skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's absolutely not compatible with Digital Services Act: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

> Example of the “don'ts” - Gatekeeper platforms may no longer:

> treat services and products offered by the gatekeeper itself more favourably in ranking than similar services or products offered by third parties on the gatekeeper's platform

> prevent consumers from linking up to businesses outside their platforms
Musk:

"New Twitter policy is freedom of speech"

also Elon Musk:

"accounts promoting competitors will be deleted"

Musk:

"I won't ban the account tracking my plane"

Also Musk:

"The account tracking my plane is banned"

Musk:

"Doxing is bad and any accounts that mention or link to or report on anything doxing will be banned"

Also Musk:

"legion of followers who is this paparazzi? Here is is licence plate. Someone tell us all who he is".

Must be nice to be able to buy and sell your version of free speach that is free only as long as it does not irritate you.
Is there a HN Mastodon server?
Absolutely. I'm glad to see this.

If I was a friend of his, I'd suggest that it's a good chance to think about why he was convinced Elon would do well and adjust as necessary, but it's also quite possible that he doesn't feel like he's obliged to do that self-examination in public. And he's not.
Some of those people especially the YC alumni need to be upfront about whether they’ve invested in Musk’s Twitter. Because direct questions have been asked without answer.

Because otherwise I can not understand the logic behind defending Musk’s reign as CEO. Ignoring the chaotic policy changes what bothers me is the treatment of Twitter’s employees. Nobody should ever have to leave their house because of death threats. And surely Parag/Jack should be ultimately held accountable for what happened at the company under their reign.
Mastodon is getting slammed by the twitter exodus, this is the first time it's being truly tested.
You're a rare person, in 2022.
i know the brain poison social media gives us all… it’s wild to see
For those wondering about how to sign up to mastodon and what server to pick:

It's like picking an email server. They all have their differences, but generally they are interoperable. You can read users from anywhere, and follow from anywhere. Better yet, it's fairly easy to move your account from one server to another if you don't like it.

Your best bet is some of the bigger second-tier servers (ones that have thousands but not hundreds of thousands of users) because they aren't as heavily loaded.

https://instances.social/

https://github.com/McKael/mastodon-documentation/blob/master...
Niiice thank you!
Choose another. They don't all have to be on one email server, and they don't all have to be on one Mastodon server.
Pick at random, or find one with a theme you enjoy. You can always move off it; a few clicks and your followers migrate over to the new one.
I wonder when, if ever, mainstream migration will happen. For example most TV channels were posting World Cup goals on Twitter asap. Same if you follow for example NFL. Easy to follow the games with instant highlights. When will these leave or simply stop posting?
Pascal graduated to Delphi (Object-pascal with built-in GUI designer), and had a very healthy run for a decade and was my favorite language until Borland corporate stuff happened and a cross-licensing deal with Microsoft that turned Delphi into a sort of bastard sibling of .NET, and new owner Embercadero raised prices out of the reach of most of the small-time users that made up a bulk of the userbase. I was in a tiny factory-automation engineering group that used it to build user interfaces and data reporting for all the factory stations. Well, on that note, 3M corporate shut down the factory and moved it to China, so maybe other forces were in play to kill the userbase.
Strengthen oversight of risky research on pathogens
Depends on the definition of GOAT. When he was at his peak, he played the best football ever played.

By the way, both Maradona and Messi when previously asked, have answered something along the lines that that he was the greatest.
Do you live under a rock? This place has always been libertarian, and since Trump has turned into an echo chamber of alt-right grievances in tech. The initial burst of cheering from this forum over Elon initially buying twitter to "destroy wokeness" was deafening.
Go Messi!
Yeah idk after looking into it more after the response, it seems like others are suggesting it wasn't simply the request for his shirt, but the request following bad calls by refs and provocations from the Dutch team.

Who knows what all went down, but definitely not as simple as he was being asked to exchange shirts. He had to of been either instigated prior by the other team/another player or fuming from bad calls
The most ridiculous problem with Mastodon I think is the fact that even if I visit his profile I can't follow him because we are on two different servers. I have to copy his profile url and paste it in my logged in instance. This then takes me to his profile where I can follow him. That's just too much work!
> You can always decide to switch later, as you can set your old account to indicate that you moved to a different account.

A small cool detail you didn't add: when you do that, anyone who was following you will automatically and seamlessly follow the new account.
I see what you were trying to say now, yes he was excellent and will go down in Argentine history thanks to his heroics in both the Copa and World Cup wins.
That metric is taking a real beating lately.
Every promise Musk made about Twitter broken in less than two months?
His process as, I understand it, is to re-discover the wheel and see how else it could have been done. It is messy and might not yield good results if his predecessors already did a good job but I think he has a chance and will look like a dumpster fire until he learns and finds a new path. If he fails, it will look like extinguished dumpster fire :)
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040165
Audis don't come with it because it's illegal in Germany according to my old neighbor so he always had to install an aftermarket one...
I found the ThinkPad L14 G1 14 FHD 4650U 8GB 256SSD EN W10Pro at ~700$ locally, it's a bit less in memory to run dual boot. So there should be really good reasons to abandon soldered RAM in E14.
I asked a person from a PC repair shop, whether he potentially could perform the same on system board, as this guy on DEll XPS from the link above. And he told, that theoretically it is possible to rewire the resistors on board so that BIOS won't detect soldered RAM and use only the insertable RAM, but there's the risk of overheating of the board and making the laptop not operational.

Though I can't see enough logic here for board overheating, if you leave the soldered RAM in the board and only resolder the Serial Prescence Detect module resistors in specific points on board. The board could overheat if you resolder the RAMs themsleves and not the small resistors.
I can't read this tweet because he's blocked me. Can someone tell me what it says?
Obsession with politics is a cancer that infects even the brightest
I think at one time, we probably went our own way because we were first or best.

But today it just seems hardheaded. And it's not just metric...you have ANSI vs ISO, electrical systems, 4g and 5g radio bands, etc. With a world population 20 times the US population, I foresee a lot more companies just deciding it doesn't make financial sense to bother with the US market. We already see that with smartphones.
I was able to get nostr-rs-relay[0] running in <5 minutes on fly.io. Got all my client apps and those of ~5 friends writing to and posting from it. Hasn't crashed yet.

[0] https://github.com/scsibug/nostr-rs-relay
Doesn't seem so. Everyone I know who left a month ago and posted their Post and Mastodon links still have them up on their profiles. This only seems to target new posts so far.
> Elon is a modern day Kissinger

You're going to have to elaborate on that fascinating historical reference.
Yep. Distributed systems, like any complex systems, follow "slowly at first, then all at once."
He'll be back.
If you hate Twitter you will despise Mastodon.
So, when is @HNStatus leaving Twitter?
Can't say about pg, but I left Twitter (I'm a regular, non-blue user) because the ads lately got out of control. Every other post is a promoted ad from a totally unrelated category, which I can't relate to. Ads targeting either stopped working, or Twitter allowed large numbers of low quality advertisers to push their ads.
I mean my reaction is: ok I don’t care about this billionaire spat
Seems relevant https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1604069050220519424
> ps. You can also follow hashtags if interested in a specific topic.

AFAIK, only if your server is on Mastodon 4.0.0 or newer, as Mastodon 3.x didn't have that feature yet.
Yes, I also feel in many cases is not abuse but scam. For example, I bought a Muse Brain device just to discover that plain retrieving of EEG (not meditation or sleep options in the mobile app) metrics was a subscriber only option. So what are you selling Muse? Refrigerators?
That’s simply not true, per the policy:

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...

> At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL…
I feel like we’re losing context here. My comment wasn’t in reference to what I do, or what you do. It was in reference to what the root comment said they did.

The person in the root comment proposed that their practice of letting their ICE car warm up to defrost in the winter may lead to decreased gas mileage. This is correct; it will.
It's not a dumpster fire, its 5d chess!
I would think that something happening all over the world would hint that globalization may be a factor.
Lots of us are on hachyderm, but there's no official HN one.
Messi's faced better defensive players as the game's evolved.
Mbappe has such an insane future if he keeps it up. He could've won his 2nd worldcup and he's only 23 years old, and has already scored more goals than almost anyone in a WC, while almost entirely carrying his team. I'm glad France lost, because they have the potential to be completely dominant for another 10 years, and that's even without mbappe.
That may be the written policy, but there were widespread reports of mastodon ('s largest sites) being considered too harmful a link to be put in a twitter bio. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blockin...

I don't see PG reacting to that news on twitter. Is there a reaction anywhere?
I have for years posted to Twitter via LinkedIn. Presumably this is some kind of official relationship between the platforms or a sanctioned use of Twitters API.

I wonder what risk my Twitter account would have for closure? LinkenIn originated posts refer to LinkedIn if the post exceeds Twitters character limits.

(In case you’re wondering I do this to keep my Twitter active but avoid having to actually login and see Twitter :) )
interesting, when I used to read more fiction, I never actually 'read the words' either, I just skimmed the page with my eyes and my mind played a movie in my head

wonder if the same pathways can work for audio, do you use something custom to read for you or something off-the-shelf?
A 150-word fortnightly geeky questions on the world
I just want to say that I still enjoy BASIC, but via BlitzMax NG.
It's a good language to quickly prototype things in - https://blitzmax.org/
Twitter is already actively regulated by the FCC and operating under a fairly strict regime.
Agreed entirely, but I thought the "free speech" stuff would last longer than that 3-6 months, if for no other reason than to avoid the embarassment of it.
No. If your instance defederates from another you can still link to it (though you might get banned if you link to something nasty, depending on your instance's rules). Defederating simply prevents your instance from automatically pulling posts from the other instance, aka the status quo for non-federated platforms.
You're conflating trends within aggregated data and individual data points. Moving towards a healthier population would reduce cancer rates across the total population. It would not remove cancer entirely. Likewise any arbitrary person might be in complete health & get cancer and vice versa as you say. The two are not contradictory.

A similar example is with early detection. The data show that at population scale a lot of early detection efforts cause more harm than good. The problem is that any arbitrary person might have their life saved by said early detection. It's impossible to know who those arbitrary people will be.
Not enough yet. Too much is still free or free-with-ads.

Stuff costs money to maintain
He could have bought parler, truth or whatever for far less and already been closer to his goal.
Henry Ford was very rich, and very stupid outside his fields of expertise. And supported antisemites along with the Nazi regime.
What sort of decisions or behavior would lead you to believe that somebody is stupid?
Wasn’t the only mastodon account banned the one that was posting links to the doxer account?
Eh, lifetime Plex Pass pays itself for three years even at normal pricing. I got mine during a discount so mine pays itself off in about 2 years and 3 months, which would have been in November 2022. I don't also remember seeing any streaming services in my Plex instance.

I'm definitely happier having my lifetime Plex Pass over a monthly subscription.
> It's like picking an email server. They all have their differences, but generally they are interoperable.

Disagree. Mastodon servers can be all over the place from politics to hobbies to tech. It’s not like an email handle at all your choice _matters_ because others moderate the server and who you can connect with.

Self hosting is the only way to go with Mastodon (costs the same as Twitter Blue btw if you don’t want to do your own)
If you Qwit then they win.
stupid doesn't end a conversation. It starts it. Ok, someone thinking is different (stupid). But how exactly do they think? Why? What drives? Where does the break or wrong start?
> Let’s tax the hell out of processed foods so they become at least on par with the price of healthy food.

Isn't processed food already more expensive than "healthy"? E.g. precut fries vs potatoes. Etc.

What is cheaper to buy processed?
I am not an Elon fan, but I agree Musk is a smart guy. I just don't think smartness on its own is very valuable. Indeed, it can be very dangerous when it lets you think that you know better than everybody else despite them having way more experience in their fields. A classic example is the XKCD cartoon "Physicists": https://xkcd.com/793/

I've met some incredibly smart narcissists, and you know what they use their smarts for? The same sort of continuous ego inflation that less smart narcissists do. Their smartness just makes things worse, because they're less likely to have the sort of comeuppance that leads to a moment of clarity.
+1. Also companies take advantage of the taxation benefits of SaaS as an operational expense, instead of having to depreciate the capital expenditure when buying software over x years.
Majority of people here on HN were also convinced he will try to make Twitter better. Not everybody believed that he will succeeded but it seems like majority belived that he will at least try hard. Like improve app to purchase things (one click checkout), integrate with real time news, some free speech, sports, … so many ideas
From what I've heard (haven't done this myself yet) if you install Firefox manually instead of through a package manager, it has an internal update mechanism that doesn't trigger the "please restart" page. That page is for when a package manager swaps files out from under it, while the internal mechanism waits for you to restart.
So I notice a trend for people to take seem to take stabs at PG whenever he's brought up, and sometimes not seemingly even relevant to the article at hand.

I suppose you can only speak for yourself, but I find the words "insipid" and "embarrassing" particularly emotional / unscientific. Out of curiosity, what is there a connection to the article at hand or alternatively why do you feel it's important to spread awareness of his incompetence?
Can this script be automatically updated using a remote host?
GP said American cities….
Agreed. It was a genuine, high intensity game.

No diving, no risk-averse passes for minutes, no BS. It was a proper world cup final.
My recent impression of pg is that he is raising his family and is wealthy beyond measure. He doesn't need to influence anyone, and aside from his small quips on startups, seems to be checked out. He's not irrelevant but not being on twitter has zero impact on his life, because he doesnt need a mouth piece anymore
Not as long as Elon continues his trend of acting progressively stupider. At least to me, there’s a stark difference in his public appearances. He used to appear intelligent, thoughtful, and nuanced. Now he’s disjointed, often tired, and quick to deflect with jokes or political controversy. Doesn’t seem like the same man.
I don't follow. Did you mean to reply to a different comment?
Voluntary for now. some HR department will pick up on it and institute it as mandatory. I have a bet with my spouse on if I will retire first or be fired by the language police.
If you don't hate stupid people, how do you know that you're smart?
"The origin of the saying of the dead, which emphasises the nothingness of earthly life, is attributed to Arabic poetry. Thus the Arab poet ʿAdī b. Zayd, as he rode past graves with the king of Hira (c. 580 CE), has the dead exclaim to the king:

"We were what you are; But the time will come, And it will come to you swiftly, when ye shall be what we are."

Like the dance of death and the triumph of death, the motif is emblematic of the medieval admonition memento mori. Simultaneous depiction of the topoi is common, for example in Francesco Traini's mid-fourteenth-century fresco Triumph of Death, which depicts the three living and the three dead. The legend was also integrated in the Dance of Death by Kientzheim.

A fresco from the Isefjord workshop in the church of Tuse (Denmark) from the 15th century shows three mounted kings on the hunt, who are met by three dead kings from whom maggots and worms escape. Each of them is assigned a banner. On the first dead man's banner is written: "Vos qui transitis n(os)t(r)i me(m)ores rogo sitis" (You who are passing by, I beg you: Remember us), on the second: "Quod sumus hoc eritis" (What we are now, you shall become one day) and on the third: "Fuimus aliquando quod estis" (We were once what you are now). Above their heads one reads: "Heu qua(n)tus est noster dolor" (Oh, how great is our pain)."

https://old.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/n8dzuo/quod_sumus_ho...
What's the point of announcing that you're leaving a social media platform?
in the short term controversy and events drive traffic up. world cup going on, holidays and seasonal traffic, elon chaos. all probably makes twitter looks like a success at the moment. it would be to hard to separate out the traffic i think.
That's easily disprovable, as I hate Twitter and like Mastodon. Some small growing pains, but it's been the best experience I've had on social media since Google+.
That would overwhelmingly be a tax on the poor and low income. It would probably not fix obesity anymore than taxing cancer patients would fix cancer.
Yeah, Snap updates seem cursed for the newest Ubuntu.

I'm on Fedora these days, can't see ever leaving it the way things are going. It's rock solid and seems to be driving the state of the art in Linux things...
what do you consider a centrist website?

(I am centre-right by my country's standards, yet my perception of HN is that it leans even more right)
Ship in German ‘Titanic’ film sank, killing far more than the real one
Benzema could have (should have) been a sub in the final - they even took Giroud out early! But in true French fashion they couldn’t get over their drama.

Still it let Mbappe shine and put on a legendary show
https://archive.vn/OS8A4
why twitter when you can nitter?

https://nitter.net
Terence Tao is on mastodon. Beat that!
They have lost many of their previous highend brand advertising. I now see almost exclusively advertisting from right wing alt brands like 'black rifle coffee'. One can safely assume that their advertising revenue has taken a huge hit. A few thousand people tossing elon $8 a month isnt going to make up for that.
..like most of the world, really. I'm not sure where some people got the impression that people are anywhere close to being 50/50 between left vs right.
I doubt Musk would be interested in a mere government position where he has to act on the orders of a boss. Very few of those are open to elections in the first place, so he probably could have one if he just wants it. Apart from having a conflict of interest that would probably bar any reasonable president from offering one.
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See? Much better!
I quit football a few years ago but I have to admit that this final game was exciting and full of "suspense" (I couldn't completely ignore it, I watched the extra time and penalties). I would like to cite a few facts..

1. Since the 2002 world cup in Japan/Korea, every time, if the winner is European , it got kicked out in the next tournament in the first round. 2002(France), 2010(Italy), 2014(Spain) and 2018(Germany). however, France broke the rule this time and almost won the title!

2. France had lost two finals in its history, both were in penalties (Today, and in 2006 against Italy).

3. Both Argentina and France have won the title two times so far. Argentina won the coveted trophy in 1978 and 1986 while France achieved glory in 1998 and 2018. So this final is: for whom the 3rd trophy goes? it turns out to be Argentina

4. France had the chance to join Italy (1934, 1938) and Brazil (1958,1962) to be the 3rd Team to win two World Cups successively, but failed.
I had a devil of a time trying to promote my linkinBio tool BiggerBio on twitter.
https://Bigger.Bio
What is that in absolute numbers?
Not even a bit
Yes that's true in terms of the local feeds, but in terms of getting one's feet wet it's fine.

For HN users, this is one among many reasonable tech-oriented choices:

https://techhub.social

Here are a couple that are infosec oriented:

https://infosec.exchange

https://ioc.exchange/
Vodafone isn’t just in the UK, either. It’s the third-largest mobile network in the world.
Congress has the power to make laws that the Executive Branch is responsible for enforcing.
Looks like mastodon might come out the winner here. I'm not a Musk hater but ruling twitter with an iron fist and imposing arbitrary new rules and bans won't end well.
It's interesting how VCs suddenly seem to believe "tech companies are bloated and need to layoff staff", now that they can't just show up at a bank and get literal buckloads of other people's money with no justification or due diligence, but were all in on "tech startups must continually grow at any cost" just a few months ago.

Once again, society will be left holding the rich sociopaths' bags and dealing with the externalities of their uncontrolled gambling.
> (Firefox updates at random time, then kindly asks to reboot by replacing each webpage by a grey one with a restart button, and it doesn't restart tabs in private windows)

I understand why they push so storngly to frequent updates and consider that idea mostly as good. However that implementation always makes me furious. I am in some workflow, doing some form of transactional thing and suddenly it decides to stop working without restart, where then half my work is gone. If they'd say "hey, new update ready update in next few hours" I'd be fine and could schedule it (well I would still not like it as I hoard too many open tabs thus restart takes time ... but could tolerate)