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Post by Helloworldboy »

kahrl wrote: post #181
mainstreemm wrote: post #49

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Under the new Administration Twitter will assuredly ban anyone who doesn't appropriately mouth the narrative. The bans are already picking up steam, and have been since the election. Trump: gone. Khamenei? Still tweeting about how America is the devil and the Holocaust wasn't real. Where's the explainer under this tweet [0] telling me that this information is disputed wrongthink? 0 https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/sta…

Please check the url at the top of your browser. If it begins with "news.ycombinator.com" you're in the wrong place. Try posting here instead: https://parler.com/

Go fuck yourself

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Post by Helloworldboy »

f430 wrote: post #157

I wish there was a decentralized scalable version of Twitter, Facebook, Youtube. It would run off our mobile devices and PC sort of like bitorrent. I am aware of webtorrent (web based torrenting p2p) for videos and such but still nothing in production. IMHO, the next person that comes up with a highly scalable, decentralized, widely distributed mesh network of devices to securely transfer files between peers will not…

It would immediately be deleted by apple and google for going against the narrative and threatening existing social media financially.

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Post by vbezhenar »

snvzz wrote: post #219
wongarsu wrote: post #162

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55 TB fits comfortably on 4 16TB HDDs. You can fit around 8 drives in a single tabletop NAS before you have to go either to multiple enclosures or rack mounting. Using that as a metric I would call anything below 100TB smallish. Storage is indeed progressing a lot.

There's progress indeed, but 4x 16TB isn't cutting it. You'd need extra disks for redundancy, extra space for filesystem overhead (including data and metadata checksums), and a sizable amount of ECC memory.

You don't strictly need ECC memory for that specific task. Torrents have checksums for every file chunk, so even if some bit corrupted because of RAM, it's enough to re-check the files and re-download corrupted pieces if needed.

That said, complete re-check of 64 TB at 250 MB/s would take at least 71 hour. So ECC RAM definitely won't hurt.

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Post by vbezhenar »

agumonkey wrote: post #203
generalizations wrote: post #168

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That much storage would still cost somewhere around $1500-$2000. Impressively low, but still in the range of a very dedicated hobbyist.

Clearly .. tons of people spend more than that on gears of way less value (think GPUs for leisure purposes only). Have a tiny online donation setup and you could get full sponsorship or half easily.

I think that kind of donation exposure would open you to some legal risks. Now you're some kind of visible commercial entity, not just some random IP address in the tracker response.

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Post by rolandog »

mncharity wrote: post #149
joelthelion wrote: post #7

At some point we need to stop the hypocrisy, recognize that SciHub is too valuable to the community to be shut down, and fix laws so that it becomes either legal or useless. That's no easy task, but it's much better than having scientists from all over the world rely on it while simultaneously pretending they are dangerous criminals.

> scientists Not only scientists need sci-hub. Educators need sci-hub. People writing education content. Or trying to understand existing content, steeped in misconceptions. Students. A science-literate public. When I hobby work on OER science education content, or even when I answer a "ask a science/history/whatever question" on reddit, I use google scholar, open access. and sci-hub . And "I'd really like to see pap…

Indeed. I was frustrated to learn that a 1871 paper [0], referenced previously on a HN thread [1], wasn't freely available online.

[0]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1478644710864060...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372871

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Post by gamacodre »

nemo1618 wrote: post #178
eloff wrote: post #86

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Thank you for sharing an inspiring story. When my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer my dad poured over literally hundreds of medical papers to determine the best course of action. I believe he saved her life. Scihub was instrumental in that. I helped a little in checking and challenging his conclusions. I think it's unlikely she would have had as good an outcome if we'd just listened to the doctors. My conclusion…

Is it possible to find, say, a private doctor that is able to give more personal care than a GP at a typical hospital? Whenever I talk to a doctor about my symptoms it feels like they're just doing triage. I can't really blame them for that, but I would happily pay $$$ for an experienced professional who truly cared about my health. I have no idea if such a thing exists though (outside the sphere of the very wealthy,…

I pay $150/mo to be a patient of a local "concierge" doctor in Sacramento. This is a D.O. that previously had a regular insurance-based practice. Appointments are free, usually on time, and can run 20-30 minutes. Labs and prescriptions can still go through my regular health insurance.

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Post by cowpig »

joelthelion wrote: post #7

At some point we need to stop the hypocrisy, recognize that SciHub is too valuable to the community to be shut down, and fix laws so that it becomes either legal or useless. That's no easy task, but it's much better than having scientists from all over the world rely on it while simultaneously pretending they are dangerous criminals.

An anecdote in support of this:

My fiancee is a doctor in charge of a covid ward at our hospital, and at one point this year I heard about some studies re:vitamin D on radiolab and told her about it. She found it interesting, but told me she didn't have access to one of the studies she wanted to read.

I introduced her to sci-hub and she was blown away. She uses it fairly frequently now.

The idea that government-funded health studies are inaccessible to doctors during a pandemic is patently absurd.

Sci-hub does a lot of good.

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #217
semi-extrinsic wrote: post #199

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You don't think it makes sense that on the page for a paper, you can click an authors name and see their other papers? Or that you can see the revision history of a paper? Because both of those are supported by e.g. arXiv and not by Sci-Hub. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate Sci-Hub. But if it was legal to operate, do you think it would be exactly the same as it is now, and that it would have no popular competitors/al…

Revision history is very nice, but arXiv has only a subset of papers. There are other easy ways to go from an author's name to the list of their publications; often copying and pasting the name into Google is enough. My point is that a search interface is usually more convenient. And as you noted, "We have ArXiv, BioRxiv and MedRxiv (...)" - that's already too many places to click through, particularly if all you hav…

> I mean, it's manageable when there are three, but it'll become a huge burden when there's 20.

There are more than 20 already (more like 2000) when you start counting national/university-level preprint servers. As I said, Google Scholar already indexes all of these sites, with many nice features.

Personally I'm very fonf of exploring the two "citation light cones" emerging from one articles - those cited by the article (past) and those citing the article (future).

> Notice the modern media consumption patterns. The publisher doesn't matter. Only individual articles do. People land at articles through Google queries and links shared on social media. I believe scientific papers show the same pattern to a large degree.

I think you're absolutely correct about this. But what I'm proposing (many repositories, indexed by search engines, together giving complete coverage) is exactly like that. A single archive, Sci-Hub style, is more like what Google is trying to do with AMP.

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Post by f430 »

j-james wrote: post #190
luto wrote: post #161

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twitter: https://joinmastodon.org/ youtube: https://joinpeertube.org/ The fediverse checks many of the boxes you mentioned. While I personally enjoy using it, it still lacks usability for many people, I think.

facebook: https://pleroma.social/ instagram: https://pixelfed.org/ blogger: https://write.as/ soundcloud: https://funkwhale.audio/ At the end of the day, though, the Fediverse is just like any other social network - most people join because their friends or people they know have.

What if you could use the existing Facebook, Youtube, Instagram clients and seamlessly be connected to both the "centralized content from FANG" and "decentralized content from FEDIVERSE" ?

If your content gets censored it would be archived on the fallback fediverse, therefore neutralizing their ban hammer?

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Post by teddyh »

hagibborim wrote: post #79
mncharity wrote: post #61

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Is there an Easy Sci-Hub Donation for Dummies? scihub.org/donate/ looks scam. https://sci-hub.tech/donation/ at least has the same bitcoin address as sci-hub.do, but as for PayPal et al... ???

.do seems like the canonical domain

https://whereisscihub.now.sh/

(Currently redirects to https://sci-hub.41610.org/)

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