skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know from personal experience that this is exactly wrong. Most of the left-leaning blue-checks that I followed on Twitter became mastodon users starting about a week after he carried the literal sink in through the door. It accelerated during subsequent events. While I still laughed when Paul Ford recently characterized Mastodon as "socialists who solder", the truth is that far more ordinary folk than I thought possible made it past the senseless UX hurdles that Mastodon makes new users jump over right away. I was amazed.

This new policy against sharing Mastodon links makes me think their numbers are showing an exodus of users toward it.
> there's something about Musk's behavior that really irks a lot of HN readers

Hypocrisy. Massive lies, Cruelty. Lack of empathy.

Do we need more to be irked?
That's a lot of words to say "I agree with Elon Musk's Twitter shenanigans"
Just say "no" to database hits for static content:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221218180411/https://www.andyc...
I get more done in Emacs and org-mode, at this point.
I don’t think I had seen those before:

tarball [use instead: tar archive] While the term refers to an archive that has been created with the tar command, it can be negatively associated with the pejorative term tarbaby.

whitespace [use instead: empty space] Assigns value connotations based on color (white = good), an act which is subconsciously racialized.

Some of the “solutions” are funny:

Hispanic [use instead: Latinx, use country of origin] Although widely used to describe people from Spanish-speaking countries outside of Spain, its roots lie in Spain's colonization of South American countries.

Where do they think that the roots of the usage of Latin lie?

immigrant [use instead: person who has immigrated, non-citizen] Using person-first language helps to not define people by just one of their characteristics.

Saying “non-citizen” is still defining people by just one of their characteristics!
Mr Beast already called dibs.
They'll get back to you in 5 to 7 business years.

This will resolve itself one way or the other by then.
I remember when MTV used to put out silly PSA like this in commercial form when I was a teen. This is just more of the same crap - funny it comes from Stanford and not MTV this time. Oh how the cookie crumbles.
Soccer is played by gloriously messy human beings. A bit of schmutz now and then is not so terrible a thing.
> There's even a cottage industry of link tree / bio landing pages that consolidate all of your social handles, featured posts, etc into one page. Are those bio sites going to end up banned on Twitter too?

They are banned:

https://twitter.com/banditelli/status/1604537880482762752
Reddit seems exceptionally well-placed to take a huge investment and just rebuild Twitter. They already have ads, content moderation, experience with scale, etc
To be fair, WaPo (much like NPR) was always more a place to go for geopolitics whitepapers masquerading as reporting, it was usually places like NYT, The Guardian, or Intercept the that did adversarial journalism. Bezos didn't change much in that regard.

(Though I did cancel my subscription when they kept insisting on doing tracking even after I paid the guy... if you're gonna be like that when I try to hand you money for your information, I'll steal it and not give you a shred of what you wanted except for a bullshit IP and a fingerprint that claims I'm running WebTV.)
That's messed up. When it happens in a subreddit we just roll our eyes and blame it on pubescent adderall addicts. But the musk is supposed to be above all that.

Does any other platform practice this clearly ludicrous policy?
Plenty of idiots still following Putin and carrying water for him.
Do you have a source for this? Elon’s recent treatment of journalists is mostly what comes back when I try to search for it.
jsdelivr is a free CDN for NPM packages and also github repos. the site is loading an icon font (bootstrap-icons@1.5.0) from it. it's pretty nice as far as free npm cdns go, i guess. they even add SRI hashes to the script tags and stuff they generate by default so they can't swap out the files to malicious versions later.
It was not luck, it was Dibu [1] at the end. He is not lucky, he is an ace. Also Messi is 35 while Mbappe is 23.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Mart%C3%ADnez
Good luck to you and your family. Time heals all wounds, as it did for us, though scars of course remain.
I think that's an ungenerous read. I read it more as "there is built up frustration here around this guy, so you'll see more of this venting right now." And that makes sense to me. I don't think the comment is constructive either, but I get where it's coming from. Whatever the standards are here, we're still humans.
Catherine Liu's short book Virtue Hoarders has this thesis, arguing that the class that this language is a marker of is the professional managerial class (PMC), a social class originally posited by the John and Barbara Ehrenreich in the 70s. I can't recommend the book too highly but I think it was correct in most of its observations.
For ages I lived with X40 and X60 form-factor ThinkPads, which have perfectly sized keyboards for my hands. The ESC key is easily accessed on these for me without leaving home row placement, palms comfortably planted.

Every ThinkPad I've had since then has been a regression in this department, beginning with the X201s and now I'm on an X230 and my typing is awful compared to the 4:3 X-series glory days. Reaching for the ESC key is noticably annoying compared to what I know so well to be the ideal. Why Lenovo kept stretching the keyboard to accommodate their widescreen transition instead of relocating better speakers to the keyboard flanks is beyond me.

But having suffered through this mess I fully understand why vi(m) users remap ESC to CAPS or pursue other mitigations. ESC key access is highly sensitive to keyboard-size:hand-size, and I suspect for many it's just inconveniently distant like my X230 is for me.
aren't they a private company anyway?

To claim that they have a dominant position is very ovestated. Twitter is no bigger than reddit.
As others have noticed, convenient timing.

I wonder at what point do Elon's enablers, like Paul Graham, say something.
Technical presentation by Helion CEO on fusion and their tech
My fav format is whatever is widely supported so I don't have to bash my head on the wall dealing with all kinds of conversions and other issues.

My least fav is when some system i have to deal with creator chose their superior fav obscure format that no one uses and now i have to deal with it too.
Also fair, but then I would draw a line at the maximum amount of freedom of expression which still does not usually result in the extinction of cultures/subcultures (I say usually only because things come and go, some rate of attrition should be expected).
And if no more players are on the field and it is still a tie then what?
checks date

Hrmph. It's not April 1st.

They must be serious.
Let me give a concrete example. Say it's a subscription service. Say you track three metrics:

- Revenue.
- Subscription renewal / cancellation by monthly cohort.
- Signups.

Say the second metric shows that you have a meaningful subscription drop-off after 18 months. By comparing that metric with the signup metric, you might be able to successfully foresee a revenue drop-off months before it materializes in the revenue metric alone, buying valuable time to figure out what to do.

Tracking a revenue metric alone always runs the risk of surprising you in real time when it ticks down and you have no idea why.
This is the same advice any greybeard gives newcomers to Emacs. Just start small.
That's because you assume that progress comes from millionaires investing cheap central-bank money into start-ups, which isn't how the world works.

When you count on the collusion of gamblers and oligopolists to take socially positive gambles you're already stuck in a dead end.
Apologies for any discomfort - I clearly should have put "disc golf".
"Full Self Driving".
Collective mania is a thing. Why do you want that rare Pokémon card? Because all of your other friends play Pokémon and they want it too so it has value to you even though it’s literally just a piece of paper with a cool graphic and happens to be artificially scarce.

NFT’s are the exact same thing but instead of it being your school friends that are jealous and obsessed over your rare thing, now it’s a discord community of 10k+ that are going nuts over a golden jpeg. Every NFT project has to have a strong community that is incredibly excited about that artificially scarce collectible.

I’ve participated in NFT mintings and it really opened my eyes. They make 10,000 of these randomly generated images and sell them to a rabid community of speculators who are willing to throw hundred if not thousands of dollars at their chance to strike it rich.
> That’s one reason I love studying history. To learn what we’ve lost and find it again.
I think that's a pretty bad idea - the objective is for a team to win, having to tear apart your team every five minutes would be a very complex and niche tactical meta to master and will result in an incredibly slow paced game as lungs tire when teams get down to 7-8 players each. If teams are on even terms after 90 minutes, and cannot break the deadlock after 30 minutes of Extra Time then they're as evenly matched as possible and therefore deserve a way to win that doesn't break them physically. Whether or not they can handle it mentally is another matter [casts an eye towards England...]

I can say that as a player I can stomach a loss on penalties, I wouldn't say that I enjoy taking them but I could handle it. I would absolutely detest the idea of playing Extra Time with my teammates disappearing every few minutes.

Edit: hope it doesn’t sound like I was having a go at you for raising this proposal! On the contrary, I find it interesting when people want to tweak the game in creative ways and talk about it!
> There's even a cottage industry of link tree / bio landing pages that consolidate all of your social handles, featured posts, etc into one page. Are those bio sites going to end up banned on Twitter too?

These are already prohibited by the linked policy:

“Prohibited platforms:

* Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr

* 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio”
It was less than $2 to embed all 100+ episodes with the new OpenAI embeddings and was as easy as just making a bunch of API calls. Pretty hard to beat that experience.
> But going into a respected tech company like Twitter and gutting 80% of the workforce, acting like you know better than the engineers who built the thing, and rolling out and back policies and features without any real plan or thought, is showing that Elon believes he can just rinse and repeat his grindcore/dictatorial culture on any company and it will be successful.

I think gutting 80% of your workforce and showing that Twitter will continue running as a site is a pretty incredible POC. I don't know if you can separate the chaos based on erratic decision making and Musk personality. But I imagine some tech execs running successful simple products with huge eng head count behind it looks at this and thinks that an engineering product doesn't necessarily need thousands of engineers. I think the next few years you'll see a huge reduction in head count across the board. And on top of that, the amount of change and experimentation (some or most of it bad) can continue with a much lower headcount.

> We all are seeing this unfold and these posts are shorthand ways of calling this out

HN isn't a place to vote your sentiment like a popularity contest. It's a place for discussion. So if you post the equivalent of "space man bad", and someone does believe, yes, space man is bad, he shouldn't necessarily upvote it. It's just low quality low information post, something normally shunned on this platform.
And yet Mbappé is better paid - most valuable in the world it is thought.

And his WC Final rival and PSG team mate.
>Intentionally changing the words and phrases we use is one of the most powerful tools we have for changing our behavior, and correcting both logical and social biases.

If what you're saying is true, that also has the implication that manipulating language at a societal scale is a great way to manipulate society into thinking the way you want. Is that really what we want? To have a minority manipulate our language in order to influence our thoughts?
> "Customer" then?

No. Albeit obsolete, that used to be slang for "lewd woman" or... consults table "person who engages in sex work".

How about "human"?
The phrase “likes the smell of his own farts” doesn’t do him justice.
This hurts artists in the worst way who used linktr.ee sites to promote their work across platforms. This isn't about adult content, in the slightest.
Are relays stateless? When I join a nostr channel I see all previous conversations
Full Self-Driving, aka Tesla's autopilot.
I'd say that Elon's claims about the future are highly speculative as well. After all, he's the same guy who claimed there would be a million Tesla robotaxis on the street by the end of 2020. I think it's more useful to look at them as PR statements and ask what effect they were intended to have.
I think people are overreacting, as usually when there's something about social media going on. I have no horse in the game as I have no account on either of the sites. I merely warm my hands over the dumpster fire.
Jared Kushner, Elon Musk Spotted Together at World Cup Final in Qatar
> dude had actually put his money (lawsuit or not) where his mouth was, and that's a commendable thing.

No he didn't. He was forced to.
Imagine if we had an idiot tax. Suddenly all world problems would go away.
There is no "global ban" for servers. You won't be able to move to a server that has defederated the server you're moving to or been defederated by it.

But you can still move to a third party server. If you desperately want to move from A to B and A and B are defederated from each other, you can even do that by moving from A to C and C to A as long as both A and B are willing to talk to C.
Does this guy not realize how much he fucked up his Mars idea? You would have to be insane to live in a place controlled by him.
It is likely if Twitter had its monetized video platform that is in the works up and running, sharing a link to your youtube and other video sharing sites might also of been on the list, as the list is meant to chain and jail you to Twitter.
His argument is that major outlets have more to lose than he does.

If Coffeezilla goes down, then crypto scams won't be investigated anymore, but the investigations also have little point without naming and shaming, so the risk is essential to the very purpose of what he is doing.

Whereas with the New York Times, if reporting about crypto scams lands them in enough legal trouble to make them unprofitable, the implications can be beyond investigations into crypto scams, it can undermine investigations into pretty much any aspect of society. They have more to lose and thus are naturally more risk adverse.
Just be shameless, that's how Terry Davis did it.

My blog is lirorc.github.io :)
That's true.

The only proper way that I can see to join Mastodon is to have your own personal instance. And maybe that's how social media should be, but then the difference between that and a webserver with an RSS feed is getting quite small.
A pathological liar is lying, I wonder why.

I think the answer here is that he has no idea what he's doing and is making it up as he goes.
>The Musk comments are ridiculously low quality

What makes it low quality if he's deserving of ridicule?
Understanding the laws doesn't guarantee we'll be able to solve the problem. But not knowing them almost guarantees we will not do a good job.
There needs to be a better way to deal with fouls "in the area".
Time is a Wheel, Time is an Arrow: on linear and cyclic conceptions of time
Remember that additional 20 minutes is added because it's actually time they spent not playing. So in reality they're now playing a full 90 or 120 minutes after having in the past possibly played only 75 or 100.
It's exactly a classic "mod meltdown" situation. Like the guy who brought Freenode (hn passim)
Destroying Twitter should be a liberal effort. It's frankly sickening to step back and consider how much influential public discourse took place on a private platform. If you're a classical liberal, implementing protocols like ActivityPub is essential to promote competition across apps and platforms. Even if you're a conservative, it should be readily apparent how centralizing our communications power is a bad idea.

Whatever the case, it's clear that Twitter is beyond the pale now. Our only option is building a better world, there's no hope in putting the pieces back together like they used to be.
I cloned github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs during my explorations of vscode. It proved much harder for me to work with than the documentation for Emacs is. I downloaded some NPM package (pardon me if I don't look up which one) to serve the markdown files in the repo on a port on my local machine, which worked okay I guess, but I never found a way to search the markdown files that is more graceful than using grep on the markdown files, which gets me the names of the files of interest, then using the aforementioned NPM package to visit the file, then using the find command in my browser to search for the lines of interest that grep printed.

Also, there is a ton of basic information about web development that I needed to learn to try to start modifying my vscode install which of course is not included in that repo (vscode-docs) and I never found an easy way of getting an offline copy of that information. In fact, IIRC I didn't even find troves of markdown files that could be cloned with git or other shell one-liners.

Also, I have actually spent 100s of hours modifying Emacs "in anger" (i.e., although I wasn't getting paid for the work; the work was done as an earnest attempt to make my computing experience better or to make me more productive) while offline. Are you saying you've done the same with vscode? Heck: have you done that with any software implemented on web tech?

I hope I don't sound combative: I really want to know if such a thing would become possible for me if I invested more of my time in learning web tech.

I ask anyone reading this (not just the person I am replying to): is there anyone out there who routinely works on software implemented on web tech (i.e., browser or Electron or such) while disconnected from the net?

For a definition of "disconnected", let us use this: it would take at least a few minutes of work (e.g., I must walk out of my apartment to another part of my apartment building to use the net) or at least a few minutes of waiting (e.g., I have internet service in my apartment, but I usually keep the modem unplugged, and every time I plug it back in, it takes a few minutes for the connection to come up and become usable).
> desire to capture the Tik-Tok audience

The TikTok audience is the one that would also refuse to use Twitter specifically because of Elon.
You are simply wrong about this, that is not the cultural attitude that generates this response in something like 95%+ of cases.

Capital-D Deaf culture does not as a rule view their lack of hearing as a horrible wrong that needs to be corrected for them to live a “normal” life. They believe that they are living a normal life, and screw you for suggesting otherwise, and many would tell you that they do not want to speak your inferior language anyways, because it is broadly technically inferior due to its inherent one-dimensionality: you describe things with a scalar pressure varying with time only, their language describes things with motions in three dimensions of space as well as in time.

This means that in the 95% case, the dominant attitude is not “I’m afraid,” it's “those folks are assholes half the time, why would I want to join them if I don't have to?”. It's a cultural objection rather than a physiological one.
"I don't blame the victims"

I don't blame the victims as much as the scammers but I surely do put some blame on people too because Greed and/or desperation drives them to do things which are too good to be true. Most of us know better but still do it hoping it would pan out. There is no grift without grifters but there is no grift without gullible people as well.

If you are giving some stranger money so that you can double it in a year without really understanding why, you should be blamed. My 2 cents.
Not sure he lied. I think he fooled himself into thinking that moderating a social media platform can be done on a rose-tinted ideological basis. Then reality hit, and the fact is, there are so many edge-cases that being ideologically consistent is almost impossible.

Moderation is hard. And it matters, both to keep audiences & advertisers. Besides, First Amendment-based moderation is not even possible for an international company. Most of Europe have strict laws on holocaust-denial. Thailand & the UK have laws banning speech offensive to their royal families.

..etc, etc..
Gitlab no doubt has some wonderful people, but out-of-touch behaviour and scorning your most loyal user base tends to point to bad leadership. It's very difficult to course-correct bad leadership without somehow removing them — just look at Mozilla.
It can be safely implied from context when one is orders of magnitude bigger than the other.
Joking aside, Rome does have some amazing old architecture. The Pantheon's dome ceiling is remarkable and that's just one example.
Thanks, that makes perfect sense about things like VRRP and proxy arp, indeed they wouldn't work if the transceiver filtered on the destination MAC field of the Ethernet frame. I'm guessing this is exactly why this stuff is handled at L2 and in the kernel module for the NIC? I didn't understand your first example though:

>"Imagine you had 2 transceivers you wanted to bridge - if the transceiver dropped all unicast MACs but its own indiscriminately then it would not function properly"

I'm not understanding why bridging makes a difference. In the case of a bridge a host would send out a broadcast i.e a frame with destination MAC ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff which is valid for all Ethernet adapters, this is similar whether it's a switched or bridge network no? Maybe I'm missing something obvious?

>"Offloads such as this or other more advanced ones are implemented as optional hardware features (if at all) controlled by upstream signaling."

Which offloads are you referring to here? Just general TCP offload engine stuff? How does that relate?
Using their line of thought "intersex person" will become problematic as "inter" means "between" which presumes two fundamental sexes and that "intersex" therefore isn't a fundamental sex.
I think you are mistaking hard physical play with geopolitics. An understandable mistake! They look so similar. ;-)
I don't totally disagree with this measure, what is a social network without it's users.
There's no defense of this policy. (It's his platform, he's free to do what he wants within the bounds of the law, of course, it's just a stupid policy and antithetical to free speech.)
I love this quote.

I also wish Elizabeth Holmes didn't ruin it for me.
At this rate it'll be the nothing app.
Mastodon has moved well beyond where I thought it would in spite of having some pretty glaring shortcomings. If they fix those it will explode.

A 'Mastondoninabox' distribution would be a very nice starting point.
John Mastodon?
Musk should buy the debt himself for 40c on the dollar at this point