skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that getting rid of federation is not the answer. However, it will be little more than a source of neato developer projects as long as new projects try to get users to think about it, let alone understand it, nevermind actually needing to understand it to use a product to its full potential.

People who don't care about federation, conceptually, will never care about federation, even if it yields tangible benefits they care about otherwise. They will prioritize user experience, interface, branding appeal, reliability and speed of operations like finding people in-app, and all of that other stuff that FOSS social media, and many other types of FOSS projects, de-prioritize. That is why FOSS alternatives are still alternatives despite being free, and largely technically superior.

The disconnect is rooted in differing perspectives. Developers, naturally, use more sophisticated means of evaluating software than end users, much the way nutritionists evaluate food. We consider interfaces and user experiences to be means of interacting with software, and consider the software on a whole, yielding only so much weight to usability. Since software plays such a huge part of our lives, spending a little time wrangling it doesn't seem onerous.

To nearly all end users, the interface/experience is the software. Even people who do care about federation conceptually may not even be willing to deal with admin > 0 for their social media accounts. It's not ideal, but it's reality. Currently, federation hardly matters more to people than HTTP/2 does. Trying to use it as a selling point for general audience software is a failing strategy. So who cares? Social media is a hell of a lot more useful with a critical mass of users... other users are what make it "social," rather than merely "media."

If developers are nutritionists, designers are chefs. Calculating proper nutrition to keep us alive and functioning is arguably more important to making food delicious and enriching our sensual lives. But if you take a large group of people and offer them their choice of food either constructed by nutritionists or constructed by chefs, the chefs will win every time. Many of the nutritionists will be mystified by people's lack of ability to prioritize critical body functioning over beautiful sensual experiences.

(When I was in culinary school, a fellow student was a career-changing nutritionist saying she was becoming a chef because she was tired of "being the bad guy taking away all the things people loved.)

The key is actively enfranchising people who specialize in knowing what users want. Spending an afternoon in Gimp making a punny logo is not branding. Customizable color themes are not UX. Deeply considering, and probably researching users needs and expectations and then trying to meet them is the only way forward for FOSS social media. People are willing to give up some flavor benefits for food that's significantly more nutritious, but we need chefs to help us make it as tasty an appealing as possible, and then spin the hell out of the benefits. It's the only way forward.
Are Neanderthals Human?
A long time ago, I used vi instead of Emacs because it was much faster.

Recently I tried to replace VSCode with something else because VSCode isn't responsive enough.. But vim is annoying to customize as a C++ IDE, so I tried SpaceVim and I discovered that it starts even slower than VSCode :-( so I'm still using VSCode..
I think the problem is that, let’s say the police drives past your house and sees a pile of bodies.

Then they check on you and find you are a serial killer and arrest you.

Now, if you were smart and buried the bodies, is the police supposed to knock on your door and say: “Good job, keep doing what you are doing because you are obviously doing nothing wrong, as evidenced by the lack of bodies on your lawn.”

They don’t do that, they simply drive past and probably assume you’re honest but reserve judgement until later.
> but it's not credible to people in most of the world, who would consider, for example, Indian/Mexican/Brazilian media as being credible, but not Western media as they are influenced by governments that are arming/subsidizing one side of this conflict.

If we apply the same thinking to those countries, why would the Indian media be credible when they rely on Russia for a lot of military equipment and now for cheap oil? Or Brazil when they buy Russian helicopters?

I understand what you're saying [the original version of your comment], but it's hard to find credible sources when everyone has reasons to side with one side or the other. Who to trust?
Some players, due to their complexion, sometimes appear to be going behind the ads.
Why settle for crumbs? There should be limits on how many billboards, digital or otherwise, are allowed to exist, and that limit can be "zero". Advertising is a blight.
Someone who didn't pay for OW1 might have no ground to complain, but in my case I paid for OW1 which now doesn't exist and I am left with OW2 which locks away any kind of progression unless I pay.

It's a bait and switch and the community is rightfully angry. If they wanted to make a f2p OW they could've released OW2 as a standalone, except they knew no one would have migrated so instead they killed the old one.
> First, nobody actually seems to know how bidirectional text should interact with terminal control sequences...

This goes beyond just bidirectional text. The traditional behavior of text in a terminal is based around two key assumptions, both of which break down catastrophically when dealing with non-ASCII text:

1) The state of a terminal can be represented as a set of cells, each of which has exactly one glyph in it and can be drawn independently from any other cell.

2) Printing a character will write a glyph to the cell the cursor is in and move the cursor to the right by one cell (or down to the next line).

The first assumption breaks down when dealing with full-width characters and ligatures/complex scripts, but can at least be papered over to handle full-width. The second assumption breaks down when exposed to virtually any interesting typographical feature (RTL, combining characters and ZWJ, shaped characters, etc). And I'm not sure it's possible to fix without some pretty substantial changes to how terminals operate -- standard terminal control sequences, and the code that uses them, are all built around these assumptions; introducing new behaviors like "the cursor doesn't always move from left to right" or "erasing the middle of a string might change how the rest of it displays" will break existing applications.

The ECMA standards are of absolutely no help in the matter. They were written in the early 1990s, before Unicode came onto the scene. Their idea of "international language support" was supporting both French and German.
my pleasure, let us know if you have any feedback, would love to see you succeed wtih Deep Lake. :)
I think you’ve lost track of the context here and are just trying to refute every sentence in isolation, but I see no coherent refutation of the main idea.
The Attention Economy: Why do tech companies fight for our attention?
The dispute that started the process to change the law was (if my memory serves) over a "model maker" making $NZ17 an hour back in 2010. Hardly big money.

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/bills-and-laws/bills-propose...
In 1980 we had Showtime at our house. Standard VHF channels 2-13 that did have ads and one extra premium channel with no ads.
Currencies, as the name hints, are used to transmit value, not hold it beyond the short term.
That can describe both the left and the right. I'd be very surprised if you weren't alluding to SJWs; but at the same time you're describing Qanon folks as well.

...and that's why we can't have discourse. No one can agree on what constitutes "reasonable debate".
Show them on the doll where twitter touched you (smh) :p

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

It sounds like Elon and his geek maestro entourage are leaning the backend out to get a better grip on the systems. Seems legit.

Its like a holiday for his tech engineers, I'm sure.

Edit: never used social and even HN has made me laugh so hard at quite a few hair-brained things.. I thought it was a geek site
Okay, clearly nonsense, but I'd love to see a Randall Monroe "what if" on water-filled bladders for earth quake prevention at scale.
YouTube doesn’t constantly annoy me to login.
That is fine, but the existence of a bubble on Twitter is often defined by having a common external enemy. That's what the participants inside the bubble have in common, and very often not much else.

They aren't necessarily deep friends, these bubble people. Move such a bubble to friendly territory where there is only peace, and many will fall apart.
I know somebody who lost an instagram account like this. Provided fake info when signing up. Years later, get a request to post an id or get banned. Id didn't match the fake info of course, so account banned all the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security

Trying from another browser works
I think people who know / met him just legitimately like him. Nerd charisma, I guess. Matt Levine actually copped to it in his column.
The problem is that places that cater to a specific political demographic tend to not tolerate exchanges of ideas, even if they are civil. It's very difficult to intentionally create a community that allows for discourse from wildly varying viewpoints where people feel comfortable sharing their point of view.
It competes with heat pumps for space heat, particularly given that air source heat pumps have gotten a lot better in 20 years. 20 years ago the word was that you needed a ground source heat pump in upstate NY but today air source heat pumps are completely practical.
heroes used to be released and everyone would get them. now there's a pay/play a LOT to unlock mechanic. same goes to cosmetics.
I have way too many old notebooks (school and work) that I have had to discard over the years. Or maybe some of them are still in a box somewhere, I have no idea.

If I had all my notes on an iPad, organized an searchable, and uploadable to the cloud or transferred to a desktop machine, that would be a much better situation.

That said, it isn't anything close to $2K. Students have access to good discounts through various retailers, but even the base iPad with a $329 full retail price works well enough for taking notes along with the $99 Pencil. It would easily last four years of college for note-taking.

The key is to disable all other apps (including iMessage) so it's a distraction-free device.
Amazon Robotics researchers are solving a “beautiful problem”
No they don't. They aren't even shutting down the free to play CoD: Warzone 1 when 2.0 releases. I can still play CoD games I bought on PS3, online. But somehow OW1 had to go.
Elon Musk heads to court over Tesla pay that made him the richest person
SpaceX in fundraising talks at $150B valuation
> I have a friend who gets every Friday off, is that nice?

I'm in a similar boat as you. I really like where I'm at and if they switched to 4 day work weeks, it would be as perfect as it could get in terms of a job for me. Here's to hoping.
Urban-rural connections could boost resilience in the face of change
In my experience, the worst offenders are not billboards but signage for local establishments, which would usually be unaffected by a billboard ban.
I think you may have meant to substitute ABCL for one of those clisps?
You have it opaque.
Technology is for people not people for technology.
We want minimal, simple & easily understandable law. But the more law is created the more middleman control and bloat it.
The more technocrats you will have the more inhumane technocracy will become.
Nobody needs to understand code. The only entities that needs it are machines.
When you use a printer you need to know where to push print button not how printing was implemented.

You can't expect humanity to adjust to technology by force, especially knowing natural limitation of this. Next decade you will side with sterilisation of unfitting "modern civilization".

GDP flows & spreads in economy on all jobs shaping salaries.
If humanity do makes technological progress it means GDP do grows and so people with lowest salaries should gain buying power.
If they don't it's not their fault, it means something goes wrong with the progress that we all blindly assume is happening.
But since 1970 there is no progress on West.
There is a centralisation of global wealth scheme going on & we don't get natural replacement of those generations of civilization and progress builders as before. Middle class is literally being eradicated.

Mindless consumption is 99% of what people do in shops. Healthy human species proper diet food is 1% of products in shops. Most of stuff around is toxic & fake.

We don't need augmenting human intelligence. We need to build civilization for everyone & for humans.

Society is a pyramid.
Bottom produces top and achievements of top are co-owned by bottom from where they originate.

I agree fully with algoentertainment. But making whole society into mindless efficient machines will be the other extreme to go to.

Coding in itself is not normal natural human activity and the optimum for humans is what they evolved for in nature in their natural environment. Not observing matrix code.

Fixing eyes & natural vision, not augmenting it first.
Starting with true human food not replacing it.
Making humans drug free before drugging them for specific performance.

What people do is shaped by their (re)education, parenting, quality of their sources of information, choices surrounding them, their understanding of what a civilized human behaviour & ethics standard is, what their subjective self-assessment & habits let them become.

Big part of it is infosphere around them which they never consciously chosen to be exposed to.
Human don't even have a free will so how can he be fully responsible for "own" choices?

A physical ratcage in overcrowded concrete labirynth seems far from humane thing.

Digital escapism is like wrapping shit up in shiny paper of a magic pill to avoid facing true colours of modern reality & degredation of civilization.

We made enough progress to start reverting millennia long unnatural changes & mistakes, reinventing our optimal human state with technology & push the technology evolution in direction serving human true self.

Processing this basic truth gives a profound insights.
Money: the problem of the people, by the people, for the people.
Safari on iPadOS 16 loads that just fine for me.

I’d forgotten all about this site, don’t remember ever using it but I certainly heard of it.
> if you need the super thin lenses (depends on your level of myopia), go with the expensive stuff, else the cheaper lenses will also work.

This also depends on the frame OP wants to go for. With thicker frames, thicker glasses tend to be less of an aesthetic issue than with very light, transparent of frameless designs.
Well, you’re conflating a fringe movement of radical conspiracy theorists with the average person who doesn’t go along with the woke agenda. That in itself is an example of what I’m talking about.
This is called being part of the problem. My side is fine.
Fraunhofer are doing this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerpaste
Hobbit Law sometimes: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/01/29/78965/the-hobbit-law-t...

The actual law: https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2010/0120/latest/whol...
Fortune cookie ads are here
That's already happened ... just look at how many youtube channels have integrated a "and now let's briefly talk about my sponsors" segment in the middle.
And "dia-beet-us."
You often see adds projected on players arms or legs.. Not only do the adds look horrible, they ruin the experience watching a game.
Probably because the NORTH ATLANTIC Treaty Organization isn't involved in the PACIFIC OCEAN so they don't care what NATO does. But they share a border with Russia so they're impacted by what Russia does.
Yes. I hate it so much.
NASA – Artemis I Moon Mission – Curated Link-List
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That stands for HTTP Strict Transport Security. Its a http header that basically tells your browser to only connect to this website via HTTPS/TLS for a configurable amount of time.

Its a protection mechanism that prevents encryption stripping man-in-the-middle attacks.
Ask HN: Resources on Designing Federated Systems
With much that has been going on with Twitter, Meta, Mastodon, etc ... there has been much talk of federated systems.

I was wondering if anyone could recommend good resources on federated system design considerations.
Yea, that's interesting, but I still bet this is likely a case of no one seriously looking into this term and knowing the full lexical space that well.

Boilerplate's early use was referring to boiler material, but it likely got semantically mixed together with the term for "standard form plate affixed to a boiler", as this term is actually more from the legal industry where it's literally a document with blanks you fill out, which more closely fits this definition.
It appears they have made a gibberish machine
Not necessarily. Reddit itself changed to cater to a mainstream audience and by billing itself as an alternative the pitch isn't so much to folks who like the changes reddit made but to folks who think reddit was better "before september came". IE folks who want what they remember (right or wrong) as being a small, niche site that was ruined by chasing the mainstream.
I have used btc as a hedge against my government and the uncontrolled judicial system, and it has been phenomenally successful. Not everyone lives an upper-middle class existence with good rule of law.
So let me get this straight: what I think about whether a picture of Mario being rude is a joke or not determines if Elon Musk instituted a rule about impersonation? That makes no sense. You also throw ideas around like me pretending to be an arbiter around, makes no sense either. Why do you need it to be about me?
“What else are ‘we’ to think?” That’s arbiter talk buddy.
Seems to me like you’re trying to drag me personally into a bickering match, I won’t hazard a guess as why.
First thing you replied to (reworded for clarity) I think Mario being rude is a joke, I think other times things that are obvious jokes have also been banned. And that’s what this Mario thing is right: joke gets twitter account banned? It’s faulty reasoning for you to assume I know much of anything about Nintendoofus internet drama but I don’t think I need to as long as it boils down to banned for joke.
But I also think, and this is most important of all: that what I think has nothing to do with whether Musk instituted a rule or not. That should not be shocking.

Here’s a story anyone at home can confirm or not, before I posted the first comment, I tried to look it up to see if it was true: ‘did Elon musk institute a rule about impersonation’ had to reword a few times and scroll through many pages of news articles from all around the world repeating what I would call the same outrage clickbait from seemingly the same script, before I found a snopes article that actually answered the question and no he did not institute such a rule. That’s interesting and worth pointing out imo for the readers here that are interested in getting full stories, because as I’ve already said, that he instituted such a rule is widely reported and repeated, and is (afaik) incorrect.
log(1.6MM) = 6.2

He has 6 people between him and the CEO. Oddly close. Maybe Amazon isn’t bloated and is just unbelievably huge.
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NASA – Twitter : https://twitter.com/NASA

NASA – Artemis – Twitter : https://twitter.com/NASAArtemis

NASA – SLS – Twitter : https://twitter.com/NASA_SLS

NASA – Exploration Ground Systems – Twitter : https://twitter.com/NASAGroundSys

NASA – Kennedy Space Center – Twitter : https://twitter.com/NASAKennedy

NASA – #Artemis – Twitter : https://twitter.com/search?q=#Artemis

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NASA – Nitter : https://nitter.net/NASA

NASA – Artemis – Nitter : https://nitter.net/NASAArtemis

NASA – SLS – Nitter : https://nitter.net/NASA_SLS

NASA – Exploration Ground Systems – Nitter : https://nitter.net/NASAGroundSys

NASA – Kennedy Space Center – Nitter : https://nitter.net/NASAKennedy

NASA – #Artemis – Nitter : https://nitter.net/search?q=%23Artemis

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NASA – Facebook : https://facebook.com/NASA/

NASA – LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/nasa/

NASA – YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/nasa

NASA – Twitch : https://www.twitch.tv/nasa/

NASA – Daily Motion : https://www.dailymotion.com/NASA

NASA – Theta.TV : https://www.sliver.tv/win/nasa

NASA – Live website : https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

NASA – Television : https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public

NASA en espanol broadcast coverage : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2uianZ1bik

The NASA app : https://www.nasa.gov/connect/apps.html

NASA – Artemis I Mission – Blog : https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/

----> Wikipedia <-----------------------------------

The Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 – Artemis Main Engines (SLS) – Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-25

The Space Launch System (SLS) – USA Super Heavy-Lift Expendable Launch Vehicle : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System

Artemis 1 – Planned un-Crewed test-flight for NASA's Artemis program : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_1

The Artemis Program – Human spaceflight program led by NASA to explore the Moon : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA

----> Space.com <----(backup)-----------------------

NASA's – Artemis 1 Moon Mission – Live Updates : https://www.space.com/news/live/nasa-artemis-1-moon-mission-...

NASA's – Artemis 1 SLS Moon Rocket Launch – Webcasts : https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-1-sls-moon-rocket-launch-...

NASA's – Artemis 1 – News : https://www.space.com/topics/artemis-program

NASA's – Artemis 1 – Videos : https://videos.space.com/p/QArnwl54

NASA's – Artemis 1 – Facts : https://www.space.com/nasa-artemis-1-moon-mission-explained
Any coherent approach to morality min-maxes something. You either do it explicitly or you do it implicitly and make dumb mistakes; the only reason to do the latter is it lets you avoid thinking about the unpleasant parts of your worldview. The view implicitly underpinning "Venice for the Venetians" is "One of this handful of sophisticated upper-middle-class Europeans is morally worth far more than dozens or hundreds of boorish tourists"
Wow a labor of love for sure.

Obviously we need a hinged Nintendo Switch now.
You are supposed to call them "Afroamerican holes" now... /s
Not OP, but I find the Go compiler very frustrating. I cannot leave unused variables or unused imports here and there… which means I cannot have fun writing throwaway code while “hacking” on personal projects. Sometimes I just want to open my text editor and write code while getting quick feedback from the compiler, but Go literally takes away the joy of coding for the sake of coding.

Besides that, I like the language to some extent.
They provide much more value than they are paid meaning there is an imbalance of power between the market participants. This can be fixed via collective bargaining.
Haven’t managed to find a site (apart from HN) that it does allow yet!