skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the guy who thought about whether to sell cyanide to people or not, and decided that, yes, Silk Road should sell it ("myself" is Ross):

> myself: cyanide has a bad reputation

> myself: there are plenty of legitimate uses

> inigo: so we're going to allow it?

> myself: its bad for image/PR

> myself: i think we're going to allow it

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/silk-road-trial-...

You can't represent this guy as just selling some drugs, maybe. He knew what he was doing, and documented all of it.
After reading an article[1] last week, I fell into a rabbit hole about interferometry and ending at trying to understand special and general relativity. I spent hours stuck in it.

Reminds me of the meme, “Parents, talk to your kids about interferometry or someone else will.”

1- https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/what-the-image-of-th...
>I'm not sure how I'm going to get through the rest of this semester without zlib.

Telegram and Tor are your friends:

https://t.me/firstlibrarybot

http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6q... (books)

http://articles24t2d47kb6rbabobokvrnymh2smkleosntcu6qxou6sxe... (articles)
Services with actual APIs, like Slack, work pretty seamlessly.

Not all bridges can do this though, its true. Still almost universally a better UX than having 10 messaging apps.
I've seen plenty of porn, but then I'm on a porn-themed instance on purpose. Haven't seen any child porn though. I'm sure there's instances out there that DO have child porn but I can only imagine they get defederated in a real hurry if their policy is to allow child porn.

Mastodon isn't one monolithic thing.
It's small by HN/SV tech company standards where companies grow 2000% in workforce per year just to show growth to investors.
> he's just trying to quash any and all dissent, like the authoritarian he is.

Quashing such dissent is good and perfectly in line with his responsibility as CEO. Office gossip and politics doesn't serve a purpose other than distraction and disruption - especially when conducted in private chats.
“The Silk Road was fine”

-HN
I agree, but how is this different from polls, fidelity programs at department stores, statistics on various topics, etc - all of which have existed for decades?
Don't worry, the code is self-documenting. /s

Self-documenting code (what I take in practice means "no comments"-culture) is something I don't understand how it can work, never seen a good implementation of it. It _can_ be successful in describing the _what_ but is poorly or not at all describing the _why_. Perhaps I'm in the wrong domain for that though.
Dude just getting access / logins you need, client side certs for auth, MFA that’s required by certain systems, SSH keys would take time and be arduous during a regular hire, can you imagine what this would look like trying to show up and have it all in a night for a sev1/p1, when so many (who would manage that access, as others have pointed out in other threads) have been let go or left already? Hell, who even manages IAM or PKI at Twitter at this point?
The use for a dummy disc is odd isn't it.

Dummy boxes for retail stores that keep the real discs behind the counter wouldn't need any disc at all.

Dangerous is probably a really early MiniDisc as it was a recent album at launch in 1992. Perhaps it was created for launch promotions, trade shows etc. where they needed to show physical MiniDiscs and packaging but hadn't actually mastered and manufactured the real deal yet in quantity?
Twittergeddon, the end is also a beginning
This always sounded incredibly scary to me, especially when I was in my early 20s. I guess when you're that age you don't like the idea of things having an end, you are sort of overwhelmed by a feeling of infinity, of never-ending youth.

Now I'm not even 30 but this kind of memento mori doesn't strike me as scary but as liberating. "Here's your precious, finite time in this world, and it's up to you to make it worth it." This is one of those things when knowing you're in charge makes you better, kind of how taking responsibility empowers you inside.

> The most important thing I discovered a few days after turning 65 is that I can't waste any more time doing things I don't want to do.
--- Jep Gambardella, La Grande Bellezza
I still see no problem with it. They're getting value, I'm getting value.
Designing good data structures is very important for code readability too. If you struggle to understand how given data structure is used / what it contains it would be hard to understand the rest of the code.
This! He says OneDrive is buggy, but that’s nothing compared to Nextcloud. He’s in for a big disappointment.

Seafile is a much better choice if you’re only looking for FileSync (without the whole App Store thing).

Another new and already better and faster contender: ownCloud OCIS, which is a complete Go rewrite of ownCloud and is already very fast and efficient and works like a charm for file sharing.
No killing actually occured because Ulbricht was incompetent at procuring contract killing. Ulbricht was scammed, paying $730K for nothing. But he did have the intention of having the victims killed.
My guess is it’s some weird pre-MD format that a weird prototype MD writer from R&D could access.
Does it really matter what "most" think? From the medical point of view, ethanol is a hard drug. It was actually defined as one in an old USSR government standard, but that definition was dropped later (in the 1970s or thereabouts IIRC).
NHS ADHD Specialists Overwhelmed?
I've just spoken to my GP who says that my referall to an adult ADHD specialist could take "up to 4 years".

What the hell is going on and how do I navigate this situation? My QOL is really being stymied by this.

Ive been thinking of switching to a job with private Healthcare, is that any better?
You could also say all the worst people in the world use web technologies and that any search of the web that doesn't explicitly filter out porn is entirely full of porn including horrifying shit.

It's not the job of html or mastodon to make it impossible to use them to distribute content. If anything the biggest problem described is with the Japanese allowing child porn to flourish in their border and their isn't a technical solution to their problems.
You don't need to trust when you can verify. Some exchanges do audits and proof-of-reserves regularly, but majority of them prefer to cheat on their customers.
Stop writing Rust linked list libraries
Can't say I'm surprised, though the only evidence for this appears to come from Peter Todd so how are you sure it's true?

LN should never have been pushed as hard as it was. If they'd launched it and it'd naturally outcompeted regular Bitcoin transactions then fine whatever, but destroying on-chain capacity before LN was even coded was truly crazy.
Alcohol is at the top of the list of objective harm to self and others, right up there with heroin. What "most anyone would consider" is irrelevant to the actual pharmacology of the durg.
Those are almost entirely civil issues so not really.
This is a good lesson about not forgetting that much of life is not binary. Here we have someone who was convicted of doing illegal things. There is also strong evidence that he hired and paid someone to kill five people.

So the question isn't free or don't free him. The question is "how long should he be in jail for?". There's a middle ground here.

Many people, including the OP website just say "free" him. I don't know. That is a binary option which implies total innocence. And I don't think total innocence is the case here.

So the question really needs to be: for how many years should this guy be in prison for. And the answer to me, primarily because he was planning on killing five people is quite a long time. Certainly longer than the ten years or so he's been in there.

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Probably done by one of the microservices they turned off.
This is one of the features of (yes), Meta's sapling VCS.
https://sapling-scm.com/docs/introduction/getting-started/
More details on current Twitter drama on Zoë Schiffer's thread:
https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer
Institutions of Epistemic Vigilance: The Case of the Newspaper Press
I think a lot of people are making the mistake of believing that just because Tik Tok isn't any worse than Facebook or Instagram, then it isn't bad at all.
They're all bad for a number of reasons.
Maybe he had like 230 trips, and of them, a couple was bad.
Yes, you're right. I have been using it for only a week now and I search for common commands like how to reverse tunnel, find a pid etc.

Unless the action that I'm doing is destructive I just run the command (YOLO)
Nope it's the institutions that trample on people and violate their civil rights that should be suffering punishment. The government, medical, and mental health community are highly discriminatory and don't respect freedom of religion.

It's created a perfect storm of death in destruction in the USA. The system needs to be reboot and built to protect citizens, not abusive / incompetent doctors, insurance companies.

Drug addicts are people that deserve to be respected, not spit on and turned away. Even if you aren't a drug addict, you can really quickly have your rights stripped away. Drug use, even repeated, isn't always addiction. Drugs are often a critical component of our health.

I've become increasingly aware of the role the medical industry is playing in exacerbating drug abuse and suicide. So many people are driven away from care and into a suicide/jail or other health problems like morbid obesity.
Jetpack Search: Free for Small Sites and Free Trials for All
This is quite cool, but given the small size a (ba)sh version would suffice.
How We Use Terraform with TypeScript at Radar
Sony did release drives, DGR looks at one in this video for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwtCBj5jEs . It's yet another example in the weird graveyard of replacements for the 1.44MB floppy that didn't catch on.
I wish we though about almost everything probabilistically instead of raging over false binaries.
How has programming given you an insight into mathematics?
> What is 'social debt' and how is it (objectively) measured?

ESG score (Environmental, Social and Governance), it isn't measured objectively but used as a tool for political control and for parading by activists.
There is no dilemma. Rhythm is an utterly fundamental, inseparable part of music. If anything, it's arguably more fundamental than melody (and certainly more so than harmony).

Just try getting a computer to play the notes of some of your favourite tunes with equal - or, better, random - duration and weighting if you want to be convinced of that. Also observe that music without melody can be found everywhere, from rap to Steve Reich to the Kodo Drummers, but to exclude rhythm relegates you to the really out there stuff like 4'33" (complete silence) or music composed of randomly timed or continuously varying sounds.

We have perfectly good terms to distinguish between rhythm and melody such as, you know, "rhythm" and "melody". Your instinctive desire to define "music" so as to somehow exclude rhythm is simply wrong.
>They have shown that the people they nudge are more likely to do a code review. But are they the experts who do the review well?

I think there's assumption that people won't just rubberstamp significant diffs to code they don't own. When submitting a change to another team's project if the reviewers that are suggested aren't actually the right person they are more likely to know the right person who should review it and they can manually add that person.

>The 1.5 percent in reviewed diffs could also be jitter.

Facebook / Meta has tools for measuring the effects of changes and seeing if they are statistically significant. Yes, it could still be jitter but without them giving more data about the experiment we can't tell what the chance of it being due to chance is.

>There doesn't seem to be a review process for the review team

There isn't a review team. Anyone can review a change.
Absolute omnishambles.
Well if 3000 of us share a handful of photos each and 3 perverts compulsively collect 10M pornographic pics you could say that most of the photos in town are offensive porn. It wouldn't be a useful analysis but it would be technically correct.
The Warp terminal^ has something like this built in.

^ https://www.warp.dev/
You missed the point; an if or for is a single token. The problem is with predictable token sequences, and if you write the same for loop (or extremely similar ones) in multiple places then yes, it should be turned into a function.
Meta keeps booting small business owners for being hacked on Facebook
Napster was knowingly criminal. Source: I was there.

During discovery they found emails from Parker saying, "Of course it's illegal. We know it, they know it, we're going to be the biggest thing in the world anyways".
Because Twitter has (had?) skilled engineers. The profitability of a company is likely uncorrelated with the quality of its engineers.
I'd rather say that what works in that huge party simply doesn't necessarily work outside of it, at least not everywhere. The ESC is still crazy successful, at 161 Million viewers this year worldwide.
Main problem with brexit was bubble. Even now, after so many years, you're saying that it's manipulation, simply because you don't personally know people who wanted it to happen. Who exist, I assure you.

> What I mean is – well, take creationists. According to Gallup polls, about 46% of Americans are creationists. Not just in the sense of believing God helped guide evolution. I mean they think evolution is a vile atheist lie and God created humans exactly as they exist right now. That’s half the country.
> And I don’t have a single one of those people in my social circle. It’s not because I’m deliberately avoiding them; I’m pretty live-and-let-live politically, I wouldn’t ostracize someone just for some weird beliefs. And yet, even though I probably know about a hundred fifty people, I am pretty confident that not one of them is creationist. Odds of this happening by chance? 1/2^150 = 1/10^45 = approximately the chance of picking a particular atom if you are randomly selecting among all the atoms on Earth.

source: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

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This being said, guarding my gps history like it's treasure does absolutely zilch to stop political manipulation, when you have stuff like corporate control over mainstream media and PR firms. See NYT's coverage of FTX, for a contemporary example.

Or, well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI
Weird new CEO fires half the company, then demands a _loyalty pledge_, like a common Henry VIII. Sensibly, everyone quits. I mean, the only saboteur there is the leadership.
The article conflates the case in Maryland, which was dismissed after Ulbricht was already convicted and his appeals denied by SCOTUS.

The article pretends this exonerated Ross when it reality the government didn't see a reason to go through another trial when he was already serving multiple life sentences.

The article also does the hand-waivey "it was never shown the messages were authored by Ross."

Those messages were presented into evidence, during the trial. Ross lawyers had no explanation for them.
LOL pretty ironic conversation in these here comments on open standards
this is basically me. stress focuses me
A Curious Case of the Mutable’s
So here's my understanding of what happened, appreciating corrections:

* Twitter was known for liberal corporate politics, most employees liberal

* Purchased by center-right billionaire in the name of freedom of speech (modern liberals against freedom of speech)

* Twitter employees amuse themselves by making billionaire's life difficult

* Billionaire delivers ultimatum, many employees out

* Unclear if sufficient knowledge to maintain systems will survive

It seems like with the benefit of hindsight, the correct play for Elon would've been to avoid major moves at first, let far left employees quit, replace them with new hires excited by working at a Musk company. Then eventually, maybe, deliver an ultimatum once new Musk-enthusiast hires had absorbed enough knowledge to maintain systems.

I think the hard-charging approach Elon took was likely the correct one for Tesla/SpaceX, since employees at those companies mostly knew what they had signed up for, but Twitter was a much different management challenge since the existing workforce has/had an active dislike for Elon.
> where EM wants to take Twitter

I know people joked about him wanting to destroy it, but I'm increasingly of the opinion that that's the only rational explanation for what he's doing. Even Dilbert's PHB seems mild compared to Musk. Either he's a massive idiot, or he wants to destroy Twitter without looking like he intended to destroy it, and so prefers to look like a massive idiot instead.
its better than leaving it out there, also there are compliance laws like GDPR in some jurisdictions (similar in California) where they have to be more careful with data. overall I'd rather ask them to delete it & have them try to jump through hoops to resurrect it.

further as GP mentioned, this should provide some protection from unintentional breaches. push come to shove I am prepared to delete the account and ask my friends to follow me on mastodon, its really not that much of lock-in with twitter.
It sounds like you haven't been around those kinds of drinkers then. The kind that will just spike a beer with vodka shots or do sneaky refills to make sure their friend 'experiences' the desired outcome. Very jesty.
Mostly the latter.

In the rare occasions when I wrote Perl, the language offered all I needed to make my script as boring as Java, along with many temptations to be clever and concise; many people use Perl because it supports write-only "quackery", but it's their choice.
Shouldn't it be Perl on Pails?
Obviously, the article talks of lack of enforcement in Japan regsrding child pornography, or those two large instances would long have gone offline.

This is why we say "there are lies, damn lies and statistics": the article makes use of the numbers for two (admittedly very large and active) instances in comparison with the rest of the fediverse to claim how platform is to blame and the majority of all mastodone users are paedophiles.

It even makes an apt comparison earlier in calling "Facebook the internet", but then makes the same fallacy.

Fediverse is a group of social platforms allowing easy sharing through the use of common protocols. Like the web, or email, or...

You can certainly blame the internet for all the crap it houses.

Just how gun factories are to blame for all gun-related violence.
Sure, but that alone shouldn’t net someone two life sentences. Hiring a hit man to kill 5 people might.
Tiktok is not social media at all. It's an entertainment platform.
Being proud of your bias doesn’t absolve you of its fact corruption effect, that is just silly. If anything it makes you more likely to stretch the truth.
> how do you deliver them all within 3 seconds

Hire The Flash then it's "just" a traveling salesman problem which is left to solve by the reader.
Twitter user gets account back after ban for ‘intimate’ image of meteor
Just a quick reminder: Fred Brooks did much more than write the Mythical Man Month.
I'll check it out. Thanks for sharing
Does it? Are you sure? I've read reports that say twitter has historically run special-case servers for e.g. Justin Bieber's extremely popular feed.
You seeing something when on strong drugs that you can't see when not is not strong evidence for its existence.
It still absolutely rocks if acceleration speed is your most important metric (which I personally find quite compelling), but in pretty much every other aspect they're janky cars compared to similar vehicles in the same price range and even some cheaper ones. Very fun to drive though.
The article examines the internal building of strategies to discriminate truth and non-truth in multi-agent systems, such as newspaper offices.

> We hypothesize that in addition to psychological capacities of epistemic vigilance, which evaluate the epistemic value of communicated information, some social institutions have evolved for the same function. Certain newspapers for instance, implement processes, distributed among several experts and tools, whose function is to curate information

It should be noted that there are parallels with the general problem of Discrimination in the practice of Science: the problem of discrimination, which the article calls "Epistemic Vigilance" in the case of individuals, applies from reading the face of the interlocutor to groups facing malicious agents to the whole theory of the assessment of theories.

A call for awareness about «informavores» which are «endowed only with limited information processing capacities» seems to bring the real-world "satisficer" of Herbert Simon (opposed to the "spheroidal" "homo economicus") in a need for aggregation to build infrastructures for the selection of resources in "overly populated solution spaces", where many of those are suboptimal as an understatement (they are "traps"). It remains in a way an economic problem.
> simile-example

analogue - the thing which is compared

analogy - the act of comparing

in this case you'd use "analogy", as in "this is an excellent analogy ..."

the analogue is the musical characteristics of the drums, in reference to musical styles, moving from style to instruments by, well, analogy.
I think there's more at play because you also just described my Bitcoin wallet from 2010.

It's still just as much junk. There's some weird fetishism that goes with it. Like some kind of hoarding. I'm sure there's a vast body of psychological literature on this I've never heard of
1) Twitter stays up without a hitch: A testament to how relisilient Twitter architecture is even with someone actively trying to fuck it up. Elon clearly does not want Twitter to survive, but thanks to ex-Twitter employees who built such a great resilient system.

2) Twitter goes down in flames: This is what happens when a megalomanian billionaire takes over a complicated distributed scalable system. These billionaires have no idea how complex systems work.

So, no cookie for Elon.
Isn’t the crucial difference with WhatsApp that it doesn’t store the actual message data? I thought that their servers just told what apps to send where. I may be completely off base here.
"Poor" can mean unfortunate as well as lacking in wealth.
If this is no big deal, then there would be no need to dance around it, right?

But I would not conflate sharing a music file with hiring a hit-man.
This will never happen. I don't know why people pretend it might, or why this site shows up on HN every few months as if it's new information.
Way ahead of you - I deleted twitter after interacting with twitter users 2 years ago.
> Tiktok is not social media at all. It's an entertainment platform.

Plenty of social interaction happens in TikTok comments and DMs. If Instagram is social media, so is TikTok.
Reading between the lines, I get the impression the key is deleted from the registry, but not explicitly erased, allowing recovery if the disk space isn’t reused yet.

“Since Zeppelin deletes the registry key store, we will have to extract unallocated cells from the registry to recover the Public Key section. […]

We have had 100% success carving the public key from NTUser.dat for live Zeppelin samples in the field”
>And every stage of processing can be inspected.

Isn't this the case for every node-based ETL tool?
Pretty much every model Tesla has grown on me over time, even the X. At the end of the day people will and should vote with their dollar though. Musk had a pretty big leapfrog on the competition for EVs but now that other makers are rapidly catching up, I am not sure what Tesla's competitive advantage will be in the future(production methods, better batteries maybe...it sure doesn't look like it will be management).
There are not many universally agreed truths amongst us opinionated hackers, but indeed Brooks has bequeathed us one.