skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here comes the first TikTok war west care about.

There's tons of TikTok content about Syrian or Yemeni war over the years, or the more recent Nagorno-Karabakh, with associated OSINT analysis and communities. It just does not get much attention. Queue geopolitical conflict that affects the west and much of western OSINT analysts have pivoted from their respective areas to Ukraine, something not seen other conflicts. I get it, it's a sexier conflict where a competent military power is going balls out. Of course there's also issues of race as seen in EU policy towards UKR refugees.
> unnatural velocity of projectiles

Unless it's been modded you'll find the Arma games have an absurd level of accuracy in their physics, they have the correct speed of bullets down to decimal points and other real world interactions like gravity and air resistance.

The entire engine is built around simulating the real world as far as technically feasible and the other half of the game studio uses it to sell war simulations to militaries around the world.
But we don't.

Canola is a trademark for a seed oil with low erucic acid, but it's still rapeseed oil, just like Cosmic Crisp is still just an apple.
Asking questions that elicit thinking, and not just rote answers, are what we want in learning. Not just "what's the answer to [question]", but "how did you get that?" This also works well for uncovering wrong assumptions or incorrect problem-solving methods. Getting students (or anyone) to learn how to learn on their own is, sadly, not taught in school here (California).

I gave a talk a few years ago on how people learn: https://ted.dev/learntalks
Well they did get at least one thing right: actual discreet window title bars with usable controls.
Except the developers can still have access to the key, they just have to share it with Google. This not only violates the old advice: "Never share your private key!", it also gives you the worst of both worlds: You have to trust both the random developer and Google to keep the keys private.
Genuine question: how much does Russian public opinion matter? It's not like Russia has free elections. Iran's Islamic Republic seems pretty secure despite low public approval. I'm sure public opinion is important, but I don't understand its role in a dictatorship.
The point is somewhat undermined by,

A: using artificial intelligence when statistics would have been enough ( or a failure to explain what part made it AI )

B: Using Chinese tiktok as the title.

On a side note, Telegram is the nexus of raw information. For every video going viral on other sites, the other 99 stay on telegram and aren't very interesting for an outsider. Its going to be Russia's downfall if it doesn't have a way to control it.
Because we want a kernel that works today, and make improvements that can ship this year, not spend a decade rewriting working software.
Likely since carnivore means all meat.
You seem to be suffering from the belief that techies are smarter than everyone else, which is not only offensive but just wrong. While techies spent four years in college learning math and CS theory, journalists spent four years learning how to suss truth from fiction. That is in fact their main skill -- finding truth amongst unreliable sources.

> California Prop 22 reporting. Universally wrong about the significance of the 7/8ths rule. Actually, I found it very hard to find a mainstream reporter who got this correct considering the text of the bill.

I am however quite curious about this one. I followed this closely and did not see the bias you claim. What was it that all the journalists got wrong about the 7/8s rule?
Though he is not stupid, he can't think clearly. Can't even control his rage as seen from last interviews.
Please don't attack others. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

Perhaps you don't owe websites that play audio better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree our nations have done less than everything that could be done. I do think we've done quite better than could have been hoped around 2016.

I believe your moral certainty is quite flawed:

1. It rests entirely on hindsight.

These events only started seeming inevitable about 24 hours ago.

Now we've found them to be true, we trust and are even impressed by the Americans' warnings. But these last weeks I little doubt the Bundestag's halls, and European couches everywhere, heard many recollections of Iraq's supposed WMD program.

2. You advocate a purely moral policy.

There's a quiet part in every happy Westerner's mind that believes, without examination, in the ultimate and inevitable triumph of good over evil. To be fair, the past few generations experienced reassuring evidence for this assumption - and Hollywood keeps the reassurance alive.

Unfortunately, the good guys do not always win; moral will cannot overcome geopolitical reality. Neither Realpolitik nor MAD were made defunct by 20 years of Pax Americana. History may have had a near-death experience, but she's apparently now quite recovered.

Ukraine is Russia's neighbor. Ukraine is very much Russia's family: brothers who long cohabited. Ukraine's attitude towards Russia is legitimately a vital interest of Russia. Russia has, by right of force (Realpolitik!), complete dominance to act in Ukraine. Deterrence was always the only realistic option.

500,000 Western soldiers <500m from Moscow would be both target for, and, perhaps, sufficient justification in Russians citizens' eyes for the use of, tactical nukes.

3. It is unrealistic about how democracies work. Only the aggression your proposed policy is meant to prevent would be sufficient to convince democracies to implement it: an unfortunate catch-22.

Democracies are extremely reluctant to go to war, which is good. The price paid is inevitably foolishness in global power politics. Roosevelt could not have started a pre-emptive war with Japan, though perhaps this would have been the optimal move.

Similarly, there is no chance that, in the context of 20 years of unbroken peace, any Nato member would be interested in such a massive deployment directly next to Moscow. No scenario would have allowed this risk.

If it did somehow happen, Russia's aggressive response could easily divide the alliance in recrimination for implementing such a reckless policy.
> though the plane does not look like a Russian one

A-10 "Warthog", only flown by the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunde...
The Half Keyboard from Matias does just this. You type with your left hand, and when you want to type a key from the right side of a keyboard you use the space bar as a modifier key. So to type an 'L' you hold space and hit the 'S'.

In addition to the Half Keyboard, which is literally half the size of a regular keyboard, they also make full size keyboards that can be used in this way. I bought a Half Keyboard years ago, for around $100. They now sell for $600, likely because they're making money on ADA-motivated purchases. Employers are much less price-sensitive in those cases.
Exactly, and that might be a good thing. I don't have the answer to that question but it sure seems to me like our current system ruins lives and the environment to enrich the few who are willing to step on everyone else. Doesn't seem ideal to put it lightly
Does it need full top-down control of a substantial chunk of the economy to happen? A few regulations saying 10% has to be made in-country, along with investigators and fines to back it up seems like it would work without going full centralized-and-planned economy.
Imgur has large amounts of curated propaganda on its front page nowadays despite claiming to be social & voted etc. No republican is mentioned except to condemn them or agree with Democrat orthodoxy. Nothing criticising any mainstream democrat appears ever on the front page. You won't see something funny by a Sanders supporter criticising Hilary in any circumstances, for example. As long as there is no criticism of a Democrat there's a reasonable amount of very left wing supporting posts. eg "People deserve healthcare, rich don't pay tax, middle america has been robbed etc." The only exceptions are for the pariahs Sinema & Manchin - who opposed the mainstream. Plenty of vitriol there, which even if you think it's entirely justified underscores how there is none, zero, elsewhere.

Imgur used to show currently viral images and was all about entertainment and filled a fairly similar niche to Tik Tok. Nowadays it has gone down the outrage engagement path(?) Politics seems like most of the content and it's so curated that it's feels like Pravda levels of blatant propaganda - even reading takes that seem to agree with what you were already thinking gives you pause that you must have missed something. I'm predicting there will be zero "anti-war" posts advocating that the US stay out of the Russia-Ukraine disaster. None. Such a position, right or wrong, is likely to be held by a signficant fraction of Imgur users and indeed Democrats.

Imgur is so extreme as to be obvious especially in the light of how dramatically it changed, which is instructive for us as an example. How would we know if facebook and twitter were playing with their algorithms with just a little more subtlety than that? (And maybe in an utterly different, unpredictable and unexpected direction?)
> at a given date and time

*after a given date and time

There's nothing stopping people forging the data later with already broadcast cryptographic signatures
That was an interesting rabbit hole, their github owner is https://github.com/licensezero/. I don't think I've seen licensing as a service before (https://fastpathlicense.com/) or connecting a license to a Patron reward tier.
This sounds great if you trust yourself to rehire someone better, reliably enough to cover for the friction of re-hiring and the collateral effect of firing on the morale of the rest of the team.

If you're likely to see a new candidate's strengths, but the incumbent's weaknesses, then they're cooked. If the other employees have a different perception of the situation than you do, then the morale hit is assured. I have a rule of thumb, that upon firing a well-liked, or even not-disliked employee, it takes about a year for morale within their team to recover.
Parent may not be a US citizen, and might bravely be saying their opinion within reach of Russia. No context of USA is necessary.
I think this is misinformation. Here are the provisions of the memorandum. There is nothing there about "security guarantees" that anyone has violated except Russia.

1. "[T]o respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine." Only Russia seems to have violated that one.

2. To "reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations." Same. The only one breaking this promise is Russia.

3. "[T]o refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind." Haven't seen anyone claim that any party has violated this one.

4. "[T]o seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine." Again, I think only Russia has broken this promise.

5. "[N]ot to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear weapon State party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons." So far so good.

6. To "consult in the event a situation arises that raises a question concerning these commitments." OK.

Read the memorandum for yourself if you think I'm quoting selectively. It's short.: https://web.archive.org/web/20170312052208/http://www.cfr.or...
Because they are under the - in my opinion mistaken - belief that they will be able to deal with this using sanctions and external pressure alone. For some reason people seem to want to believe that the counterparty here is rational even if all of the evidence is against that.

It is very much like the run up to World War II, when countries were making all kinds of deals with Hitler regarding neutrality because they believed that that would keep them out of the firing line, when in fact it enabled a war on a much larger scale than would have ever materialized if the allied sphere had immediately struck back. But even the United States only responded after Pearl Harbor. So, now we have a real problem, and the people of the Ukraine get to choose between abandoning their country, fighting back or living under the Russian jackboot for as long as it takes to plunder their country.

This is not a good day, for anybody.
The parent works at Facebook/Meta leading their Rust team, focusing on compiler and ecosystem improvements. So that in and of itself is a sort of hint into what that info could be like, even if it's not actual details of the order of magnitude or anything.
What are you taking offense to, his idea that Russia and Eastern Europe are neighbors (which seems objectively true)? Or idea that the US should not involve itself in Eastern Europe-Russian disputes?
Somehow related take.

When I was still interested in blockchains back in 2018 I was thinking that instead of proof of work, wouldn't it be nice to have a distributed CI where you run your builds & tests on end-user machines, it computes a hash of the resulting artifact. Which is validated by multiple nodes that run the same job for validation (then split the PoW fees among themselves).

It's not an easy problem to solve of course, and didn't go too deep into what TPM (Trusted Platform Module) can do, but I think you would need an isolation unit from the kernel/OS to allow running untrusted code, and prevent tampering. There's definitely a fine line between such a functionality and spyware that would need serious safeguards.
NATO is a defensive, voluntary organisation.

This idea that it somehow coercing Eastern European countries to join is baseless and ridiculous.
> playing card game to teach your kids

> "Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange"

Just how old and already well-instructed is said daughter I wonder. Certainly not as young and novice (and sparsely attentive) as my ten year-old who's also learning Python. Because he wants to, I should add.
I don't believe they have any Western, warm-water ports.
However, as an autocratic state, I wouldn't be surprised if Russian social media was shut down if it was used to spread messages contrary to state propaganda.
Shockingly prescient and a well-done analysis in general, but I still don’t buy the “Putin had no other choice” argument.

It boils down to the equivalent of the “It wasn’t my fault that I raped the woman, she wore a short skirt!” bullshit argument.

I understand the “this is how realpolitik works” line of thought, I really do. But it doesn’t change who’s at fault here.
On a technical level, the hack has been demonstrated to work, but actually hacking someone via the technique has not, in my understanding.
With only a few hundred file, it's easy to look at the list and spot the outliers. In a real world scenario, how would you know that a few dozen files are missing when you search for "karl" and the files tagged with "Kral" don't show up? On a small file collections that only you has access to, you might remember them and notice that they aren't part of the results but that doesn't work for large libraries or if multiple people are collaborating.

With a directory structure at least you can look into the folder of the project, see what's inside and open the files to find the one you were looking for. If you were looking for a specific Word file and only a dozen of them are present in the folder, you can always just open all of them manually to check what's inside regardless of how poorly they were named/managed. Good luck trying to find the Word file with bad tags when searching for "*.docx" return thousands of results.
It was many weeks and the US basically said they would not even consider the main points at issue.
Turkey has complained for years that NATO would be required to help them with this or that conflict in the area, and it didn't.

In the end, there is no supranational tribunal for military allegiances - in matters of conflict, Hobbes' jungle is still very much there.
Flowcopter begins testing the first hydraulic multicopter
We could easily seed the rest of the solar system and even a few nearby other solar systems with basic archaea and what not capable of surviving on any large object with water, at least guaranteeing some form of life escapes the death of Earth. It takes intelligence to figure out how to do this, but we have enough intelligence and the means to do it right now, but we aren't since we're largely concerned specifically with human survival, and humans are much harder to keep alive and transport through space.
The main problem with downloading APKs from the GitHub releases page, is that it doesn't come with a low-friction way of distributing updates. This is especially important for unofficial client apps like NewPipe, which basically become bricked at a moment's notice, and updating within a day or two is important to maintain continuity of service.

Not to mention that an app may be hosted on a different platform, perhaps one that doesn't do auto-builds. Or, as was already pointed out, builds do exist but contain telemetry or secret code. In that case, a trusted intermediary (which I trust heck of a lot more than Google) that pulls and compiles the code and then distributes it, is a strictly value-added proposition.
Fair enough. But he was only VP for 2 years at time, hardly a dictator. How does the American political selection process need to be modified so that tyrants like Dick don't come into power?
This has happened to me a number of times! I think time of day has a heavier influence than we might think. Submitting is only part of the algorithm. Both vote count and velocity of votes are really important too.
Then maybe as data scientists we should stop writing production code in notebooks and instead write and deploy it properly, like the rest of the development community does, and stop papering over laziness and bad habits.

It’s only inefficient to move out of notebooks if you’ve written poorly structured, messy code in the first place. We wouldn’t accept that out of other devs, so I’m not sure why data scientists should magically get a pass.
I was already under the impression that the GrapheneOS developer(s) were overworked, but still they insist in doing everything themselves because no other project is good enough

I have been using for the past year, and the 'advanced' user experience is not great. Updates are forced to the latest version of android, does not seem safe, and definitely does not feel stable, less customization than other roms, a bit aggressive towards root

I will probably go back to lineageos microg f-droid and some hardened configurations

F-Droid is provides invaluable service for android, privacy, open-source, android developers. GrapheneOS seems like an exercise in craziness a bit to extreme for me
Why is c++ necessary? Shouldn't any programing language be able to do the same things. Maybe with different amounts of code
The odds of you losing your entire investment getting in on the "bottom floor" of a startup are higher than you think.
This document has mistakes.

The consequences of Theorem 2.2 are wrong as stated. Substitute k = n, and count the number of eigenvalues they say exist.

Caught another mistake:

Section 3.2: First, an observation: the column sums of Q(G) are all zero is wrong. Contradicts their definition of Q(G).
Joe Rogan is very well paid to have his opinions. I do wonder who is paying him though; it can’t just be Spotify.
...the Sino-British Joint Declaration is still in effect, until 2047.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration
Anonymous declares cyber war on Russia, RT.com is down
“I don’t know what’s gonna happen, but I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames” - Jim Morrison
Ask HN: Being bombarded by recruiter emails, all same pattern
I can't stand these emails and I get _a lot_ of them.

All the emails follow the same pattern:

- Tech startups

- One initial email with them being very impressed with my background

- two "gentle nudge" followups

- All the links are prefixed with "znsrc.com"

Looking at the original email, I can't seem to find what company is hosting my information on their platform so I can ask them to remove it.

Sometime ago I did ask getrocket.com to remove me from their list. They claimed to remove me. However they followed nearly the same pattern, so I have to wonder if they got better at hiding their tracks and didn't end up removing me.

Due to the spammy nature of these emails, I would never consider a job opportunity from any of them.

I was hoping some HN folks might have some insight on who this business is so I can opt out.
> What does it mean to be independent then? Is it more like undecided?

I'm sure it means different things to different people. For me, it means that I don't follow any party's platform in lockstep. I try to judge each candidate and policy based on merits, not team affiliation and have voted for multiple parties over the years (Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, Green).
For anyone looking for translations[1] of the original tweets[2] by the (blue-tick, verified) director:

"The garbage that your talented businessmen have put into low-Earth orbit is produced exclusively by the engines of the Russian Progress MS cargo ships. If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from an uncontrolled descent from orbit and falling to the territory of the United States or..."

(next tweet)

"Europe? There is also the option of dropping a 500-ton structure on India and China. Do you want to threaten them with this prospect? The ISS does not fly over Russia, so all risks are yours. Are you ready for them? Gentlemen, when you plan sanctions, check those who generate them for illness"

NB: I attempted to translate the source by-URL using Google Translate[3], but as of 2022-02-24 22:47 UTC that didn't work.

NB: Attempting to use archive.org to retain a copy of the Yandex translation also appeared not to work (a response was saved[4] but it is a message to say that the request was blocked)

[1] - https://translate.yandex.com/translate?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwi...

[2] - https://twitter.com/Rogozin/status/1496934215333695488

[3] - https://twitter-com.translate.goog/Rogozin/status/1496934215...

[4] - https://web.archive.org/web/20220224224402/https://translate...
> the trajectory of the ISS doesn't go over Russia

That is definitely a false statement, but admittedly my wish for the ISS to fall on top of Kremlin is unlikely to be granted given ISS' 51.6° orbital inclination and Moscow's 55.75° latitude.
The problem with these warnings is that you have zero idea of whether or not they are honest, mildly exaggerated, or just political posturing.

As of a few days ago, it was quite clear that Russia would invade Donetsk and Lugansk. It was not at all clear whether an invasion of Kiev would actually take place, or if it was a fairy tale, just like Saddam's WMDs.
He cares about the legacy of Russia more than the day to day reality of it.

It's very common amongst leaders who have been in power for so long.

Also given his age he is unlikely to be around to see the negative decline of Russia as a result of this action.
> so this isn't great news to see "the ladder being pulled up another rung"

Man I so vibe with that. But the new Cs do have a ton of new features and, more to the point, I trust Linus to make this kind of decision more than just about anyone.