skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stopped using facebook and Twitter about 10 years ago. I can't say I noticed any difference back then.

The thing I am noticing now is that a larger part of civil society has moved to Facebook. I can't even find the opening hours or phone numbers of many restaurants, which means I just have to guess or not go at all. One company I quickly left had support through Facebook.

I hate it. And I think people are crazy to hand such a large chunk of society over to social media companies.
Obvious sealioning
Mastodon is, IMHO, more tightly moderated than Twitter, depending which side of the split-fediverse you are on.

See my other comment in this thread for my story.
It does have like 700+ stars and 91 forks; question how many of them are "ironical" but definitely doesn't look like "someone digged out a piece of old code and decided to have a joke"
I was about to comment, if you like Fortran's syntax for numerical computation, you should try Julia. I feel it's basically the spiritual successor to Fortran, without all the historical baggage.
I have a LinkedIn profile up as a form of a business card of sorts, but only ever go there if someone contacts me personally.
This is going about exactly as terrible as you'd have guessed it would. Usually there is some redeeming thing, but it doesn't look like there is in this case.

When they started the layoffs, and with such short notice, I just knew there was a 0% chance that they'd happened properly and with proper preparation. There's going to be so much domain knowledge and expertise that's been lost, and half the teams are probably just adrift and confused because they now either have to do 2x the work or 2x their timelines, at the very least. Doing 2x the work might then also mean doing a bunch of work you're not informed about, so it might actually be 3x or 4x the work for someone coming in.

If I had gotten the boot and they were asking me to come back, I don't think I'd be saying yes, unless it was necessary from a financial standpoint. And even then I'd only stick around until I found a new job, at which point I would quit without notice.
The seriousness of climate change is not lost on me, but your comment is rather heartless. In the UK the 'eating or heating?' question is real for many families this winter. It is fair to say that the warm October was a gift from the gods.
In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water activated gel cleanser. Then a honey almond body scrub. And on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
I've never owned a rice cooker but I'm led to believe the rice they make is superior to anything you can reasonably achieve in a simple pot.
I am passionate about the developments of AI/generating images.
Isn't this a thing? This is how I have been cooking for a long time - bring water to boil in kettle and use it to cook.
I feel like the individuals downvoting this should be investigated for ties to the CCP.
How can mastodon even scale once you get into millions of users? Won’t a popular server be completely destroyed?
Alternative take - people know what the EU is, but also know that they have no way to control or influence it. So they ignore it because it'll do whatever it's going to do anyway regardless of whether or not people think it's a good idea. For example participation in EU elections is low because they aren't elections to a real parliament. MEPs aren't allowed to change law or even start the process of changing the law, only the unelected Commission can do that, which in turn means they can't have policies beyond "support the Commission" or "try to slow things down", and thus there's little point in people paying attention to their campaigns.

There's an additional problem which is that at the highest levels the EU doesn't genuinely want people to know what it's doing. Consider that the EU is notoriously overrun with secret law making:

https://euobserver.com/eu-political/136630

This isn't meant to happen but does, and that's fully intentional. Former EU Commission President Juncker often remarked on the intentionally obfuscated nature of the EU:

"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back."

"Britain is different. Of course there will be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the attention of public opinion to this fact?"

"Monetary policy is a serious issue. We should discuss this in secret, in the Eurogroup [...] I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious [...] I am for secret, dark debates."

"When it becomes serious, you have to lie."

You can't be civically engaged with a government that from the very top has attitudes and policies like that.
I never understood the charm of social media… why should I care about what people I couldn’t care less think about my life (hence share what I do) and conversely why should I follow people I couldn’t care less. With the people I care I usually have real conversations… no need for social media.
Yeah the only reasons I can think of to cut it out entirely is because you want people to see how brave and pious you are, or because you're addicted and need to cut out the temptation to waste your life on Twitter entirely.

I can understand the latter, but there's nothing noble about refusing to use social media at all.
I wonder what a significant change in attitudes toward social-tech
will mean for those of us, still in a minority, who have never been on
it?

No doubt the irony will be I'll have to listen to endless "news" from
friends who haven't spoken to me in real-life for 15 years, about how
"Liberating it is". :)
Mastodon as a whole is "censorship-resistant". Individual servers very much have rules. My home is on FOSStodon, and it's very, very far from an anarchy:

https://fosstodon.org/about/more#rules

It's also selective about which other servers it will interoperate with and how much:

https://fosstodon.org/about/more#unavailable-content
If you don’t like what I have to say about you, in your own words, I “suggest you make your profile private and only follow people you have a personal connection with”.
This is a super detailed example, after doing it you will: Getting Started with Lightspeed Vercel, Serverless Functions Get an exclusive API tool.
Level 1 panspermia is the dissemination of DNA and RNA.

Level 2 panspermia is the dissemination of radiation-resistant spores of psychedelic mushrooms in order to communicate with lifeforms based on Level 1.

I can't wait to see what Level 3 is.
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I think you might have replied to the wrong post?
Could also be a bad thing; if a country's storage capacity is woeful (like the UK), it indicates we could be storing more.
Finally! It's been astounding me people would use electric kick-scooters (or bikes, but mostly the scooters) instead of this form factor.
But now your post won't be taken down by a paid employee of a corporation with actual contractual obligations and custom made moderation tools to limit collateral damage, instead a 17yo Discord friend of the admin will have complete access to your account!
Adapt or move on.
The claim:

> literal hours of continuous footage

You gave links to highly edited videos. That is a fail.

> If you would rather be in denial about the nature of Twitter

I almost never use Twitter so I don't care. If you're naive enough to believe highly edited video from a source with a strong history of deceptively editing videos, [1], that's certainly your choice. But don't be so shocked that others are not as gullible and have a higher standard of evidence than you.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/10/18/project-veritas-elect...
I used to listen to NPR news now EVERY morning, mulled over nearly every post on /r/worldnews and then I slowly realized it's mostly fluff and media outlets trying to squeeze discussion out of things that a really just a one and done event. Nowadays, there is just so much drama and noise surrounding every single thing that happens in the world. It's of no value actually. So I've quit news consumption altogether as well, it's super liberating.

This is like the Tim Ferriss approach: if some news is really that huge, you'll hear about it from a friend or coworker eventually. And if it's news like globalthermonuclear war, you won't benefit from hearing about it 5 minutes earlier anyway ;)
I'm enjoying it, I've joined mastodon.nz which is a good choice if you are a kiwi, there is also a new dotnet.social server if you are into .NET

I think we are in a bit of sweet spot where there isn't that many people that you can follow many of the feeds ( though on some instances people have been saying it is too much ). Lot of talk of "yay, no algorithm" but actually, I think I want one, but one that works purely to find the content I likely want.
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> 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?

If you consider them social media, that would imply telephone itself is a social media, which makes a definition of the word "social media" somewhat useless for distinguishing services such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and similar.
> There are interesting people on Twitter but the algorithm just works like a slot machine that tries to keep you on the site no matter the cost, it's not optimized to serve you but to make you view more ads.

Yes. I don't know if it wants us to see more ads or be more "engaged". I'm currently fascinated by generative art and find a lot of interesting posts about this on Twitter.

Yet Twitter keeps showing me posts about politics that upset me; I can't help but "liking" some of those, which feeds the feedback machine.

I never follow any political poster but liking is enough. I could certainly block or mute all of them but that feels wrong, esp. people I fundamentally agree with.

I'm not sure what to do. Not use Twitter seems the best solution.
Any physicist seems to say co2 is a neutral molecule which makes any carbon capture tech very energy intensive, whatever technology it uses.

Tired of money trying to greenwash lies.
Deleting social media apps from your phone is a good start. I removed Facebook earlier this year after getting into one too many arguments with my conspiracy prone father.

I still login from time to time. I just do it via the website. It has become less of a compulsion, to the point that my partner sometimes has to prompt me to look at some photos or like some important life event from a friend. I'm ok with that.
There is no 'Asia'. Every country is unique. Hong Kong mostly uses Whatsapp (though some Telegram and Wechat as well), Singapore uses Whatsapp a lot, Turkey uses Whatsapp, Indonesia too...
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Large language models like GPT-3 aren’t good enough for pharma and finance
Sorry. You're wrong. I got rid of my smart phone 2 years ago. Now all I use is a landline. I got rid of all social media except email. My world continued.
> “Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day,” Musk tweeted on Friday.

The real question here is probably why anyone would pay 44 billion dollars for a company losing 4 million dollars per day. I mean, it's not some promising startup, it's a company that's been around for a while and has only managed to be profitable for 2 years out of the last 12 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/274563/annual-net-income...)?
A tech platform, or a social mechanism, can be multiple things at once. And doubly so when you're talking about multiple platforms. Social networks are...

* A commercial advertising delivery mechanism

* A US government mass-surveillance honeypot

* A way for Jane Smith to follow what her acquaintances or family members are doing elsewhere in the world

* An outlet for venting frustrations about politics

etc. etc. And all that dopes not really contradict "big psy-op".
That is like solving the opioid crisis by saying "you should use painkillers in moderation" or the obesity epidemic by saying "we all just need to be disciplined with what you eat."

The issue is systemic. Most people's idea of "social Media" today is the algorithm-fueled, privacy-invading, advertising funded model which divorces the users from the curation of good content.

We need social media platforms that are not owned by Big Tech, and we need to reject the notion that it is okay to data tracking and ads one exchange of a "free" service.
Just as an experiment I tried to access the facebook pages for the local restaurants. I could easily see the opening hours and phone number even though I wasn't logged in.

I'm in the UK. Is it a different experience where you are?

Or are you refusing to access the facebook website at all?
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How are the different timelines populated? Local: the public (?) toots of your home server (eg. @<username>@<host>); Federated: how is this one populated? And then, depending on the app, there's also the home overview (?) This is all a bit confusing...
> My blood does boil even there, with the subtle editorializing tell us what to feel about what is essentially a neutral news item, but it's much easier to control than the online media.

The article is on the BBC news site. As someone that's a bit older than the average on here, I can remember when the BBC news site was just that - news.

Now, it's changed subtly.

Some articles now have 'by John Smith', the author, underneath it, whereas some do not. Way back in the mists of time, almost all articles seemed to be anonymous.

The other change, and your point, is that select articles now have commentary or opinion by one of the BBC journalists, which it never previously had.

Still, if the BBC are paying big salaries for 'big' name journos they have to promote them.
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Interesting: Saw the last episode of season 4 and seriously thought it was the conclusion. Yes, there was the flash forward of season one ... but didn't think about that in the moment. And as others said: When you become aware while viewing that the show is stalling, its done. Had a number of these moments in seasons two and three. Now: Can I have Severance season two, please?
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I feel like I should try and get back my account which got banned for covid misinformation - who could have seen that the vaccines wouldn't be 99% effective?
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At the beginning of my journey as an entrepreneur, I decided to build multiple micro-products and released them in the market as soon as possible.
An idea, when actually executed, transform the original idea. It doesn't necessarily means that your plan or objectives have changed. It is mostly that your idea, post execution, bears different look, feel and meaning.

So, always try to convert your idea into action. Your idea is your call to an unknown journey. In that sense, no idea is bad.
Maybe the reason is that is a command-line utility written in JS? This is quite normal today, but in 2013 it might be shocking for some people.

I think there’s still some hate towards JS now, and in 2013 it definitely was much more rampant.

Also funny to think that this project probably received so much hate because of being ahead of its time.
The EU didn't have to give weapons to any underdogs in Afghanistan, because giving weapons to various underdogs in Afghanistan was practically the description of both the USSR and USA missions; those two had it covered.
So you got to share your stupid opinions and got pushback on them? Sounds like the system is working then.
> Getting newer versions of software. Often the version available in pkg is several major versions out of date.

The default settings for pkg use the quarterly branch. Remove the comment from the line for using the latest branch in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf.
I hate to say it but at least for me, yes. On many occasions I catch myself on a mindless infinite scroll, or youtube binge while filling a seemingly small gap of idleness. So even though I'm completely aware of this being possible, while also being in some sort of moral opposition against such behavior, I still fall for it rather easily. Addiction to some is a strong word I guess, but once I started associating it with my own behavior, it was easier to make some more drastic changes to get away from it.
The intensity of "Tesla man bad" recently has been really astounding. I don't get it. I mean I kinda do but not this frothing mouth rabidity.
In my experience, I feel like Mastodon is a way healthier social media platform than most. No (intrusive) trends, no "likes of friends", no randomized timeline, but just other people posting pictures of their oscilloscopes, cats, plants and hobbies, or starting healthy discussions about things.

It's not a panacea by any means, but makes an almost mind-blowing difference from the "usual" addictive social platforms (FB, Twitter, YouTube, etc.).

It feels a bit like joining a café where everyone is human, and imperfect, rather than a shiny videolottery casino where the higher liked profiles keep winning.
If you’re not getting a good return on your paid taxes, I’d call that wasteful spending.
It’s the “x who you followed liked this” that did me in. Turns out a lot of the smart people I followed followed complete tools. Twitter gave me no options to ignore, so I just deleted instead.
I've tried Mastodon for several months, using three different servers (or how these are called), and for me personally the experience ranged from useless to unpleasant. I got a horrible mixture of open source programming and pedophile manga culture in one home feed, and tons of Nazi posts with Pepe the frog memes in another. I never saw anything interesting in months, even after changing home feeds several times. Most of the discussions were about topics or memes I didn't even know. It was boring and I opened my client less and less often.

To be fair, Twitter offers essentially the same experience to me. Although you can see a glimpse of reason from time to time in between, because there are some experts on it, it's mostly about vitriol and passive aggressive trolling. I've heard you can adopt it by blocking and subscribing strategically but this never worked for me in the three months I've tried it. I've deactivated my Twitter account, too.
Not to mention the pricing. you can buy a 350watt stickblender for under $10 ;)
You have said nothing about me since you're talking to a simple username whose life you have no idea about. But I'm not the one here sobbing, so your reply means absolutely nothing
Why boil any water at all? You can just let the pasta soak in cold water overnight. It will be nice and soft in the morning.
> regarding ICU motorbikes, you are fine with normal car license up to 125ccm

This sounds like class A1 vehicle (up to 125 cm3 for ICE, up to 11 kW engine power, up to 0.1 kW/kg engine power per mass of vehicle)

With my class B license (the usual normal car license most people have), the only two-wheel motor vehicles I'm allowed to operate are class AM mentioned by the parent comment above.

For operating class A1 you need a class A license.
For short form messages. How many employees does Fastmail have?
Thankfully we live in a free country where we can vote for the various government officials who determine which books must be removed from school libraries and which internet libraries must be blocked or shut down.
I could only imagine what kind of imprinting something like TikTok can do to a developing mind, especially if that person lacks any kind of healthy role models in their real lives.

Personally I'm glad that that the hyper-availability of information was something I experienced only after I became an adult, so I'm able to be more aware of how influential the firehouse of information and manipulation by algorithms can be.
I'm not sure a loud speaker can produce a pop so quickly.
I can think of one or two reasons,

- It is damn good at what it is designed for, and that use case covers a lot of ground.

- No maddening update cycle which breaks all of you code once every 6 months

There are some languages where the primary reason for using them seems to be

- It is the first language I learned, and even though it is maddeningly inconsistent (despite claiming to be simple), it is a tool I am comfortable with

Not taking sides here. If you need to deliver something, the tool you know may be the best way to get it done on time/in budget, or a common tool may be better for business continuity.

Everything is tradeoffs.
>I just really don’t understand how this whole situation has been this badly mismanaged. I fully believe his original offer to be a troll

You don't make a formal offer as a troll

He's always been an awful person; the cult that has developed around him just inflated his ego. Here's the result.
>important to keeping Twitter running

Let me know when you find more than a dozen of them.
I'm sad that you took my comment that way. In fact I'm simply trying to suggest that many people's views in this thread on Elon's management of Twitter are severely underdetermined by the evidence.
>My blood does boil even there, with the subtle editorializing tell us what to feel about what is essentially a neutral news item, but it's much easier to control than the online media.

Dear god yes. Give me the facts without trying to insert your politics there. Even the AP does this constantly. I'd pay gold for a news organization which prints something to the effect of:

>The current situation in XYZ in unknown. We have heard from partisan sources that A happened, we have heard from other partisan sources that B happened and the state department has told us C would happen. Please check back in three weeks for an update.
Ironically, the markup for this site is not minimalist at all.
I think it might be the opposite, actually. In a disaster, when you need a sudden surge of supply, you're not going to have time to scale up your production. Even if we had reliable supplies of synthetic blood, I think disasters are always going to call for mass donations from the old-fashioned blood producers.