skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern platforms enable the rapid and wide spread of information from peer to peer, whether truthful or false. But if foreign provocateurs can successfully sow discord and fan the flames to the point that there's riots in the streets, there are deeper problems in that society that have been lurking skin deep in the minds and fears of the populace, almost always tracing back to economic anxiety, even when masquerading as xenophobia or racism.

These posts about foreign psy-ops are implicitly suggesting that the representative democracy and predominantly free assembly that western states have come to expect is trivially susceptible to DDOS. This is true, but there's nothing fundamentally enshrined in the deep rulebook of history that says big western states must remain organized along such values. A populace not subject to daily economic anxiety is more willing to tolerate less representation in government without there being widespread discontent. It's a false dichotomy that a western state must either be overtly democratic or completely dysfunctional.

The remarkable thing is that mega-states loosely constituted along ethno-national lines, beholden to frequent elections and policy reversals, in a hypercompetitive world with increasingly open borders and stubbornly persistent income inequality, existed with remarkable stability for as long as they did. We've entered a time where the formula is easy to disrupt, and it's up to each state's people to evaluate how to proceed when faced with such a threat, but people worrying about the cost of living will find it hard to think of the big picture.
> Or autogenerate a Rust enum with the known variants inlined, plus the extra Unknown field.

Unfortunately, support for this extra Unknown() field is not added to rustc yet even in Rust2018 edition. Compiler can do that, because it already used to save space for Option<>.

> Rust enums do not have C semantics, even if the underlying machine representation is annotated to mimic C.

Yes, it's the bug I'm talking about. Solutions are: a) remove repr(C), b) fix repr(C).
Mixing: Google “opencv face morphing” (probably won’t use deep learning, but _if_ you’re in it for the results, that doesn’t matter)

Better: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2017-10_Progressive-... (source available with license “Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International”)
While I too worry about political influence through abuse of social media, this article doesn't prove that this actually took place.

What we see here is that there are some very dubious twitter accounts with some interactions. But are these meaningful interactions? Did any of the content reach and influence the supposed target audience? Are the communities shown in the Gephi graph real communities? These communities and their interactions could just as well be fake. When I was working on exactly this, I noticed that fake communities (i.e. sets of fake accounts all retweeting each other) are quite common.

Just look at the specific accounts mentioned (Pascal66616113 and 1Happeningnow). They have only 2 and 51 followers, respectively, and right now it's 4 and 72.

I think it's very important to detect malicious political accounts on social media and be aware of their impact. This article mentions two examples of such accounts, but doesn't prove anything about impact. The conclusion that France is losing an information war here doesn't follow.
But now you have a dozen or more people who know what's happening and we all know, three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
It's made building cross-platform desktop applications that are just wrappers for existing web-apps down-right trivial (and no web-dev experience required there.)

And that case applies more often than you'd think. For example, the Spotify app, the Slack app†, the various Facebook Messenger "clients", etc.

† the Slack app is built with http://macgapproject.github.io/, but it's pretty much the same thing.
Yeah, or I'd say "namely"
On the other hand, maybe we’d all have physical keyboards now instead of poking at glass...
You spend more time at work than nearly anywhere else in your life. You spend more time with your coworkers than nearly any other group of people.

Why wouldn't you pursue someone if they show mutual interest? You just have to be more careful, more respectful, and use more tact than if you had met someone in a bar (though personally I'd adhere to these regardless of circumstance). If you're not sure how to approach it with these general principles, then it's probably best to stay out of it until you're confident enough in yourself.

You also have to realize that if it doesn't work out, it'll be harder to break things off cleanly.

But to rule it out altogether? That's a bit extreme.
Simple answer, Switzerland has no highrises to provide enough square metres for everybody, and Swiss don't build them because the will "obstruct sights"
If only Elon Musk had managed it amirite?

Oh wait...
I agree, for me too. On the other side, the "we want to get rid of drivers" and "squeeze driver" type of stories I hear from Uber made me go to Lyft by default. Most drivers I ask which drive for both prefer driving for Lyft.
This is not some troublemakers breaking things for fun anymore : this is full on state repression, and the violence is not there to stop crimes in progress but to dissuade people from voicing their rejection of the government.

There were highschool protests today. Just look at the videos from this feed, and even with great sympathy for the police, even keeping in mind that context can be missing, I believe you'll see that we are beyond maintaining the civil peace :

https://twitter.com/Obs_Violences

I would argue that the protesters' violence (and i'm not denying there is) is a response to the state's own violence. I was still living in Paris about 2 years, when the protests were peaceful gatherings and the cops were unleashed without provocation, just to prevent people from being together. Repression and disdain form the people have grown the peaceful protests into violent protests, and now the protests are growing into an insurrection.

That's not blind rage, or an appetite for destruction : that is a democracy self-correcting when its government has consistently been too far over the line. That is standing up to the bully.
Maybe if MBS starts to care about Uyghurs?
I wonder when they will start attempting educational games that teach math and language. Those types of skills could lead to general purpose AIs.
Problem is, there's no hard line. One could reasonably argue that expressing your opinion to a sufficiently large number of people translates to measurable influence on their behavior. Hell, depending on the nature of the relationship, expressing your opinion to one person can translate to them changing behavior.
I'm interested in building a security-sensitive project with Nordic's stack, are there no ways to isolate their "softdevice" from the rest of the code running on the SoC?
The statement "NT is based on OS/2 3.x" is misleading. NT isn't based on OS/2 3.x, it was originally meant to be OS/2 3.x, until the IBM-Microsoft divorce. But, despite being originally intended to be OS/2 3.x, there was not much OS/2 1.x/2.x code in it. The main areas of inherited code were HPFS and the OS/2 compatibility subsystem, neither of which ended up being core features, and were dropped in newer releases. Outside of those, there was very minimal code inherited from 1.x/2.x. "NT is based on OS/2 3.x" makes it sound like NT inherited more of the design or implementation of OS/2 1.x/2.x than it actually did.
Didn't they essentially do that to themselves? The various ventures of "Google" are now several companies that just happen to be majority-owned by one company (Alphabet.) If the SEC didn't like that arrangement, all they would have to do is get Alphabet to divest its ownership.
A tool for election forensics
I agree. I pulled those lines from the teams that use the negative karma feature.
The trouble with telling noble lies is that once people realize that you've been lying to them, they start to suspect everything you say. That's part of why the replication crisis in the social sciences is so corrosive: it shreds people's willingness to believe unintuitive things that institutions insist are true, even in those instances where institutions are correct.
Turns out another part of keeping healthcare costs down is curing the sick as early as possible. In the US, even if you have insurance, you still often have deductibles and copays that strongly disincentivize you going to the doctor. So you don't, until that cold turns into pneumonia or you tear your trachea from a bad cough.

Theres a completely different mindset in the first world compared to how people in the US behave - if there is anything unusual "its better safe than sorry" in any European country. You still go to the doctor even with a "routine" illness because there is often no expense to you to do so.

But that is the right behavior. You want that at the societal level. Because for every false alarm there is someone developing a crippling or lethal ailment that will dramatically reduce their productivity and cost you substantially more than 15 minutes of consultation and 30 pills would have had they seen a doctor right away.

The US is killing its own citizens to line the pockets of the money hungry just by having its healthcare system be insurance based at all, regardless of if people are insured or not.
i was kind of expeciting a link that would go directly to the original comment page, as an alternative to the cached comment section, so that i can choose between opening the cached comments or going directly to the live ones
After quantum I did my best to switch but I had the following problems: no scrollbar search highlights, terrible Linux/gnome dark theme integration, angular source maps not working. After a couple of weeks I got back to Chrome.
Multiple providers all over the world are affected as well. For example, all Vietnamese providers has their data service disrupted yesterday.
Why would Safari [i.e. Webkit] die? Looking at desktop + mobile market shares, if anyone would be "the next to die", it'd be Firefox.
https://www.economist.com/china/2018/12/01/why-only-2-of-chi...
Conversely, let's just pretend that there's no foreign influence at all?

Targeting mass discontent and revolutionary movements like that is not new. Germans have poured millions of marks into the Bolsheviks during WW1, for example. It doesn't mean that everyone who supported Bolsheviks was a foreign agent, but it would certainly be unwise to ignore that sort of thing, and it behooves one to ask why those other governments support these movements.
there should be a way to appeal decisions about being denied service.
As someone who just went back to the office after working remote, I agree. Companies need to allow working remote more often. I don't need to be remote 100%, but having the option to work for a week or two somewhere else is great.
How Wikipedia groups and filters words in search
So is the issue the teen or the Arab country?
Good point about guarding breakable things.

I can't type with my 16-month old on my lap because she just pulls the keys right off the keyboard. That caught me off guard the first time it happened. ;-)
You make some good points. It's possible that the article, in itself, is a kind of propaganda to make it seem as if the actions of the French are influenced more by foreign agents than by their own volition and will.

That said, TW could do more to make the example accounts less relevant in any case --to eliminate some of the accusation.
I don't know why I linked it if you just end up making your very own conclusions.

This paper is part of the CERN CLOUD project (http://cloud.web.cern.ch/), an experiment trying to model our atmosphere to find out how much aerosols affect cloud formation and climate change.

The conclusion so far is that cosmic rays can charge aerosol particles, and produce big enough particles to contribute to cloud forming. This represents less than 10% (several per cent) of the total particle formation from nucleation, a major, but subdominant role. Nucleation (the creation of big enough particles) itself plays a 43% role, the rest is particles already in the atmosphere. So cosmic rays is less than 10% of 43%.

In any case if cosmic ray created aerosols would have such a large effect on clouds, so would other aerosols, such as those from air pollution.

Clouds themselves play a less than 10% role in climate change, so it's like 10% of the 10% (cosmic ray nucleation) of 43% (nucleation), as I said a tiny effect. Clouds also not just trap heat, but reflect sunlight back, cooling the planet.

As Ken Carslaw, one of the authors of the paper suggested: "It’s a tiny effect and previous studies suggest it will not be important". https://cosmosmagazine.com/climate/cosmic-ray-theory-of-glob...
New Rust home page is up and relatively unchanged from beta
Life Inside China’s Social Credit Laboratory
> Make your own opinion and fact check everything you read online.

Dear French Citizens,

A foreign adversary has infiltrated our country and sabotaged seven of our bridges.

When driving, please stop and briefly leave your vehicle to manually authenticate each bridge for structural integrity before continuing your trip.

Stay safe, France!

Sincerely,
The GPG UX Team
Great example. For posterity, You need to explain the standard oil example more. I don’t think many people know about the story of standard oil gaining a monopoly in oil through transportation.
> stopping ad-blockers from working on Mozilla owned sites

Err, do you mean preventing extensions from modifying critical sites like addons.mozilla.org? Because that's seems like common sense to me.
Most of the workarounds seem to boil down to de facto static typing in function signatures. That is, using annotations / rigidly formatted comments to provide the type information necessary for IDE support.
Indeed. How do we not know this article itself is not an example of the phenomenon?
And like the Chinese historically did, ensure these people are not local to the constituency they represent/rule over to eliminate favoritism.
Interesting. Do you have a source for this? I know nothing about the manufacturing process.
Because in many places in the world, speaking some languages is inviting trouble. In US, for example, people speaking Arabic in public (including online) can be harassed over that.
you beat me to it
I suspect these 'misinformation campaigns' are completely ineffectual and the main effect we are seeing is factual information routing around mainstream media outlets and successfully embarrassing subjects that the mainstream media would rather protect.

For instance it was very embarrassing for the mainstream media and the democratic party that leaked emails showed them in collusion and undermining Bernie Sanders, but this was not misinformation. Likewise it was very embarrassing for the foreign policy establishment when their tools such as the oscar-winning White Helmets relief-workers were photographed arm-in-arm with rebel militants and shown staging videos, but I didn't see any of this exposed as 'misinformation.' I guess it was just 'the wrong information' to be reporting on.

Revelations like this are much more powerful than silly memes from Twitter accounts with no real followers.
You are right. The 2017 election in France was under the spotlight especially after what happened in 2016 in the US and the Brexit in the UK.

EM! (Macron's party) was a victim of massive internet attacks during the campaign.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

In the past couple of weeks, I have seen French fake posts that were popular in the past 24 months raise again like an army of Phoenix. As far as media go, we have usually and relatively independent media in France, even public. However, foreign entities and especially RT France have been controversial in some of their coverage.
I’m confused why you would think id. Everyone is ruled by circumstance “every moment” and even when the person enjoys every bit of it. A puppet that loves who controls his strings is still without free will. I’m a transgender woman for example and had an unfavorable life, almost everyday by how persons treat me by aesthetics and from my understanding of your writing “I would only be considered having free will” if achieving the impossible against reality. Except even in that case I wasn’t free for desiring the outcome, having it happen and even enjoying it. Accountability never is correct unless directed towards the complete system as a whole. Everyone is forced every moment till death.
It's why I issue a separate commit for reformatting.

At least when the person sees my commit in git blame they know to annotate the previous version.
Not just lobbyists. A lot of professionals working for the government, military and all the companies that provide service for the government. Being close to DC, the area is flush with government money which is also funding a healthy software development and IT environment. Money may be corrupting politics in DC and ruining the nation but everyone in the vicinity is getting some of that DC gold dust. Record taxes and increased government borrowing should keep that gravy train going for a while longer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley?wprov=sfla1
Kind of makes me wonder if there are people that live without routines and rituals, and what causes the transition to and from between living with and without routines and rituals.

Can anyone give their experience on the matter?
Firefox has also supported multiple profiles since forever.
What's the impact on you going to be like?
Wow. This is Japan-like scenario already. Why isn't this as widely known?
Short version: the Australian energy market is a mess and was being gamed by a small (2 or 3) number of operators of gas peaking plants who were driving the spot price up to several orders of magnitude higher than normal wholesale prices. The battery by simply existing cut the ability of these operators to game the market as heavily, because they could only bid up to the floor price the state government had set for the battery to bid in at.

This is direct state interference in a competitive market so the “floor” is still quite high. With more private operators entering the market the ability to game the system will be eroded further since everyone wants to get the easy money.

The savings were mostly due to cutting the fat out of the market gouging practices. No/little change to actual supply occurred.
Oh come on! No one here, other than yourself, has tried to claim that exponential cost reductions will continue indefinitely. But it is a fact, that solar experienced that type of cost reduction for a period of 2-3 decades. It's very unlikely to continue on that trajectory, but it doesn't really matter because solar is now one of the cheapest forms of generation on the market at this point.

Batteries are in a similar position as solar was a decade or two ago. The grid operators desperately need storage capabilities, and li-ion is one of the more promising solutions, but it's still too expensive. But another decade of cost reductions can change that. No one knows for certain if it's possible, but like I said in my original post, no dramatic technology changes are really needed, just better logistics and scaling could be enough.
Acrobatic geckos can even race on water’s surface
Whoops, you're totally right- got my Chinese metals mixed up. 75% of US tellurium comes from China, and I must have gotten cross-contaminated.

> The cadmium doesn't leak out of the panel any more than arsenic leaks out of cell phone power amplifiers.

The actual cells are perfectly safe but the mining and manufacturing process is not. The extremely lax controls in China 20+ years ago aren't representative of the present, but they did do terrible damage and mining cadmium will always cause contamination.

> NiMH batteries do contain mixed rare earth elements (mostly lanthanum), but the particular elements used are fairly abundant.

Yes! That's what I had been thinking of, besides magnets obviously. Lanthanum is also notable in that it's used to make gasoline, along with cerium.
"Midwestern farmers will lose 75 percent of their crop yields"

and other farmers will benefit and have increased yeilds. I don't mind facts. But misleading ones I do mind.
> whatever they use to monitor the rest of the machines.

"Ah, are we supposed to do that too?"
This seems like it might be useful for hackathons, especially when working with team members who aren't well-versed in git or virtualenv.
I agree, and it's not mainly because of splitting the screen. Very long lines of code just read badly, even if you have the screen-space to fit them.

It's easy to skip and forget where you were when you look to compare the code to something and then look back.
Anything unprofessional would offend someone.
HSR isn't "public transportation." Your maid isn't riding HSR to work. It's way more expensive than car travel for kids with families. HSR is taking state resources from people who need it to provide welfare for yuppies and business people.
We’ve only started the process of making one: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/12/06/call-for-rust-2019-roa...
If you want to rebut something on the article, it would be helpful. Objectively, the route is not optimal, it is going to be slower than promised. Because the route is longer, and speeds lower, trips are going to take longer. The cost is far exceeding estimates. These are all true and real criticisms.
When the web started to mature, seeing the MSM lose control of the narrative was a breath of fresh air. However the average person started to understand and use the web, so did sponsored entities and governments. After this there was a noticeable change of narrative on the web. Everything was polarizing, right and wrong with no middle ground.

I used to fully support direct democracy, but after seeing this I've changed my views.
Is an ad-hominem really the only thing you have to contribute? No thoughts on whether the $100 billion (and climbing) cost is really worth it?
Do I Deserve What I Have? The case of pure socialism pt. II
Not at all! It means it isn’t complete. That was always true; we release a new thing every six weeks.
Because it is indeed an electron app
All of generated faces I've seen recently are based on CelebA dataset. So the results tend to be very good looking people. If you want to generate something more realistic you need to find of build a large dataset of "more realistic" faces.
Thanks for this. I've recently been reading Bruce Pascoe's 'Dark Emu', which is on how Aboriginal Australians had agriculture too, even recorded in the journals of the original Euro explorers but now lost to public consciousness.
No offense meant to anyone, but don't engineers at Microsoft feel humiliated over the fact that their employer chose an open source project that was started by their rival viz. Google?

I am just curious how competitiveness works in FAANG.
Yeah the bold claims are only plausible if they are in a domain the persona has previously demonstrated competence in.

If Aunt May tells me I have to use cold butter in grandma's cookie recipe, I'll absolutely believe her. But no matter how many times she corrects my baking, I'm never going to take her advice on dentistry or geopolitics.
What you are describing as a "right" is actually nothing more than an abridgment of the right to conduct simple journalism. You have no right to direct what I remember and your government has carefully spun this to ensure that you can't remember what you want to without being subject to absurd legal frameworks.

Fortunately, at least for the moment, this law is not enforced, as evinced by the people taking photos of people all over the place in Berlin without asking for "consent."
Doesn't have to be 1 company making all the money. Apart from that, most drivers use both apps