skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, propaganda does work and I never said that there was another reason for the Nazis' popularity, though I would claim that most (or at least many) Germans at the time were attracted towards authoritarianism. It would probably have been much more difficult for the Nazis to become that successful in the US, though I could be wrong here given how an economically neglected part of the US population was drawn towards Trump.

My original post was aimed as a response to a post implicitly claiming that it was only a certain minority in Germany that sympathized with the regime. Whether that sympathy was due to successful propaganda or not isn't really the point when refuting that original statement, as is the way the Nazis came to power. From what I've read (and you also seem to agree with this) the majority of Germans supported the nazi regime while in power.

It would be interesting if you had any numbers for the number of displaced or killed German citizens. There were about 500 thousand Jews in Germany before 1933, most of which probably either left Germany or were murdered. People from the political opposition who had deeply seated beliefs that wouldn't have been subject to propaganda and who just continued to live in Germany in fear, were probably the largest percentage of those that didn't support the Nazis, but I don't have good numbers here. I would assume those would constitute at least 25% and at most something like 40% of the population, but those numbers are speculative. It does seem reasonable to assume that a majority of those who voted for the other conservative parties in the last election would have come to support the Nazis and those plus the people who actually voted for the Nazis already constituted a majority of the German population.
There are some people I would have liked to follow in my Twitter feed that left Twitter for Mastodon.

I wonder what the rules/ethics are on reposting on Twitter without someone's permission.
I'm not clear on the details. It was over 30 years ago and I wasn't a salesman. I was busy automating their warehouse systems, but I'd see the brand new Porsches pulling into the car park!

The entire company was structured as a set of internal markets though. Never seen anyone else do this.
Sorry you went through this. Demoralizing. But I would love to hear more about how you went about this:

> I ran a selenium job daily which went and reported all of the drop ship sellers for counterfeit goods.
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I agree, twitter sucks
Works great for me. But how do you get it to parse longer prompts. I managed to get white_bear, but anything more won't work for me. Cool idea. :)
On amazon? No I don’t know.

> right!?!?!

Entirerly uneccesary. Please don’t do that.
I suppose the question is the relationship and history between the parties. If there's an implicit "or else" in the president's demand, things look differently, don't they?

With that kind of power delta, there's always an implied "or else", I believe.
In the past, maybe Windows XP to perhaps Windows 7 era it did — not sure exactly when they stopped using primitives. But not since a long time. It's just (lossy) compressed bitmap streaming nowadays.
I consider myself a Spanish republican, but, giving the context of medieval times, I agree.
Still up
Yes, in some countries.
"Broad public support"

There is absolutely no basis to this claim unless there's an alternative party to compare to
Web Assembly capabilities are on the verge of replacing the entire browser development stack. No more html, css, typescript, or JavaScript.

One of the best outcomes would allow app developers to avoid app stores and still provide native-like user experiences.
Just moved from Ring to Eufy precisely because I preferred everything to be stored locally and not with Amazon and their dubious reputation w.r.t. sharing data.

I suspect that Eufy is thinking the “no cloud” marketing positioning appeals to people merely because they don’t want to pay for a subscription. For customers like me who chose them for privacy reasons this is hugely damaging.
Personally, Notion, however, previously GitBooks (which got very expensive) then Docusaurus (which eventually we outgrew)
Why does it matter what content is shown in China? Many countries have content requirements the US does not. Isn’t the important part what is shown in the US and if it’s manipulated or just responding to user demand like every other platform?
Ubuntu system user accounts use the <1000 range of user ID numbers which you can see looking at /etc/passwd. Unlike this 12345 uid listed above.

On the other hand this username is mentioned in a snap dev forum: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/system-usernames/13386 - but there it says it should be using the 524288-589823 uid range...
Do you mean you want to keep your personal life private, or do you mean you don't want to "be the face of the business" in terms of sales, biz dev, etc?

Anyone running a business or even on the exec team of a business needs to have sales / customer-facing skills. Within a startup / early stage business this is even more the case, as you are representing the entirety of the business.

If you are more concerned about personal / family privacy - user _448 nails it, in that a public persona is generated - or not. There are countless business owners across the country raking in millions each year while remaining completely anonymous.

If you just want to remain "anonymous" in terms of your connection on official documents related to the business, have a lawyer register the company, use their address as your official registration with the state, have them be the recipient of tax / registration correspondence, etc.
Since mastodon is just a collection of privately run instances, there's never gonna be an easy answer.

For ethical consent we might just have to ask the actual content creators instead of arguing about legalese to justify our actions
I agree, if you main Twitter, what is even the point of spamming Fediverse with your posts? Anyone that wants to follow you will do it there.
No, most people are wage labourers who work for capitalists. In the same way that most people in 12th century Britain were serfs who worked for nobles. The difference is that capitalists have managed to convince workers that they somehow occupy equal positions in the socioeconomic hierarchy.
No. Having read a lot of his work, I'm confident it is one person.
So it’s a “desktop” environment without any of the privacy or security of a desktop environment, written in javascript & css (ie cheap and slow), where all the data is stored on a cloud owned by a couple of dudes (they can snoop, sell, and cut off access to your data at any time), all without encryption?

Am I missing something or this a TERRIBLE idea? How does it keep showing up over and over again? Just about any developer could build something like this in under a month, it isn’t some novel idea.
I don’t mean to rain on a parade here I am always happy to see hobby projects, but the fact someone is investing in this and real money is being allocated seems ridiculous. The implications of anyone seriously thinking this is a reasonable cloud desktop environment are scary; people will get duped into being data harvested with no ownership of their data.
I didn't say you cannot publish without a PhD. Rather, it's incredibly difficult to get a position in a good research lab without a PhD due to market forces and competition. Publishing in top venues also requires a certain skillset that's difficult to self-study... and these days it often requires money for running experiments. And if you don't want to get position in a research lab / academia, why would you want to publish at all? Getting those citations for your job is the whole point. Otherwise you can just write blog posts.
> What you say is akin to saying it's amusing to see a chess player beaten in a game because the opponent just took all of his pieces and put them in his pocket, and bribed the judge to look the other way. What exactly is amusing about that?

The US does this all over the world. They will just cut off entire countries if they don't follow their banking rules, for example.
All my sibling commenters are making clear that you're very wrong, but I want to also add that you really need to try one. They're absolutely amazing.
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It's blocked in France. Same was true for z-lib when it still existed. Thankfully Sci-Hub.ru (the main one) was never blocked here (that I know of).
That would kill TeamViewer or similar remote desktop apps.
If we assume that scammers live in the developing world, their time is almost certainly not valued so highly that having a few more responses to copy/paste a unanswered requests for payment to is worth their bulk email losing a single wealthy Westerner that's trusting and unworldly but also a stickler for good grammar (or has a spam filter that knows a lot more about Nigerian princes than they do). I've seen in-person scammers in the developing world continue to waste their own time trying to reel me in even after I've told them I'm familiar with that type of scam and failed to turn up for suggested meetups, and it's not like I was the only white person in Jaipur...

There are often horrible spelling and grammar and composition errors leading to phishing pages which involve zero further input on the spammer's part to collect valuable data too.
The quality of creative work they produce is also not so good. An AI may pass a high school creative writing class, but they would probably do that for computer science too („implement fizz buzz“).

But try to give them the assignment to write stories, poems, lyrics. The result is at best mediocre. No professional artist is threatened by that at all.
The pledged "absolute free speech" - this is a violation of that principle
Apple has a larger page size though.
Haven't looked into the Twitter API in a long time, but this might just be badly implemented. They should have every user user their own API access code and their own rate limiting, not post everything via one account.

At least it sounds as if this is just an issue of generic rate limiting, not specific to Mastodon.

In that sense, this is fake news, as it falsely suggests Twitter has special rules in place to shut out Mastodon.
that may eventually be true about JS but not really for HTML/CSS
Theory Vs reality over there.
absolute free speech does not have rate limits.
Not in the entire EU, I can access it from The Netherlands. I don’t think the EU ever blocks any websites, because thats up to each country individually.
I know zero about buying sex toys but now I have to know. What’s an example of a high end sex toy you were glad to purchase?
The linked... uh, toot thread contains the following post, dated Nov. 4:

>Yeah, it's what I thought, there's a little star on the documentation saying that an app can only create 300 Tweets per user or per app for every 3 hours.
I believe that the influx caused a lot of new power users from twitter, that post a lot, to come over and that's now causing the crossposter to hit the limit

Not sure what is supposedly different a month later.
To be fair if Amazon is showing products with low ratings then it means they are continuing to sell shitty products. You don’t see low ratings because they just get removed.
Yes, they were outplayed at their own game. What they did to HyperVolt (Hyperice), the Chinese merchants did to them. But it's still a useful article because it's eye-opening for the average Amazon shopper.
I'm not sure "hallucination" is the right word.

I've seen it referred to as "stochastic parroting" elsewhere, and that probably gives more insight into what is happening. These large language models are trained to predict the next word for a given input. And they don't have a choice about this; they must predict the next word, even if it means that they have to make something up.

So perhaps the solution would be to include the prediction confidence in the output. E.g. gray out the parts of the text hat are low confidence predictions, like downvoted HN comments.
Using pull requests for proof reading
If you get into it now, you'll probably be on the losing end of a pork cycle [1].

All of the hype is creating overinvestment on the side of "producers" of AI. All that overinvestment will mature at roundabout the same time. When it all hits the market at the same time, they'll have to fiercely compete with each other at the same time as having to deal with "reality" kicking in, i.e. learning the difference between hype and real demand to create real value for real paying customers. There will be massive oversupply.

You'd have to find some way to be short that thing, i.e. to somehow take the other side of that trade.

You want to be on the receiving end of that investment with no exposure to the crash that will follow (if any). For example, if you had an AI background now, you could start an AI school. Your customers would be people taking the hype at face value. You'd take their money now, but when it later turns out that the skill isn't worth in the job market what they thought it would be, you're not exposed to that. ...that's what acting school does for wannabe Hollywood superstars. Running an acting school for wannabe stars is definitely a better business than trying to actually be a star.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_cycle
Y'know, maybe it picked up the habit from Wikipedia editors. After all it's a common source for language models...
Oh it was dead easy. I just wrote something in selenium python which ran the search daily and went through each item, checked the seller was China based, checked for a missing keyword in the text body and opened the report item form and filled it in!

Took me about an hour to write and an hour to futz with chrome webdriver.

This was fuelled by rage and a can of red bull. A dangerous combination for revenge.
Thanks for sharing. I've fed davinci3 your prompt with temperature 0.1 and 0.9 and both were lying pieces of junk. The only difference was that the lowest temperature made up refs that were more "plausible"/"realistic" (e.g. it'd spit out the name of authors which have written about the field).
This is disgusting. As a small biz owner it pains me to see someone go bankrupt because Amazon can't be bothered to enforce their own rules. This literally forces good actors to commit crimes simply to have a chance at competing. Insanely despicable.
Was that when they went from 1 user to 2?
Elon made one mistake: he openly declared support for the Republican party. Now "good people" want to cancel him. It's sad.

It's my first remark on this subject. I'm not even a Republican nor have a Twitter account - but I'm really considering creating one now. I know that I will be downvoted but I don't care. It just got impossible to ignore: Sam Bankman-Fried has better press than him.
Every time I get those notifications now, I have to remember to close down the application, and go run `snap refresh`. There's literally no other way to make sure the update won't quit my application other than hope it's not running when the update will be applied in 2 weeks.

A better—although arguably still horrible—notification would be to tell you when the application is actually scheduled to be updated so you know when to have it closed. Telling you that you need to have it closed at an indeterminate time 2 weeks from now or else fear "disruption" is clearly not good enough.

Who thought this was an acceptable process for a user to follow and not an utter dealbreaker? Should we still call this snap growing pains?

Updates should always only be applied when the application is starting. If there's a new update, a notification would just tell me to restart the application to have the update applied.
Not really “on the verge” considering how long it took to migrate most projects from Python2 to Python3. I mean, people won’t just drop existing projects, and adoption will be awfully slow.
Or it could just need maintenance but the team that did that was fired
> They have a lot of money.

They will also pay $10,000 for a toilet seat. If you maintain the same markup the $110 a month sub will be $110,000 for the government
You're free to jailbreak
So it’s politely observing that HN doesn’t care about the Global South.
People keep conflating the 1st Amendment with the ideal of free speech. It doesn’t make it moral to suppress people’s speech because you’re legally not on the hook for it.
This was also my thinking looking at the site. No way I was going to allow access to my microphone or camera.

the truth is that in order to use this site, you need a working computer with a desktop anyway. So the only value would be is that you can access your stuff from anywhere on any computer.

It’s just security nightmares all the way down.
>I still find errors in FAT32 implementation

I wonder if this results in issues when you plug a card into Windows, which then 'fix' the incorrect FAT32 data structures on the disk, which again will be corrupted by the camera in new and interesting ways.
Kraken pays over $360k to settle violations of sanctions against Iran
Yeah as a mastodon user I actually have the terms 'twitter' and 'RT' filtered, so they don't clog up my timeline. When people want talk about twitter they mostly use the term "birdsite" anyway so that still shows up.
One of the Navy Network Information Center (NNIC)'s top edits is the Subic rape case.[0] Predictably and, unfortunately, it's essentially all edits trying to play down the case or cast doubt

I've been a Wikipedia editor for a few years now (mostly botany-related pages) and I've been quite the pessimist about the platform for almost as long. But browsing this website has gotten me really demoralized to be honest. Many of these edits seem like individual contributors, but some of these look downright coordinated

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic_rape_case
Getting the tax stamp takes several months, unfortunately.

And you need a new stamp if you want to transfer it to another person.
How does that help anything? That's not objective at all. There are white Africans (Elon Musk) and Europeans who can pass for northern Africans. You can also find siblings of which one could pass as black and the other as white.

The idea you can easily divide people in different race groups is literally the definition of racism. It doesn't work and we shouldn't be doing it.
Generating a timelapse of myself from age 0 to 100 y/o using Stable Diffusion
SWE ~20 years, curious I have spend like 4 days to learn and do some hacking around that Stable Diffusion hype :) Well, there are three types of "boring" work I discovered there:

- researchers - math and stuff, optimizing training, inference, reading tons of research papers, writing papers, implementing low level algos, a lot of trial and error work - that is like 0.0001% of the entire community,

- integrators - building workflow front-ends, wrappers, PS plugins, optimizing the stack, doing some Dreambooth training, tinkering with high-level Python, 0.1% guys,

- users - running one-click tools or just clicking thru some AI-art generator webapp, participating in reddit d* size contest, spreading the news, writing sensational articles for mass audience, hype preachers on YT, designers augmenting Photoshop skills, the best are trying to monetize the tutorials and AI-artwork, 99%.

All that reminds me a bit of "blockchain" career hype cycle which is now fading. For now it is all "vitamins" (vs painkiller).

I will definitely play with more of it on the side. But for now I am back to my boring and stable devops/backend web job, I see a lot of K8s pains to kill :)
I would answer:"I don't know" for a question like this. I wouldn't start making up facts.
I'm also using a brain...
Government gives £11M backing to hydrogen Toyota Hilux project
It's not "the same way everyone else does". We use the Twitter web UI's Report button. We don't have contacts in Twitter's Orwellian "trust and safety'"division. I can't tell if this is bad faith or ignorance.

Alex Berenson was unsuspended after he sued Twitter (unbannings were unprecedented, as this was before Musk's takeover), after he proved that Biden staffers had demanded his suspension. Government employees and legislators are not legally allowed to pressure companies to remove speech, as the Supreme Court ruled that it goes against the 1st Amendment.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1597663153739169794
> I just don't get the fascination with this idea

answered by

> this is well made and a fun project to develop
Obviously performing better than the average SAT (human) result.
There's aspects of personality I think. Let's use D&D terminology to make two caricatures.

* Wizards need to prepare their spells before they can be cast. They want upfront planning and design. They rely on rules and systematization. They prefer top-down design, breaking a large problem into smaller and simpler ones.

* Sorcerers cast spells at will. They're more volatile, but their flexibility is greater. They prefer to inundate themselves in the problem and experiment their way forward and to sort of mold the code like clay until it does what it should. They prefer bottom-up design, starting by constructing small pieces and moving on to growing a large solution organically.

Wizard programmers will think sorcerers are sloppy, undisciplined and out of control.

Sorcerer programmers will think wizards are overbearing bureaucrats stifling progress with unnecessary rules and plans.

I don't think there's a clear cut best approach here. I've known developers who were extremely productive in the long term with both approaches. It is probably fairly domain dependent. Wizardry is significantly more reliable when the domain is well understood, sorcery has a definite upper hand in a poorly understood domain.

I think the strongest programmer is capable of both styles. They're very different disciplines though, so this is hard. Wizardry requires capacity for patience and discipline, while sorcery requires a strong intuition for design and faith that the design will come together despite not knowing how in the moment.
For Yale: https://admissions.yale.edu/affordability-details

So for example: for incomes in the $65-100k range, the median net cost is $5,701 with 99% receiving aid.
Hallucination is commonly used in ML parlance and gets the point across without needing to know what "stochastic" means.
You guys pay enough for healthcare already to have both, you just need to organize it better (you could look to the rest of the world for some inspiration).
Hey, here is a frog that can talk! Ask it anything!

- Human: Ok frog, how much is 1 + 1?

- Frog: The answer to your question is 3.

- Human: Meh, wrong answer. Not impressed ..
The same thing happens to you if you design original products. We designed a variety of products, had them manufactured and shipped to the US, and fulfilled them ourselves. The fine counterfeiters our manufacturers illegally sold the designs to have made literal millions selling our designs on Amazon and we have moved on.
Reads like a general rate limit of 100 tweets / hour from apis.

Would have been "limiting Mastodon", as the title claims, had this limit been applied specifically for their API calls, while others enjoy limitless.
The tweets requested to be taken down, highlighted in the thread, were tweets requested for review as violating Twitter's terms of service.

Which they did, because they were naked pictures of Hunter Biden, being distributed without his consent.[1] They would also be illegal to distribute under revenge porn laws but were being distributed by Chinese-originating accounts.

[1] https://twitter.com/jason_paladino/status/159883024902577356...
I am surprised how many people goof off at work writing wikipedia pages about their favorite TV shows.

Especially you, Canadians... lol: http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/organization/46a20a0820d609f90314e...
China is the land of cheap counterfeits and it started before Amazon existed.