skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's based on the people you chose to follow. Nothing more. Nothing less.

My dog has a Twitter account.

She keeps getting push notifications from people she doesn't follow, usually rage bait.

She had to block Jordan Peterson!
>"Most social movements nowadays are disproportionally led by psychopaths (primary or secondary), people with Borderline Personality Disorder or narcissism (in short, people with Cluster B personality disorders), studies show."

POST

>"It is impossible (yes, really, there have been studies) for healthy, normal people to understand the motivations of the mentally ill, including mild and severe Cluster B."

THE

>"so, studies suggest that the confusion of the state of affairs and the inability to form a mentalizing theory of mind for the mild or severely mentally ill portion of leaders in social movements is actually a sign of health and intelligence :)"

STUDIES.

Considering you refer to no less than three amorphous groups of "studies", please post them. Otherwise it really only points towards you using the term because you think it gives you intellectual credibility.
If you think about it, a lot of things on the internet are already federated by design

For example the World Wide Web.
I think this is a very interesting idea, and I have had similar thoughts. The forum (doesn't have to be Mastodon, but could be) would probably have to be run be a separate entity following "armslængdeprincippet" similar to how DR (the public service tv/radio institution) is run, because a purely state governed service would result in some obvious conflicts of interest. But I think it is time to think about how to foster a healthy public discourse in the digital age, free from the harmful incentives of the adtech industry.
Oh nice, it works now, cheers.
I wonder if that's one of the "unnecessary" microservices that was turned off recently.
I must have seen 50 people quitting Twitter. Pretty much every one has continued Tweeting at exactly the same rate.
The difference is you built your Twitter followship from ground up, while Mastodon had boost from your already existing followers.
> Taken at face value, the phrase tool for thought doesn't have the word 'computer' or 'digital' anywhere in it. It suggests nothing about software systems or interfaces. It's simply meant to refer to tools that help humans think thoughts; potentially new, different, and better kinds of thoughts than we currently think.

I think the omission of technology helps obscure a key part of the most recent rise in "tools for thought". "Tools for thought" are not so much about thinking as they are about substituting thinking with the exploration of technologies and tools (something I am certainly guilty of). "Tools for thought" give you the feeling that you are doing thinking much in the same way that TikTok videos might give you the feeling that you are learning something. That is why so many tools can proliferate in this space: they are not satisfying the desire to think, they are satisfying the desire to use (new) tools. Hence people keep switching and finding new and 'better' "tools for thought".

You would think that the people most popular in the "tools for thought" space would be those producing the most interesting or novel ... thoughts. Instead, they are people who explain how to use "tools for thought", introducing new taxonomical systems and technologies. To what end?
I see full movies and TV shows on YouTube pretty frequently and have for years. Is YouTube likewise breaking? Won't this tweet just get a DMCA takedown rather than break the platform?
I think you are correct about the company getting product focused and that will eventually be great for the product. On the other hand this feels like a Digg->Reddit moment.
Thought about what?

I find the only truly excellent tool for thought is a long walk.

From analysing many recent articles on Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos
caper and Bankman-Fried FTX snafu, I see a much deeper criticism of
"silicon valley values" is afoot. Focus is on the tendency of digital
system zealots to optimise naively, prematurely and (paradoxically)
inefficiently for the human value problems they claim to solve.

Both placed the "ethical" dimensions of their projects at the fore,
but created loss and misery because the lens through which they see
(and interact with) the world, their tools, mono-cultural environment
and communication bubbles led to optimising on investment, risk,
presentation (appearance over reality) and so on. Both were enchanted
by their own story, and "because technology good" gave them the
excuse.

Nobody, even Ken Thompson or Steve Jobs (Unix, Apple) can create a
transparent "tool for thought" that doesn't impose hidden values on
the operator. Stare into the digital abyss and it stares back at you.

The best tool for thought is a human brain that can operate alone,
treat technology as a tool that has its place, and use it as the need
arises.
wishful thinking. nix is not mainstream
"This article is for paying subscribers only" - have the 303 upvoters actually subscribed, or are they just upvoting the title?
We should maybe resurrect 1950s terminology then. Call it, for instance, an electronic brain.

Example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5vjD0d8D9Ec

UNIVAC predicts an Eisenhower landslide and people disbelieving it think some mistake occurred and then tried to make it be more reasonable. Starts about 1:35 picks up again around 11:35

Background https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nHov1Atrjzk

The 1952 election is probably the most interesting one I know about. Truman attempted a 3rd term but then quickly backed out after Iowa, Estes Kefauver who was investigating crime bosses almost won the nomination but party bosses were friends with crime bosses and so a dark horse Stevenson came forth. There was talk of Eisenhower running on both parties ticket, a computer predicted the results, got it right but then everyone thought they had just made a mistake... There's so much there
That's because we use the question "Who can solve this task?" to estimate difficulty, and we assume a priori that computer solvable tasks don't require much intelligence.
I subscribe to Financial Times for general news, and I read it in an RSS reader (https://sumi.news) which also aggregates updates from other sites I'm interested in (like HN).
You're confused, OP is explaining culture differences in places with different cultures.

No race was brought into this until you piped up and dragged it in.
Are you purposefully misphrasing my question? Most men want to have kids, everyone knows that. That is very different from a trans man that wants to have kids by being pregnant themselves, after they have gone through all the hard work necessary to live their life as a member of a sex that can not have kids. I am absolutely incredulous that there are *many* trans men that want to be pregnant.
> our company

So you are the owner of the company? I was raised to put "our family" as a priority, and that means working for money, but doesn't include working like crazy and not getting compensated for it because it's in the best interest of "our company".
I love this book, but many people seem to dislike the cartoons. It reminds me of Learn You a Haskell, it's very hit and miss. So would I recommend this for a textbook? No. But as a book that people are offered of their own accord, yes definitely. The cartoons worked for me and I learned everything I could get out of the book.
Twitch had an entire video game category that was hosting multiple 24/7 Morbius streams going back in April. Is Twitch broken?
Yup. Now I spend way too much time posting on HN. I did try Mastodon for a while, but it wasn't as "sticky".
There's already a bot that does this.

https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount

People frequently have multiple accounts on different servers, so the account count is much larger than the number of individuals. Although this was of course true for Twitter as well, I had 3 different Twitter accounts. Which reminds me, I need to change my game accounts that use Twitter for account recovery over to something else before Twitter goes twits-up...
It's probably because you want to teach a language that people can use. There is very little practical use left of Forth.
I keep hearing this, but where is the evidence?
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1594090808864608257
I am somehow more interested in people who commit suicide, face work and housing discrimination over some OSHA violations, on the other hand, and unlike you, I can't see why those orthogonal issues can not be tackled in parallel. Care to enlighten me?
CGAL: Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
I work at the intersection of geospatial and emergency operations. This is pretty small in reach, but I found out recently that my re-mapping, re-griding, and so forth of a large local park may have played a significant role in locating someone who had suffered a cardiac arrest. The EMT arrival was quite prompt whereas before there would have been tens of minutes of floundering just locating him.

I feel good about that.
because they'll actually pay
Unless the bots are sentient I suppose that’s true!
Feel free to leave and don't let the door stop you on the way out.

Most of the so-called Twitter 'exodus' are people unhappy with the decision that Twitter will host different opinions from what Twitter used to in the past ~decade. And that's fine, but signalling your disapproval based on unfounded perceptions and speculations is disingenuous BECAUSE those same people used to champion everything about diversity and inclusivity. That's pretty hypocritical if nothing else.
Pipelines can be repaired and one of the NS2 pipes was left undamaged.

As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion Russia blew up the Georgian pipeline transporting gas between the two countries once before.
Tea: Homebrew and Blockchain
maybe that question of pigment persistence is interesting but just not relevant in discussing the book?

maybe the interesting aspect is the perseverance of the author and their systematic and thorough approach and their desire to create a complete work over all watercolor pigments?
Yes but not this exact module. You can use wasmtime-go to run wasm modules in go programs. You just need to compile quickjs to wasm
Can't believe he missed this crucial factor.

He tweeted his mastodon link that got 44 retweets.

He talked about mastodon (no link) and got another 59 retweets.

He also put mastodon link on his profile.

I mean those should help build his followers on mastodon by a large margin.
I guess it depends on how you use it. I just follow accounts that I like and stick to that feed ordered by newest. I have all notifications deactivated and clicked Show Less Often on all recommended posts. Now I see only posts by the users I follow. But there's probably more people who check trending topics and then latch onto whatever the newest outrage is?
Yes but social media was not.
The POI is indeed reused from Ingress. For a very long time the only way to get a new POI in Pokémon GO is to make a new portal in Ingress and it will sync over.
I can't judge the rate because I never precisely knew how much people actually tweeted, only how much Twitter wanted to show me.

As for not deleting accounts, did people actually delete their MySpace accounts? Or just slowly start using them less over time?

(FWIW I have just unfollowed everyone I was following and will keep an account purely to reduce login nagging when following a Twitter link.)
Go ahead, find a place you like.

I stay on Twitter, because there are a ton of accounts I follow that post things that interest me and that I learn from, in particular Python and related frameworks. But also programming in general plus much more interesting things like machinelearning and AI.

I love the Godot project, and it's super fun to follow the #GodotEngine tag, you see so much amazing creations and tutorials people post. And Blender3D.

Those are just a few examples and only IT, I also follow up on things that happen in cities where friends live, what is going on in their lives and what is happening in their cities.

To me Twitter is a huge treasure trove of information.

And this is probably going to sound arrogant, but I really don't care for your high-horse posts about departing Twitter (or any platform), because from where I stand it's because of your own inability to filter the things you like and dislike.

I don't care who owns Twitter, I care about the people who create content that interest and inspire me. As long as they keep doing that, I will continue to be a happy follower.
I mean, there are exceptions, yet it's still an opinion
In my experience, the most chaotic companies that were fire fighting all the time tried to pull this "there is this deadline and it has to be finished by X or else we die".

The successful companies on the other hand, are planning ahead and taking setbacks into account. Work was done properly so no crazy firefighting. They also don't burn out their employees.

Just my experience of a 43 yo developer.
“Congraturation! You Sucsess!” - Stop The Express, ZX Spectrum, 1983
When it comes to biological sex, which is what "male" and "female" normally refer to, the established science is that it is determined by your physiology. It's not the same thing as "man" and "woman", which is gender identity.

But thank you for illustrating OP's point.
Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: What's the Link? [video]
Elon said it himself in an internal leaked email. It can go bankrupt easily and it seems advertisers are leaving in droves. They might come back once volatility settles down, but it isn’t a given.
What an ignorant and unnecessarily dismissive comment. While Pico8 did kick off the popularity of "fantasy consoles", there are a number of them now, Pixel Vision 8 [1] would be another example.

TIC-80's specs [2] are different as well.

[1]:https://pixelvision8.github.io/Website/

[2]: https://tic80.com/learn
Thanks for sharing, looks great!
I don't think that is the case. The problem is Twitter pushes things your way that you have nothing to do about. They send you notifications to random actor's birthday. Then they push Tweets in your feed to maximize engagement. I know that can be turned off but way too many people don't and then they end up engaging in topics they know nothing about. This then make stupid things trend on Twitter.

People are not leaving Twitter because of politics, they are leaving because they are finally seeing the cesspool that Twitter is.
We have plenty of active volcanoes and the earth doesn’t freeze. The earth is very big.
Federation actually makes no sense.

It's not a global network like twitter; you are under the mercy of the admins of the node you are on.

You might get suspended without an option to pull your data and migrate to a different node.

Nodes can cut each other off if they don't like each other's politics.

So you can't just joina a node and be on the network. You have to find an instance that aligns with your politics.
Look into AntiX and/or MX-Linux. They both use the same toolset, are Debian-based, while AntiX is more 'spartan', and MX more full desktop. Both can be remastered into oblivion with their delivered tools, and installed in all sorts of ways, including running from RAM.

Running as full XFCE Desktop with FF, occassional updates except kernel, all in RAM, with quick logout and telinit 1 as root from console, then back to telinit 5(with autologin back into X):

$ uptime
09:44:35 up 160 days, 46 min, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.31

Most hassle-free Linux-distro I've ever had, while being compact, but fully usable for my needs. There may be others, but I'm tired of trying.

Edit: Obviously not running with this kernel-parameter or watchdog, because I don't see panics here. But could be easily integrated, because Debian. OFC you'd need to have a remastered and prepared(to your needs) boot-device available after a reboot, while running from RAM. Could even be an USB-keychain. Anyways, they have all the tools to do this within a few clicks from X and a few function key-presses and menu choices during first boot.

Works for me, YMMV.

https://antixlinux.com/

https://mxlinux.org/
10$ says he cites Jordan Peterson
This is from prior to Musk, though, and he's previously indicated ("open source the algorithm") a desire to change it.
Jordan Peterson’s content is fairly tame videos admit ethics and self improvement - are you describing it as rage bait?
Is it still hovering if you're "just" matching airspeed and wind speed so that your ground speed is zero?
Too much webscale talk with coworkers?
What evidence do you want?

The majority of the staff have left. Tangible fact.

The site is having outages. Tangible fact.

Mastodon usage is significantly up. Tangible fact.

People make vague hand wavey gestures about Twitter having better than ever engagement or usage or whatever… but there are no stats to back it up, so who knows?

Come on! Compared to 6 months ago the service is empirically worse.

It’s unbelievable to me someone can stand here and go “where the proof dude??” with what’s happening.

Is it going to be gone in a year? Who knows? No one’s knows the future.

Is it reasonable to say, given the recent state of the platform is, the probability of the platform being gone in a year is now significantly greater than it was six months ago?

Probably, I would say, yes. The empirical evidence suggests so.

I’m not saying there’s a 100% chance of that; no one is saying that; but it’s greater than it was.

You have to really make an effort to believe otherwise.
Definitely. The novelty of new technology usurps novel thought. The
experience of the medium supplants the message. The ecstasy of
communication negates meaning... etc.

I'd honestly have thought that after 50 years we'd have overcome this,
settled into a plateau of productive, reflective progress that uses
digital tools instead of indulging in them.

But the churn of form and fashion, relentless progress of the tools
and their markets needed to fuel growth has actually kept us mentally
paralysed, enchanted, in an era where deep human thought is more
necessary than ever.

Perhaps long-lived alien civilisations know this as the real answer to
the Fermi Paradox. It isn't war and nuclear weapons that kills
species. They just get PlayStations and amuse themselves to death.
Sure, there are a ton of reasons I've been able to grow my audience on Mastodon this quickly.

But despite those reasons, the activity this represents still works as a counter to the claim I was replying to here that "no one is switching to Mastodon".
Reminds me of when everyone left Github for GitLab as microsoft bought it. Or everyone leaving Reddit when the new CEOs and subreddit bans came.
For me, as someone who tried to use Twitter but never got into it:
I never could filter out the political, inflammatory, and inciteful side of Twitter. It was never useful for me in that way.
I just never understood how to, if you could. Though I'd think it's difficult to, considering that's the whole business model.
Reminds me of the paper "Chicken Chicken Chicken" which made us chuckle at the lab some years ago

https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
Mastodon is the linux desktop of social networks.
Because these results can show more information than just a single bit?

The result might not just show “not worth digging” vs “worth digging”, but something like “the gold will flow for 4 years and then only trickle for 2” vs “the gold will flow for 8 years and then nothing”.
They’re actually S, M, and L. While we can choose three primary colors such that a large gamut can be represented, it is impossible to choose 3 hues that will be able to represent the entire visible gamut.

Our color sensing cones and the brain processing behind them is more complicated than simple mixing of R, G, and B.

Cyan is a good example. It lives on a “hump” in the color space that cannot be reached by any general-purpose gamut.
That seems like an anti trust action waiting to happen frankly.
You're also omitting the various core feature breakages as Elon cuts infrastructure in an attempt to recoup his investment. 2fa users were locked out of their accounts because he turned off a bunch of microservices.
This is the salient point getting lost in a lot of conversations about Twitter and free speech.

There seem to be a lot of people who not only want to control what they see on Twitter (understandable) but also want to control what others see.

> But although Trump was a serial “main character”, as president he was unlike the all main characters who went before: he was fundamentally unavoidable.

I encourage people who want to mould their own experience or echo chambers to use the block button.
Watt-hours and wall clock?
DOStodon: An ms-dos Mastodon client
I thought so too and yet I had to create a mastodon account because all the sudden some people moved I wanted to continue to follow. That didn’t happen at any point before.

Something _is_ different this time around.
The problem of swapping is that it makes no sense at scale: you need to stock enough charged batteries at swap stations that you can do the swaps, with the equipment.

And batteries are not interchangeable, because they’re structural and to maximise packing. So you need to stock batteries for every car brand if not model at every station. And in the right capacities do you don’t downgrade users (or upgrade them).

Battery swaps make sense on scooters because the cell packing is a lot less critical, so you can have a standard which is resilient and easy to manipulate and eat the loss of cell volume. The same might happen with trucks. If manufacturers can settle on standards in order to maintain travel rates.
you can create filter keyword lists to get most of the crap out of your feed.
It has nothing to do with the platform really.

If a platform is huge enough, there are lots of humans there, including lots of humans who post very interesting content. Even LinkedIn, I used to think it was a pure waste of time to be on LinkedIn, but I recently realized I was completely wrong and depending on the subject you are interested in - but probably not programming - there are niches on LinkedIn that are incredibly interesting.

The scary thought is that we may loose track of those content creators that inspire us for a dumb reason like Elon Musk sabotaging it from the top, and our favorite content creators not being readily available anymore.

I hope if that happens that we do the effort to google the handles of those people and find them on whatever place of the web they migrated.
I can imagine it to be rage-inducing for people who don't like hearing opinions from outside their bubble.
I seem to have more ads than ever in my feed now.
Given such a division of opinions on Twitter and other platforms, I can't help but think that we need the 2 of everything: 2 Twitters, 2 Facebooks, 2 Googles, 2 Apples, 2 Netflixes, etc... Some people will be on Twitter 1 and be happy. Others will be on Twitter 2 and be just as content. The additional wrinkle is that the majority of "engagement" is coming from Group 1 and Group 2 mudslinging each other. If we separate them on two different platforms, the temperature of the conversations will go down. We already do exactly the same thing at the international football (soccer) competitions: you always sit the fans from opposing sides separately.
This looks interesting but it seems that if you're wanting to use specific versions of two separate packages, that are not in the same nixpkgs commit, you're a bit out of luck.
For example, if I want to use an older version of Terraform with a newer version of the Terraform AzureRM provider, I couldn't quite figure out a way to do it...
Ummm.. that was maybe true a few years ago but hasn’t been the case for a while now.

It’s now very heavily in the angry old man yelling about the degeneracy of society with a heavy political leaning that is a LONG way outside his actual area of professional expertise.