skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's changed since the deplatforming last year.

There's a new flood of people who don't mind mixing violence with their politics, hate groups, and a few fascinating libraries that are vast archives of incendiary frauds, quacks and malicious propagandists of the past.

Many countries free speech rules are more restrictive than the United States when it comes to hate speech and calls for violence and insurrection.

I've been meaning to scrape those archives and email academic historians with a Dropbox link. Historical hateful screeds and conspiratorial fabrications are actually hard to come by (think of say, political opportunists trying to capitalize on the 1932 Bonus March with self serving conspiracies).

It's a long list of mostly self-published pamphlets, newsletters and books. When these mountebanks pass on since they were never actually affiliated with legitimate institutions, their papers don't get cared for.

This also goes back to the search problem. GBY explicitly excludes the most virulent and harmful of this material. Fine. Agreed. Totally legitimate. But there's no way to say "I'm interested in folklore and sociology, I know it's all fiction".

People take action, sometimes murderous, based on these fraudsters. For the purpose of crafting policy, laws, and documenting manipulation techniques for media literacy, there should be a quarantined place where their lies go instead of being intentionally scrubbed after it manifests some awful tragedy. Maybe that would be a good candidate for a separate search tool.

There's some decent ML work with NLP there since (1) many things are anti-semitic dog-whistles (such as Alex Jones using the term Globalist) and would probably cluster really nicely with the quiet part using seq2seq, word2vec and might even be achievable unsupervised, and (2) many of them are just crude copy/paste amalgamations from older hate sheets, like the protocols, secret world government by spiridovich or waters flowing eastward by fry; oftentimes with merely the names and events updated to be more contemporary while usually throwing a different oppressed group under the bus such as immigrants or trans people. In the results you could display this: "See side by side comparison with this literature from the British Union of Fascists" where you clearly demonstrate some "truth about gays" is just a crude find and replace of say "truth about jews" from 1935.

It might also be helpful to assuage the victims who are falling into these libelous traps by clearly demonstrating how obvious the fakery is. Of course some seem to lack the cognitive wherewithal regardless of the clarity of the evidence but we might as well give it a go.
>PayPal isn't a bank, folks. If you treat PayPal like a bank, you will have a bad time.

You are saying the ECB should be having a bad time. Fair.

PayPal is a licensed bank in Europe [1]

[1] https://thebanks.eu/banks/16281/bank_identifiers

Edit: changed the link because it was a bit misleading
Social media tends to create the kind of person who tends to destroy the kind of place where peace is found. We deserve what's coming to us.
Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, IPO - looks like there is plenty of recuitment happening.
Curious, what would you imagine it being like both daily and over extend period of time?
Forums like this one are made up of a large number of temporarily embarrassed tech billionaires. It's no surprise that they think Musk's behavior is okay. They fantasize about doing the same to their own employees one day.
The Soviets enabled the Third Reich by providing facilities to build and train an air force sand a tank corps when Germany was treaty bound not to have one.

Additionally, they were happy to partition Poland following the Nazi invasion.

Stalin was a criminal and reaped what he sowed.
The historical consensus is that Germany had no way of ending the war on their own terms even without the aid.
The impacts of Lend-Lease materialized mostly after 1942/Stalingrad.

You might want to look into the history of Radio Free Europe and the sources they link to.
Do you have any evidence
I mean that was the cost of taking control of Twitter. Success or failure are yet to be seen. Their current revenue is more than enough to service the debt, but really all this restructuring is about making the company leaner and more competitive. If the valuation goes up then the debt quickly becomes a non-issue.
Elon needs Eric one hell of a lot more than Eric needs Elon. Eric will have a new job within days. Elon will have a developer with six years deep knowledge and experience with Twitter code… in about six years.
Some articles about that are on the Debian mobile wiki page:

https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile

Using a chroot will always be the easiest way to do this though.

https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid
hm. in Hungary there's a trial period, 6 months (used to be 3), and both parties can terminate the employment without cause immediately during this
Yep, even Fed Chair Bernanke was lauding him:

"I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again."

https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2002/20021...
Set Proof [pdf]
"Eli Lilly" did effectively join Mastodon, in 2018, except that it was Wil Wheaton, and ... things went poorly.

Wil joined what was at the time my own home instance, following something of a flameout on Twitter, itself caused by 1) people harassing him there, 2) Wil employing a shared, user-generated blocklist which 3) by both its own size and celeb-driven adoption rendered many other Twitter accounts effectively blocked --- not by Twitter, but as a result of individual adoptions of that blocklist. How legitimate inclusions were, and/or how feasible it was to get off the blocklist, I really can't say. That said, Wil arrived on Mastodon with both a large fan and foe base.

Harassment of Wil began on Mastodon.

<https://www.theglobaldispatch.com/mastadon-shuts-down-wil-wh...>

The admin/moderator was ... less than transparent or capable, and responded to a case of "this profile is causing me problems" by banning that profile rather than seeking out the root cause of the griefers who'd in fact triggered the problem.

<https://mastodon.cloud/@wilw/100635779449174251>

Ultimate, Wil left Mastodon as well, writing his own account of the matter:

<https://wilwheaton.net/2018/08/the-world-is-a-terrible-place...>

Mastodon's evolved its own tools and practices (both technically and as a community, including a community of admins), and should perform better in future, though much engineering progress emerges through pain, suffering, or worse.

Wil is, in the world of celebrity, fairly modest stakes. I've heard tales of Twitter that there was a point where it could only handle a tweet from one major celeb (e.g., Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, or one of the 'dashians) at a time, and effectively had servers dedicated to sufficiently large accounts. Celebrities proved an interesting stress-testing mechanism.

Mastodon ... has not yet experienced this, and I've my concerns with how well it might handle such scaling, or what specific elements of scaling (users, instances, posts, interactions, ...) will prove most problematic. I've certainly seen and heard of numerous cases of growing pains over the past few weeks, though nothing insurmountable.

But:

1. Celebs and brands are profile types that should be considered.

2. Mastodon's had some experience and performed poorly, both technically and culturally.

3. Adding very-high-profile profiles to the network needs some consideration. It's quite likely that there will be poorly-thought-through adoptions in future, however.
> What are crypto exchanges fundamentally doing differently that they are suddenly losing money?

Fractional reserve banking. Exchanges now offer traditional banking services such as savings accounts and loans.

They are unregulated banks with none of the insurance and government protections to bail them out. They cannot resist the temptation to gamble with the vast amounts of money they are sitting on. Only a matter of time before they lose it all and people can't withdraw their cryptocurrencies because there's no money in the reserves.
Recommend reading Daemon and Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez. It describes a reasonably plausible transition to a society managed by an impartial AI.
https://www.newsweek.com/stabbed-eye-fencing-sword-accident-...

More recent incident
Our IBM was the ONLY thing that didn't get vaporized when we got ransomwared. Tens of linux boxes, MS servers, 3rd party who knows what the f they are, all gone. Poof.
Oh man, memories and flashbacks...
Soviet-Afghan War.
There are some people doing that, it takes a ton of work and the device will probably be dead by the time you are finished. Some links in the articles section here:

https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile
I was going to use that quote, but you beat me to it.

The only thing I'd add to this article and the comments is: the Germans failed to realize that when they'd gone hundreds of miles into Russia over bad roads, with hostiles in their rear, they'd have a real serious problem supplying all those troops. The Russians call those "generals" of theirs General Distance (along with General Mud and General Winter).
Some highways are measured in the thousands of miles. Others are measured in feet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_State_Road_520
How is taking inactivity fees not like a bank? :)
The data is already in the wild but you do not want to spread it even more, so you do not just publish it. But you still want to enable people to find out if they are in the data set, so you offer a website to check for their data.

You could just keep the data on your server in plain text, even if it would get hacked, there would be no real additional damage as the data is already in the wild. There might however be legal reasons why you can not do this.

So as an exercise in how to handle such data properly or in order to comply with the law, you want a secure solution, i.e. assuming the data is not already in the wild, how do you implement this in a way that getting your server hacked does not leak the data?

The idea was then to just hash everything with SHA-256, but this does not work because SHA-256 is fast and the search space relatively small, so the hashes can be more or less easily reversed. The next better option would be to hash the data with something slow like bcrypt, that would make reversing the hashes orders of magnitude slower with a well chosen work factor.

haveibeenpwned.com also had an article discussing the decisions they made in quite some detail.
3blue1brown's Bitcoin video helped me a lot in understanding bitcoin.
Stacked Area Graphs Are Not Your Friend
Still, most of the audience isn't going to have any first-hand familiarity with such a thing.
As long as he gets the wave of approvers oohing and aahing at each of his tweets, he doesn't care about anything or anyone else. Where have I seen this behavior before? Certain egomaniacs really get addicted to their Twitter fanboys.
This. The flow of information through a system explicitly illustrates the implicit rules of a system. Like water running down a mountain. When reading the landscape, follow the keyline.
try nitter.it
> so much as it's lack of bulldozers [to, e.g., build airfields]

The Japanese didn't need bulldozers. They had conscripted local labor and their planes could take off and land on dirt strips.
The sad thing is that Musk and his disciples think this makes him look hardcore. Is Musk maybe the most easily-trolled person on Twitter? Parag Agarwal trolled him out of 44 billion dollars.
Let’s not be too pedantic, it was just an analogy, not a bad one, nor perfect but none are.

As a Clojurist I think it behooves us not to put on gatekeeping airs (because we’re up against those too).
Ask HN: Has Mastodon blown its big chance?
Twitter users are talking about mastodon, asking questions, as far as I can tell in many cases giving up.

Do you think has blown its big chance?

If Mastodon is a fit to the job, it would have exploded with popularity.
> With proper regulation, you have hotels and formal tourist stay locations which extract taxes that can be used to help ensure the local workers get a decent life while catering to the visitors. But without proper regulation or planning, the locals get priced out of their own towns.

It's actually mostly the opposite. More money coming into a town tends to lift all boats - unless, like many contemporary American towns, building more homes in town is made de facto illegal through regulations and planning.

> Airbnb made it worse, because not only is there the traditional gentrification but now also people who own apartments can seek higher rents from tourists than with locals.

Equally those higher rents are possible because you're making tourism possible for people who probably couldn't afford to travel otherwise. The people staying in (regular apartment) Airbnbs tend to be lower-middle-class at best, and I don't think we should automatically care more about locals than tourists just because they happened to be born somewhere nice.
Mastodon still has like four users compared to any of the major social networks. Fix it now even if it takes a breaking change before it hurts more later, or do better with whatever thing actually does eventually rival the user count of Facebook or email.

> The protocol, devised in the 1970s, can't be changed now, and we can't get everyone to upgrade to a new protocol.

This is untrue. There is a clear path to adding things like DKIM or SPF. First you add support to the major servers and publish a spec, then you give everyone else a reasonable amount of time to implement it, then you turn it on. This breaks anyone who hasn't implemented it yet, but by then that's only people who suck, and anyway so does dumping all of the mail they send to spam with nothing they can do about it.

The problem with email is that the major providers don't want to do more things like that (e.g. implement hashcash or similar), because it's better for them for the smaller providers to be destroyed than to design a protocol improvement that facilitates their existence.

Which is why it's better for it to be there from the start. But the best time to do it was yesterday and the second best time is today.
> It's worth noting that most of the recorded losses of tanks by the Germans were in battles against T-34s.

Russia had to first survive long enough to get things turned around so they could take the offensive.

On the T-34s:

> To the Deputy People's Commissar of Medium Machinebuilding, comrade Goreglyad
8a Ryazanskaya St.

> In response to your letter #16/2291 on March 18th, 1941

> The GABTU considers it necessary to deliver the V-2-34 engine together with the main clutch for the following reasons:

> The warranty period of the main clutch is seldom higher than the lifespan of the engine: the engine's guaranteed lifespan is 150 hours, the tank travels 2000-2250 km in this time. The existing main clutch needs replacing after this time.

> The existing design of the main clutch on factory #183 T-34 tanks requires the following changes to be compatible with diesel engines received from factory #75:

[…]

* https://www.tankarchives.ca/2020/12/weakest-link.html

* https://twitter.com/Tank_Archives/status/1344342553911582722 (see thread on Kursk)

When the average lifespan in battle was ~14 hours, the stated 150 hours sounds pretty good.
This is what likely happened!! These group of inexperienced guys thought they had found a better way to market make, they even had a blog explaining their better strategy.
But 5 minutes of reading it immediately becomes obvious that it can easily be exploited and leave alameda holding the bags.

You can't be the exchange, the person loaning out huge margins, and the person backing up the entire system, all in one. Too many conflicts of interests, that leads to making suboptimal decisions. One part of you has to keep the process propped up, so that the value of margin loans you gave out don't fall, which means eating up a lot of lot of losses from the people you gave margin loans too. And you can't stop eating up the losses, or the whole thing collapses.

This was always going to fail. The only play they had was to keep the crypto hype going so that something other than them will drive the prices up and they can exit all the losses they took on from market making quietly. And that was the play they were going for. Hence all the SBP hype, the superbowl ads, the naming of sports arena. Excess crypto hype was their only play. And that's all they did the last few months. Find ways to get publicity for crypto, SBF etc
>In 2008, the bailouts were for the banks and institutions. They did nothing for the people who had already been screwed.

I agree with most of you sentiment, but differ in that I think that government is the broken tool which funnels funds up tow a small minority (eg massive financial institutions).

If institutions and individuals get to freely distribute the costs of their mistakes, there is a reduced incentive to make smart choices.

>What is the value of this freedom when all the bets are placed with "institutions" which will rob (/cheat) the investor?

I think that institutions maintain monopoly power largely due to the help of the government.

>Any rock you turn over, you will see preference given to people of power or wealth. The accredited financial institutions have been publicly shown to favor insiders or themselves, for example. Retail investors would be advised to invest in things that the institutions knew were bad by the firms they trusted in and paid for advice to.

>There is virtually no fairness or mathema†ical equality afforded to everyone in the current systems of government. To believe otherwise is fantasy. If one is in the right group, they have a marked advantage. For the rest, they are almost assured to get much lower results from their efforts.

My point exactly. The government has an ultimate monopoly of power in the US and is a corrupt steward of that power.
Seems like something Alotta Fagina would post.
The market for RAM and NAND is very competitive, with costs rapidly declining over time. 32GB of DDR4 is just $70, and you can get slower 2TB NVMe drives for ~$120. These are a steal IMO.

RAM/SSD upgrades for pre-built computers are expensive, but that's to be expected. It's used for market segmentation.

If you want cost effective upgrades, buy the base model of an upgradable machine and upgrade it yourself. For a desktop you can even start from scratch.

You'll have to skip modern Macs, though.
The article doesn't address Gosplan and the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union.
Who sells everything instantly when moving to a new job? What if it won't work out?

I think for a few months the company should subsidize renting a place, so new hires who move are not forced to liquidate everything back home. (Relocation packages are a thing after all.)
I also have yet to find an innovation in robotic arms that have any impact on my life. /s

You're speaking from a state of privilege and good luck, because your banking system works for you. People also live in countries where the banking system sucks and receiving remittances in incredibly expensive.
Years ago I found a solution to this problem I was comfortable with. I opened a separate (no fees) bank account just for linking to PayPal. I keep almost zero balance in that account except when I am in the process of moving money into and out of PayPal.
Every sufficiently wealthy and famous person hires a publicity team to manage their public image. The service includes paying interns to go around social media praising and/or defending their client. Some people will do anything for a paycheque, including debasing themselves for an obnoxious billionaire.
Assuming that the people in charge are able to do basic analysis is pretty far fetched.
So I suppose they're pulling Twitter ad spend for other reasons? I guess this whole fiasco is still damaging to their brand.
British intelligence, Bletchley Park aside, was amazingly ham-handed and ineffective, by accounts of those involved. (See Leo Marks, "Between Silk and Cyanide".)

The US, incidentally, was able to decrypt Enigma traffic independently of Bletchley using ordinary cryptanalysis.
I am not arguing there is no causal effect, I am arguing that it is not a externality.
They don't necessarily mean the same thing to everyone. A blank ballot still endorses the system, I think
Yah, given my experience, you buy the mainframe for one of the native zos/etc flavors, and then the IBM sales people basically throw in the IFL's which will never get used for the zos/etc workloads effectively for such a nominal price, they might as well be free.

Then you have half a mainframe of capacity lying about, and why not run some linux workloads on it.

I find it _really_ hard to believe that outside of a few really narrow niches anyone is really buying mainframes to run linux workloads. Its just not cost effective.

PS: and then of course IBM gets to add it to their total "sold capacity" for the quarter to make it look like the business is growing. So they _want_ you to use all that idle hardware.
As Pay TV Subscribers Decline Faster, Pressure Builds for Streaming Profits
That’s not how constructive dismissal works. If your company decides they want to soft-layoff, they can’t just make it miserable and hope people quit. They’ll be sued, and courts will find the departures equivalent to a layoff if enough people leave.
Looks smooth to me on an iPhone. Nice site, does the job.
> The biggest problem with Bitcoin, one man’s opinion, is that the value of money is really tied to the governments and economies that back it

Where did I say anything about gov being involved in FTX failure?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang

Any position like this would essentially be drawn if both sides could skip their move
Elon Musk is a spoiled manchild who got in over his head with his accidental purchase of twitter.

Twitter is a hugely bloated company with an absolute shite of a website that renders too slowly to be acceptable on my 1Gbps fibre optic internet.

I believe both of these statements to be true. Thus I'm taking no sides here and I must say I took a dislike to both Musk and the person he just fired after reading a few of their public exchanges.
Is there any similar project for the galaxy s9/s10 north american versions with locked bootloaders? It's infuriating Samsung gets away with this.
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Webrings are very much alive, see for yourself:

https://webring.xxiivv.com/

https://fediring.net

https://getimiskon.neocities.org/gr/lainring.html
Of course not. But it's fun watching them have a tantrum when they run out of lies and I've learnt a lot of cool new things from looking up the lies.

It also helps distribute reality in contrast to the usual talking points. Most people don't know that nuclear is very limited in scale and actually and quite poor from a land use and energy perspective if it were to be expanded, or that the overwhelming majority of radiation comes from sourcing fuel.

I've seen a few bystanders go 'oh shit, you only get 100-500mW per kg of mining?' Or 'wait, none of the breeders have actually done the thing?'
The Imperial Japanese Navy thought otherwise, given that they commissioned Komatsu to build a whole bunch:

* https://www.kenkenkikki.jp/museum/bulldozer/e_bull1930-04.ht...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komatsu_Limited