skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right: managing a server is hard work. Thankless moderation mostly.

But that is even more reason to take away the additional work of keeping a large and convoluted rails-codebase up-to-date, running and performing.

Also, part of why moderation is such a giant task, is that in the fediverse, servers (instances) tend to be big. Huge even. It's far easier to manage a server that hosts your ten friends, or the 30 members of your alumni-club, or the 42 members at the local hackerspace than a server with 2000+ random users.

Another reason why lowering the barrier to the technical part of managing a server must be lowered.
Puzzles which require guessing at any point are generally considered "not solvable". The goal of solving a sudoku puzzle is not actually to get a grid with 81 numbers in it, and trying to progress by guessing defeats the whole point.
I haven't read the article, so I don't know if it's out-right theft or theft due to inflation (devaluation of legitimate tokens).

Traditionally, scarcity of digital music does not give it value, whereas scarcity of digital tokens does give it value.

Are you asking at what point does inflation start to hurt others?
Who’s to say what we “should” do? Our nature is what it is.
The UN can not stop congress from changing a law nor can they obtain an injunction to stop congress from changing a law nor can they obtain a court order to undue an act of congress nor can they stop congress from partially violating a treaty.

Reference:

"What happens when a treaty provision and an act of Congress conflict? The answer is that neither has any intrinsic superiority over the other and therefore the later one will prevail. In short, the treaty commitments of the United States do not diminish Congress’s constitutional powers."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-2/sec...
Reading Satoshi's writings and comments I often got the impression that his intentions were pure. But it is and should be painfully obvious that the only things crypto has principally enabled or made efficient are sophisticated scam work/ransomware, background sex work, and drug trade. To really top it off: it was all at the expense of a small country's carbon footprint.

So I keep having this thought that if Satoshi really is worth his salt, he would transfer his existing funds (of about 50 billion USD) to an assortment of charities because such an action would be quite the statement in declaring that the crypto experiment has been an abject failure and it's time to stop wasting our time and move on. Better he make this impactful statement, better him the person who started it all be behind the action to finish it, than to have to continue in this painful and agonizing path we are on.
I do this frequently when vacationing. A lot of thrift store CD stocks have been picked over in recent years, but with enough flipping I can frequently find something that maybe has a gold nugget on it. Then I rip it to my collection (currently about 1300 CDs worth).

But I’m a bit surprised how the inventory has shrunk over the last 5 or 6 years. Cmon people, unload your old CDs at thrift stores! :)
Publish Notion pages as blog posts to your JAMstack site
Why? The homeless aren't stupid, and we have libraries and other institutions that can provide education.
>As such, the cybercriminals managed to pull off the attack by impersonating the victim of the attack for roughly 13 hours. If Registration Lock had been enabled, they could not have logged in to the app knowing only the phone number and verification code.

and if Signal did not require a phone number, this wouldn't have happened at all
Despite inflation, Americans less likely to cut Prime, Netflix than food spend
Well if only having your own server on Mastodon was realistic, instead its totally impossible to get discovered.

There is fix for this, which is Fedverse Relays, but guess what ? Mastodons official servers don't use them.
> How about the homeless person remembers a good password, and that's all that's needed for authentication?

Gosh, I don't know, how about literally all of the problems that 2FA solves in the first place? Passwords alone are a bad solution (often forgotten, easily re-used insecurely) for people without all of the challenges and frequent mental issues that accompany homelessness, why would you think they'd be a good solution for people who, as the OP says, aren't capable of keeping track of a physical device for more than N weeks?

I'm not unsympathetic to the problems of the homeless ant the burdens 2FA entails, but I'm also not willing to ignore the huge problems the 2FA solves, and realizing there will often be a tradeoff between making it very difficult to hack into accounts and making it easy for people with mental and other problems access their accounts.
I was a tape boy, I couldn't believe how great CD music sounded in comparison. When I saw CD players in cars it blew my mind, the future had arrived.
The problems are downstream of that.

Not having 2FA is going to allow some portion of users to get hacked. When those users do get hacked they will need a way to regain control of the account. Methods of regaining access to an account are notorious for bad actors social engineering their way to gaining control of accounts.

2FA relieves some of that, because even if you do get hacked you can provide a token from the authenticator that was attached to the account, proving that you do in fact own that account.

> I think it's excessively paternalistic to not provide that option.

I don't find it paternalistic. The goal is to cut down on support costs by reducing the number of users who get hacked and need assistance regaining access to their accounts, and to force users to have a method of demonstrating they own the account even if they can't log in. That it confers some additional security to users is nice, but not really the end goal.
I regret taking antibiotics for years in high school as a treatment for acne. We just did what the doctor recommended without giving it much thought. My gut has been a mess ever since and it really impacted my quality of life during the “healthiest” years of my life.
I said mostly. We will find a lot of examples following this ideas, narratives, symbols the author mentiones in modern time but also earlier (30years war, crusades etc.). But until the industrial evolution, state income was basically taxes on land(in coin but also in big part in kind) and this was mostly fought over. I don't disagree with you, I just think the author has the balance the wrong way around
Even if you don't care about Racket, the talks at RacketCon are always really interesting and it is a very affordable conference.
Saudi Arabia lowers oil prices for Europe but raises them again for the US
Not to fret... we'll just print more.
I understood this as soon enough after they close.
For me, the real power of containers is that all the mistakes I could've made during the install are in ~a single file instead of a long forensic goose chase
"zero confirmed deaths after 43 years" sounds a lot like "zero confirmed deaths" to me
You're speaking of the renaissance lute. The baroque lute was most often in an open D minor tuning for the top (fretted) strings: ADFADF.
In these cases, stolen usually means that existing tokens were moved around in some way. In this case, it looks like they hacked a bridge connecting one tokens protocol to another 'chain' and redirected tokens there - not sure if they were swiping them out of a wallet at rest or redirecting trades people were doing.
This is really neat. I hope they are secretly creating a hand-based slinger for this super strong spider silk.
Let me stay upright. 15M seems a lot. What's in there ? High-def country flags for Retina ?

edit: ok, size is ~4.5M on my Debian, of which transmission-gtk accounts for 3.6. Maybe graph libs are bigger on mac ?
I've usually seen this quote attributed to Socrates:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10290499-rather-you-marry-o...

If memory serves, it's not in any of the dialogues that survive; but was anciently attributed to him.
I was in High School when it happened, and yes I remember looping footage of the buildings coming down. I think it was a shock response more than a crafted plan to get views, but it did show them how to hold your attention.

One detail I remember about being in school is that we were all old enough to understand, but I was told that younger students did not understand that they were watching replays of the same incident and thought multiple buildings were collapsing every time.
Everyone talks about the application but this could actually be a very valid argument, if we shift focus to libtransmission.

Over 10 years ago I've worked on a very custom BitTorrent-related application for an ISP. Roughly, it was a piece of software that acted like caching proxy but for torrents, intended to lower upstream congestion. Legal questions aside, it was a success - but, anyway, back to Transmission.

I needed a very custom client, and libtransmission was (in my personal opinion) hand-down the sanest and powerful option. I liked the design of the API, how there are only a minimum number of hoops to "just" get a torrent running, and yet how one can gradually expand. Honestly I don't remember any details beyond the overall impressions - it was very long time ago - but I liked it. And what I remember is that one of the features I valued was that it was written in C - because I wanted to use it from Python. I mean, C ABIs are generally quite significantly easier to work with in any language that has FFI, compared to C++ ABIs.

CFFI had improved since then, of course, and I haven't looked into v4 library at all so maybe they have an interface without any C++ nuances... But in general, the point is that libraries written in C are typically easier to interface with.
> in practice turns every interaction into a way to extract more money and get more lock-in.

Which we see causing all the major problems of the world right now. I'm glad people are waking up to this. Post-covid, I see many people that work at these jobs choosing not to support institutions that are turning the human part into resource extraction.
> f*c*book

Are we censoring Facebook now? Is this the modern version of using M$ Instead of Microsoft?

Edit: fixed quote, and learned more about hn text styling
why are you censoring facebook?
This is a testament to how well Reed-Solomon encoding/decoding [1] can detect and correct errors! I remember even heavily scratched cd's would work if you cleaned them with toothpaste of all things (?) [2]

This is unlike blowing an NES cartridge, which actually had a detrimental effect due to blowing spit on the pin contacts and oxidizing them.. [3] I do remember Babbages/KB Toys/etc did actually sell NES/SNES/Gameboy cartridge cleaning kits though [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-interleaved_Reed%E2%80%9...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=clean+cd+rom+toothpaste

[3] https://www.denofgeek.com/games/nes-cartridge-blowing-air-ur...

[4] https://www.thevintagegamers.com/2012/11/vintage-gaming-clea...
As soon as you buy in to any concept, idea or a myth — it (or rather your subjective interpretation of it) starts manifesting in your real life with real consequences.

If you truly want to achieve some goal — you'd rather find and absorb any examples of other people achieving similar goals, and filter out everything else.
Yeah, that's a valid business. I also looked into that. wWould not mind to colaesce with others who think it could be worth to go to sanctuaries/worship palces and try to establish the service. think St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. St. Francis in Assisi, etc. (I am from Italy, but I guess every country has some sort of shrine where everyone goes, turists included)
Mux founder here, thanks for the mention!

The cost bit is one hear a lot, and it's tough. There's no way around it, video can just get expensive at scale. Services that try to get away from charging for usage are just trying to play an averages game; once you cost them enough you'll hear from them.[1]

We are looking at ways to help developers limit the risk of a runaway bill and just generally manage their cost shape a little more. If you're up for chatting about it feel free to shoot me a note (matt at mux).

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979126/vimeo-patreon-cr...
Text length has been limited and I am fed up with STDs, -100% absolute bias for all stds I can think off, the usage of the words „butt“, „penis“ and „casual sex“ will also be mostly reduced.
I don't think Wikipedia and NPR have aged that well though, there are lots of topics where they're essentially (or literally) paid propaganda for their major donors and because they're a non-profit it's less clear what's what than if they had paid advertisements
I still have all of my Sega Genesis MK cartridges.

But when I really wanted to talk trash in the PS2 era, I would brag about beating someone with Kuma.
So on one hand we've got the actual author of the original document saying one thing and on the other hand we've got an uninvolved internet poster saying something else.
I like how Matrix handles this: You can either download and store locally a key that you enter into a new device to decrypt the encrypted messages stored on the server; or you have one of your other active devices decrypt its locally stored messages and send them to the new device (using some form of verification to prove you control both devices).
Google's the best example to be honest.
If you want to spin up an instance... https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

I will note that the kiwix.org site appears to not be completely correct with publicly hosting the data and the licensing requirements:

> Ensure that any Internet use of the content includes a hyperlink for each author name directly back to his or her user profile page on the source site on the Network (e.g., http://stackoverflow.com/users/12345/username), directly to the Stack Exchange domain, in standard HTML (i.e. not through a Tinyurl or other such indirect hyperlink, form of obfuscation or redirection), without any “nofollow” command or any other such means of avoiding detection by search engines, and visible even with JavaScript disabled.
What makes it horrible? I never took a course in Racket or any other language. But the documentation and HTDP look very beginner-friendly.
The enforced break is one of the nicer things about old-time music (beyond consuming an album at a time).
It doesn’t significantly change my advice and was actually already factored in my answer. Your obligations are your own. If you can’t afford to change, that answers the question.

It’s not about empathy. My point is that inherently there are no advices to be had on life choices. Just do what you want to do, decide to try or decide you don’t want to. There are no right and wrong general answers here. A bunch of strangers on the internet can’t give someone permission or an excuse.
"My server, my rules" really is very easy.

A lot often is just a simple matter of "if I don't like you, I won't give you access, or retrospectively kick you off". And the other side is that if you, as user don't like that, there are thousands of other instances to choose from. And if none are good enough for you, you can run your own.
> Not having 2FA is going to allow some portion of users to get hacked. When those users do get hacked they will need a way to regain control of the account.

I don't think they do! This would be part of the tradeoff.

Currently, people who cannot use or rely on 2FA are getting locked out of their accounts even if they weren't hacked and knew their password! Isn't that worse?
Really? I'm a self taught programmer, and one the best MOOC courses I took was How to Code taught by Gregor Kiczales.[^1] I believe it's based on HtDP. I thought it was great experience. Although, I did no know a little Python coming in.

[1]: https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-code-simple-data
> but with the reduced (to none existing) exposure to other content that might challenge your views. We owe it to ourselves to honestly test our beliefs and worldview, see if they hold up, and adjust accordingly.

This sounds good but I actually don’t buy it anymore. I consider myself to be a pretty empathetic person, but over time I’ve realized empathy doesn’t solve any problems unless you’re forced to put your money where your mouth is. Would I work together with a far right conservative on a project towards a shared mission. Of course! Do I understand why conservatives feel the way they do? For the most part yes. But being exposed to far right beliefs just makes me more and more crazy, even if I understand the underlying emotion. Even if I empathize with the underlying pain, sometimes empathy makes those feelings worse.

We don’t just disagree on the substance of opinions( pro choice vs pro life) we disagree on the deeper ways of expression, emotion, thought processes and how we assess truth. I understand why someone is pro life but watching the thought processes behind those rants? Helps no one.

Sure I love reading a good relatively moderate economist from either side arguing whatever but /r/conservative comment section and caustic twitter threads?
Right - but I'm not personally trying to orbit Mars and 0% of my net worth is tied up in NASA contractors getting their units right, so that code quality doesn't impact me at all. Also no hopelessly conflicted VCs are underwriting Superbowl ads to get me to store my money with the next Climate Orbiter.
Gladwell's 10k hours rule is disputed.[1] Assuming it were true, for sake of argument, it's not 10,000 hours to get good at something. The difference between bad and good is much, much smaller than the difference between being good and great at something. Josh Kaufman argues that 20 hours could be enough.[2]

All things being equal, make a change. I did this more or less accidentally (applied for programming, got turned into a systems engineer) and it was terrific. Feeling stupid is awful, but it's pretty good for you in the end.

[1] https://www.goodlifeproject.com/podcast/anders-ericsson/1

[2] https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY
These scenarios are the best argument for starving the government of money.

There is no way you’re going to fix this otherwise.

Or you can install someone at the top who cares and is accountable and can be terminated for such gross mismanagement of funds.

But That’s not gonna happen^
> I don't find it paternalistic. The goal is to cut down on support costs by reducing the number of users who get hacked and need assistance regaining access to their accounts, and to force users to have a method of demonstrating they own the account even if they can't log in. That it confers some additional security to users is nice, but not really the end goal.

So we should be mindful of Google's profit margins, instead of homeless people's access to vital services?
> An invitation-only Mastodon network

It's not the network that is invitation-only. Just some servers on that network that are. The network itself is entirely permission-less.
We are talking about Google here, right?
Also, DDE probably earlier than OLE?
A quick Google search finds that (it is claimed anyway) you can buy quite a few items from Amazon or Walmart at shopping.io
There's a huge number of options that aren't "be a disaster capitalist" or "work at a FAANG".

HN et al are keen to "find a pain point" and iterate solutions. The pain point that millions of people are suffering with at the moment (specifically relating to OP's post) is the global economic down-turn. Plenty of opportunity to start a business that might actually help others. Personal budget management, debt consolidation, energy efficiency advice, etc etc etc.... How about trying to make the world a better place while turning a profit? How about "disaster philanthropy"?

OP mentioned ETFs, a pooled investment that typically tracks an index, and specifically "short" ETFs. Shorting is basically gambling that a benchmark will fall in value, i.e. profiting from loss. There's plenty written by economists/politicos about whether this is ethical, whether it actually constitutes "disaster capitalism", and so on. Personally, I find it a shame that a global economic down-turn which will damage millions of lives prompts someone to think how they can use their existing money to make more money for themselves.

I'm not advocating that OP should be negligent about their personal finances. I'm not suggesting that "insulating" themselves (as they quite understandably see it) is a bad plan. I would suggest that these things might be achieved by other means.

My post was simply to say there are choices to be made.
Losing the relationship with my best friend and girlfriend when I was in my twenties. We had been friends ever since we were kids and then dated all through school and college. We both knew marriage was in the cards. But then she left. No one cheated. No broken trust. No drama. She told me she wanted to know what it's like to be alone, which I mean, fair enough after so many years of just us.

Since then, many wonderful, smart, and beautiful women have been in my life, but I have never loved anyone liked I loved her. It's an odd thing to regret, because if I could go back and live it again, I cannot think of anything I would have done differently.

I've made money and lost money. I should have applied myself more academically. I should have spent more time with my Dad. But when I am alone and reflecting on my life, that is the thing I regret the most.
It seems weird that nobody sells Atmos tracks.
Who pays for Twitter ?

Who said anything about the Fediverse having to be free ?

There is absolutely no doubt that should Twitter die, if no single actor can emerge quickly enough, for-profit actors will emerge and they will have all good reasons to be compatible with something that already exists. There will be mega large instances paid by siphoning data and with ads, there will be large instances paid by users/funds/donations, there will be small, community instances. Maybe HN will have its own instance; how much do you pay for HN today ?
Sad sad story.

It was the best social network that existed, and before it shut down it had so gotten so much right that I think no others have matched anywhere near the complete feature sets.
CD-players in cars always blew my mind, especially since I got my first one around the time I got my first CD-ROM drive; the computer CD-ROM would throw an absolute shit fit if the case was brushed by a slight breeze, the car player wouldn't skip even over massive potholes.
Signal received subpoena to produce all data they have on a user and they provided just two data-points: last connection date and account creation date [1][2]. So I'm pretty sure they do not store anything else.

[1] https://signal.org/bigbrother/central-california-grand-jury/

[2] https://signal.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand-jury/
You are very confused, but I am not sure exactly how.
This seems like something the homeless services are best positioned to fix by providing email hosting to their clients. They know their clients are actual humans, not hackers, so can provide the continuity that the giant providers can't.
Wouldn't the answer for most people to "What happens when Twitter shuts down?" be, "Well I'll just move to the next social media site".

I don't necessarily hold that opinion, but I get the impression most folks I know do.
It's not just you. Most, if not all, of what humanity knows is wrong. It's easy to trick ourselves into thinking our constructs reflect reality: we sit at the pinnacle of human understandanding looking forward and our constructs are correct enough that things mostly work.

I've recently taken to adopting an "antiquity mindset." Instead of imagining a piece of information as the pinnacle of knowledge in our current context, I remind myself that in 10 (or 100, or 1000) years, folks are going to look back at these ideas with a red pen marking everything we were mistaken about.

Stay humble in what you "know" - most of what humanity will discover is in the future.
That's my biggest issue with signal.