skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why hasn't a group of newspapers and other media together launched an exact knockoff of old twitter yet? Just neutral ground for all of them. If they have a whitehouse press pass, they're cleared as legit.

It's not technically hard to build and if you run your own servers not that expensive even at scale in the millions.

We have blazingly fast web servers and database software these days compared to when twitter and facebook first launched, even the hardware is exponentially faster and you don't have to support SMS anymore like how twitter got it's start.
Another reason not mentioned for cancelling those shows: no one watched them?

Not that I'm representative, but there was only one in there that I watch: Severance.
The article notes you can get a free read/write subscription at https://www.eternal-september.org/.
I consider something a social network when it is designed to create and make use of a graph of relationships between people. This is distinct from social media, though we use the two interchangeably a lot of the time. The "network" part is about the graph of relationships, the "social" part is about people (and not servers, as I suppose is the case with Usenet).

I'm not sure about Reddit, I don't use it often, but if you can only follow forums and not people, I would not call it a social network either.
In firefox at least, I see the same thing. But then if I refresh the page (with reader mode still enabled), I see the entire article.
> Is it "false and misleading" to say that (say) Joe Biden is corrupt? I certainly think so, but there are literally tens of millions of people who would profess to disagree.

Serious question: Do you honestly believe that Joe Biden is not corrupt? As far as I've seen, which is a lot, he's been a paid tool of the Delaware financial industry for his entire career. (By the way, I don't identify with any political party or politician, in case you think this criticism is partisan.)
Revolut has a EU banking license.
And, like VR, works wonders if you're in a room by yourself; once you are watching something with a group, now everyone has headphones on and it's all a mess.
It took a little finagling but ChatGPT is actually a very good interface to Goodreads: https://chat.openai.com/share/b460a929-4e70-4bfd-bd12-e61e78...
The Real Story of Musk’s Twitter Takeover
Stable is a problem because a lot of these shells don’t offer any guarantees for breaking changes.

My own shell, https://github.com/lmorg/murex is committed to backwards compatibility but even here, there are occasional changes made that might break backwards compatibility. Though I do push back on such changes as much as possible, to the extent that most of my scripts from 5 years ago still run unmodified.

In fact I’ve started using some of those older scripts as part of the automated test suits to check against accidental breaking changes.
I would wonder if there wouldn’t be inherent survivorship bias that would only make it seem like most smaller projects are as you call them “jewels”. The small bad ones don’t make it to you, but the big ones are too big to fail that sort of thing. Could extend that to big good ones being less surprising and normal because “it just works”.
Oh right, it was Office Communicator, then Lync and finally Skype for Business. And I think each somehow managed to get both worse and drop features.
Call your Congressperson. Ask them to support an appropriation specifically for Nasa's DSN. It only takes 5-10 minutes.

https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

"Hello, my name is $name. I am asking you to either sponsor legislation or to support legislation sponsored by another memeber of Congress to increase funding for NASA's Deep Space Network to an appropriate level, which to my understanding is roughly $700M, about $500M more than current allocated. I'm sure you are aware of the enormous amount of value that we enjoy from space science [1], and therefore why it is crucial NASA has the capability to continue to operate this communications network in order to enable that ongoing science. Thank you for your time."

They will ask for your zip code and possibly contact info to follow up (you'll usually get a letter or email from your rep on the topic).

> The agency's internal watchdog said a project to upgrade the three DSN sites with more 34-meter antennas and higher-power transmitters is five years behind schedule, and the cost of the upgrades has increased to $706 million. That expense takes a long time to pay off for the DSN's budget account, which has fallen from an annual level of about $250 million in 2010 to about $200 million today.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Benefits-Stem... (if you want specific value talking points)
It sounds like you may need to drink the coolaid about how an endless cycle of debt financing is the only way to survive as a business
I think journalists are allowed as long as they don't publish realtime location data of individuals, which seems consistent with safety policies elsewhere.

Edit: not complaining about downmodding, but if someone has a factual response, please post it, because I read a lot about civil liberties and haven't heard of any journalists being banned for non-safety reasons.
> What about 20 years? What about 1 year? Those are all irreversible.

You are using linguistic tricks to make a bad argument.

The fact that the past is immutable doesn’t mean that things can’t be reversed.

If you’re planning your day in the morning and you decide you’re going to have chicken tonight, you can never change the fact that you decided that you’re going to have chicken, but you can choose to not have chicken.

One way to stop yourself from making these sorts of bad linguistic arguments is to ask yourself, “does my argument mean that a word has essentially no use or meaning?”

That applies here, because your argument basically makes “irreversible” a nearly useless word.
Any time your argument is effectively making an adjective tautological, there is a problem. Because otherwise, why does the word exist?

> but there's a continuum all the way to death sentence. Are you also against life in prison?

And now you have moved to making a like kind argument that the death penalty is essentially the same as a slap on the wrist, since the past is immutable.

Here is another opportunity for a sanity check on your argument.

When the state has executed someone, that person can never be apologized to.
That person can never receive any sort of restitution.
That person went to their death, very often in extreme physical agony. (Both electric chair and lethal injection have horrific failure rates on this. Firing squad, hanging, and guillotine are all much more humane).
That person dies while a roomful of people who hate them watch through a pane of glass, sometimes cheering.
They die, knowing that most people think of them as an awful person undeserving of pity, sympathy, or love.

“””It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.”””

To make an argument that this is essentially the same as any other punishment, even life in prison, is really kind of gross.

> and never thoughts about it for 2 seconds.

Sometimes more than 2 seconds is good, too.
It was a shit show.
All the really cool kids never left EFnet.
Test for LLM Hallucinations
> This will include prohibiting the promotion of false or misleading content, including false or misleading information intended to undermine public confidence in an election

I think the recent mugshots of election fraudsters getting arrested in Georgia is probably concentrating the mind here on the question of "Is Twitter liable for amplifying election fraud messages?"
Argh, that's frustrating. That's been my default (uninformed) state -- those flags files never seem to work for me. I override launchers all the time.

I've found some comfort by placing my edited copies in ~/.local/share/applications and informing 'fuzzel' (my launcher) of it by ensuring the parent directory is in $XDG_DATA_DIRS

As long as the file names match those in the 'system' directories, these will win.
alas they are very selective about which rights they are concerned about. e.g. very territorial about physical space, but largely numb to big tech surveillance.

but indeed this issue is not aligned with traditional political divisions. there is simply no meaningful part of society that is better of from this large scale digital surveillance that is being inflicted against all people's best interest. the only beneficiary is the small oligarchy that is orchestrating this.
Turns out when people try to write press release copy when English isn't their first language it sounds kind of funny. I see this alot in my own line of work. Honestly they're just making their best emulation of the kind of stodgy copy we tend to write in better english that's honestly so samey you don't even need AI to make it, you can just use a cheapo markov chain generator. [1] I use this for my lorem ipsum personally, fun to watch bosses actually try to read it.

[1] http://pasta.phyrama.com:8083/cgi-bin/live.exe
> they're scaled up to look cool and own libs

Somewhat ironically, they're as big as they are because of the libs ... or at least because of Obama's modifications to the standards regulating vehicles through the use of the CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) program.

The TLDR is that fuel economy standards are now based on the footprint of a vehicle, which was designed to encourage the production of more, smaller vehicles overall, but which resulted in the unintended consequences of it being easier to make the truck bigger than to make it more fuel efficient.

Folks were warning that the standards would likely result in American cars getting "between 2 and 32 percent bigger[1]" years before, but it seems those warnings went unheeded.

[1] - https://me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/news/cafe-standards-c...
This makes me wonder if something like Google+ "circles" or the idea of maintaining a finsta could translate into a way to bring back posting on social media.

I think what Google+ got wrong is that connections are a 2-way street, you may not realize your new friend _wants_ the day-to-day updates and soccer game invites, because to you they may just be someone you met at work.

Imagine if you could have a list of feeds to follow, personal, professional, etc. And when adding someone you could follow whichever feeds you wanted, and unfollow certain ones at any point. Some could be private, so you'd have to be approved to follow.

Then I wouldn't feel the need to remove old acquaintances from fb, I would just unfollow their feeds. I would feel comfortable posting stuff related to my job/networking because I know only people following my professional feed would see it. And I'd be comfortable posting personal stuff to my personal feed if it was locked and I was the maintainer of who could follow it.

They could pretty easily implement this in facebook and I could imagine it breathing life back into the platform.
Very neat, excited to take a look, and especially excited that it is self hostable / open source. I've tried a number of services like this, and always end up back on a spreadsheet because:

1. I hate giving my data to a third party

2. There always ends up being some limitation that forces me to exclude part of my assets, doesn't let me handle something the way I wish, etc
> Every industry contributes a negligible amount.

What? No.
"Content" is uninteresting unless it can be monetised. I mean, why would anyone write a blog post or piece of software, much less a book or a song if there were no money attached?
It's very similar now that you mention it. It should feel the same and achieve roughly the same goals.
Oh yeah, alongside all these folks who listen to their music on loud speakers in crowded places (park, beach).
A lot people have strong anti San Francisco feelings.
What is the market data source (is there one?)
(I might have actually linked the wrong Switcher story. The one I remembered explained why it existence was strategic for Microsoft, but control over it was not: multitasking made memory optimization matter on a larger machine.)
In my (limited) experience with Bard it is not at all comparable to GPT4. I'd say it's a little worse than GPT3.5 even.
Most of my friends switched to StoryGraph and it’s been quite good
Not this one haha
That is true. The initial wave was driven by the sheer excitement of being able to “publish”. I do think that the ad supported model is still responsible for what happened next. Ads encourage optimizing for eyeballs and traffic vs quality. And that’s exactly what happened. The good stuff was buried by the ad optimized garbage everyone is complaining about.

Btw, I’m not dogmatically against ads. I believe they serve a purpose and are necessary. Just pointing out the side effects.
And R.I.P. kuro5hin.
Using the "Not Interested", and "Don't recommend this channel" options on recommendations you don't like does seem to help a fair bit too.
See the end of my comment: it launches the old app and asks if I want to switch back, it's not a dead link.

https://i.imgur.com/ODn13Ux.png

The link points to an executable that dates from the latest update of the old version a few days back. I've only installed the new one today.

I went investigating a bit, and there are two installations, running from different paths.

https://i.imgur.com/TbBXw3N.png

Actually, the same thing seems to happen with Outlook, if you enable "new outlook".
YouTube just added a feature to search transcripts. Seems like I might be in an experiment though
Their entire plan is:

- Deny the existence of the problem.

- Pay for others to join the denialist movement.

- Pay others to say that individuals should fix the problem, not the company.

- If they cannot deny anymore, promise they will certainly do something in the future.

- When the future arrives, say they couldn't do anything for financial reasons.

- Finally, say that the harm is already done, and nothing else can be done about it (we already see this happening).
I think the reason for this is probably more:

1. Risk aversion. "Nobody gets fire for buying IBM" still has some truth to it. Even if they don't deliver, the fact that IBM is one of (or the?) largest consulting firms in the world is in itself a defense for selecting them.

2. The government bid process. I don't know how this works in the UK, but in the US you have to jump through a lot of hoops if you want to work on government contract, so the same few firms tend to get selected a lot not because they are good, but because they know how to work the process.
I don't think that's really a docker problem. Its more about the instances of software that you want to run together.

e.g. nginx in isolation is useless. But is really useful when you want to expose a bunch of other services on a single http(s) interface.

When you are working at the compose level you are thinking about an ecosystem of services working together and of course then you are you using the compose tools to achieve that. But managing each component in isolation is much more tedious.
The Unix Haters Handbook [pdf]
The people doing this and anyone supporting it should be put away forever. Still a person's liberty and making them a slave is one of the worst possible lives for anyone and should be relegated only to the worst of criminals like murderers, rapists, and enslavers. I have zero tolerance for those types of people and think the international community shouldn't either.
We're complaining about the height of the vehicle. The footprint doesn't include height.
Is there any sort of time limit for writing off the production costs?

I guess it makes some sense when you scrap a project completely and take a loss in exchange for a write-off, but some of these shows have been available for years.
I only use it as a light tracker of what I've read, but I'm moving to Obsidian for this purpose. The main thing it does for me is be a relatively good way to search up metadata about a book (author, year published, etc). Is there something more open? (Looked at LibraryThings, but its API does not seem to be available currently).
Running Fast and Slow: Experiments with BPF Program Performance
And are there any particular worrying symptoms for this type of brain fungal infections?
He’s back on Twitter, like nearly everyone else who tried a Twitter clone.
I also like Teams, clunkiness aside it's a great business asset for the price. Unmatched at even double or triple the price by anything else out there I think.

However, I've only been using it for six months. So maybe it used to be worse and that's where all the hate comes from?

Also, most of the clunkiness seems to hit me the worst as the admin and sole tech person at our company. The rest of that users seem to be doing just fine.
"China politicians do what yours would if they could, and will the moment they can".

Difficult to translate from the source in spanish. I hope it is understandable.
It is just whoever the CRTC/Heritage Minister deems to be a Digital News Intermediary. If designated then these companies will have to pay to use links pointing to large media companies in Canada. The price will be determined either through negotiation or forced arbitration, but regardless Bill C-18 is a tax on news links in Canada. The effect of which is of course censorship even if it's not targeted but instead content-neutral. This will hurt the smaller publishers more than the larger publishers (who are actively getting monetary compensation) and so Bill C-18 effectively censors small news media in Canada.

If anyone is wondering the criteria for being deemed a Digital News Intermediary, there are two requirements: 1. a platform must be in a position of a “significant bargaining imbalance” between themselves and the news businesses. This is determined by the CTRC / Heritage Minister and is based on several factors (outlined in section 6 of the bill): e.g. "whether such an imbalance exists, including the size of the platform, whether the market gives the platform a strategic advantage, and if the platform occupies a prominent market position. According to Rodriguez (the Heritage Minister), only two platforms meet this standard: Google and Meta. This is why platforms such as Microsoft (with Bing and LinkedIn), Twitter, and Apple are not subject to the law even though they feature news links. 2. The second requirement is that the digital news intermediary must make news available content available to persons in Canada. If the platform does not make news content available, it is not a digital news intermediary.
That would be a solid approach to ensure that the next incident is more severe and longer lasting.
IBM are just a big body shop contracting firm, like Accenture or Cap Gemini . I don’t think they’re any better or worse than the others
The desire and market is there for Good TV Shows...

I am still waiting for one of the Streaming Services to Make a Good TV Shows...

Until then I have TB's of good content from the past on my Home Media Server, I have no problems re-watching...
It'll be interesting to see if, and to what extent, they can act in concert in the long term. It's not currently clear to me whether they stand for the same principles or share a common set of values (apart from apparently opposing a Western-centric uni-polar world order).

It could be that, by doubling in size, they're actually hindering themselves by "adding more cooks to the kitchen".
What I don't like about Parallels and VMWare, is that they push all of those integrations between OS, like openings Windows from Windows in macOS. Or opening some documents from macOS right in Windows. I prefer to have VM isolated from my main macOS. So it is always going through all configurations and trying to figure out what I need to turn off.
Social Media started it's down fall ~2008 when the teachers and parents joined facebook.

I remember when facebook was _only_ the fellow kids you knew. There were inside jokes, offensive stuff, lots of pure text posts. It was _way_ different.

Parents and teachers joined, a couple kids got in trouble for what they posted on facebook, and everyone stopped using it freely.
Build a social network and nobody will come.

It's the audience that's valuable, and on Old Twitter the huge diversity of sources. It used to be a valuable input into news, and that's one of the things that basically been destroyed without replacement. No doubt individual journos are keeping eyes on parts of Mastodon, but it's fundamentally not as suitable.
Isn't "wealth" a misnomer.

Do people with real wealth really use open source tools?

Or do they have meetings with their accountants, bankers, brokers.

This is really "wanna be wealthy" tools.
You don't have to visit the youtube website. People recommend videos here and I sometimes use a search engine to find them. To watch them I use youtube-dl or VLC. It's marginally less convenient but I avoid a world of nonsense.
People make mistakes, get over it.
How though is this different from Google bundling everything into gmail? Are all of those going to be removed now too?
We are having genuine discussion, it's just that certain people are trigger happy with flagging anything that goes against a certain narrative.

I have had multiple instances where my account was flagged because I expressed a contrarian view, and I couldn't actually participate because I was rate-limited.

No censorship also does not mean "genuine", 4chan is an example of this; virtually everything sans CSAM is "allowed", but genuine discussions are not happening because of trolls.

Ultimately, you will most likely not have a genuine discussion online, and irl you need a particular group of people who are capable of entertaining differing opinions.

In the span it took me to write this comment, GP received -3 and two other comments -4 total, proving the point.

I tried to respond to sibling chain, and to none's surprise, I have been rate-limited again and I am effectively banned from discussing anything in this thread :).
Sounds more like SK is hostile just to middle and lower class families. No that that makes it right but that's the correct interpretation.
Where did I claim anything about the currently installed energy mix?
I claimed that no wind and no sun happen very seldomly across Europe.
The aspect of the 2045 scenario is irrelevant here.

Btw. it's important to note that there are more renewable sources besides wind and sun: heat from the earth, water (e.g. rivers, tides), bio gas, ...
I had forgotten about that essay. Quite appropos in these times (probably in all times, but there are a few current topics that immediately spring to mind).