’s hardly a problem with the technology if you put a large pan on a small burner.

As for the rest, in all cookers I have seen, the coils cover the whole surface, except for a small spot in the centre. Besides, induced current does not happen only where the cookware is closest to the coil. The magnetic field is more spread out than that and the heating surface is larger than just the surface of “contact” (there is no real contact, but anyway).

I assume there could be an exceptionally badly designed induction cooktop with hot spots (it’d have to have a very weird geometry, though), but that would take some effort.
Unmentioned in the article is that accounts parodying Musk, clearly labeled as parodies, are being suspended and banned:

https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1589499887900819457

https://twitter.com/xor/status/1589402790732128256
No back seat?
Fission is not a good energy solution for the outer solar system (except maybe on Titan) because of the need for a detour through a clunky heat engine. Likewise, hot-neutron fusion.

Layered mirrors concentrating monochromatic solar irradiation into laser cavities, and beaming power to where needed, is the fallback until aneutronic fusion works.