skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, surely there are biases in some ways, including some I may not even be conscious of. That being said, I try to follow a fact-based approach: yes, the conclusion is biased in the sense that it was written in a personal context (again, this article wasn't meant to be shared on several platforms like HN), but I can assure you the rest of the article follows this fact-based approach as much as possible. I even mention build reproducibility and Play App Signing: both mentions could be seen in favor of F-Droid (yet the reality is more nuanced than that).

I'm perfectly aware of the FOSS culture and why some want to use F-Droid to promote this. This is just not what I had in mind when writing the article. I simply intended to address some flaws or deliberate choices from F-Droid that I think are in opposition to the practical approach to modern privacy/security. It happens that I think GrapheneOS and modern Android in general follow that approach. Last month, a reddit troll tried to portrait me as a GrapheneOS developer (when I'm an occasional contributor) and used the article to explain how GrapheneOS would be "anti-FOSS". That is so wrong. GrapheneOS is FOSS at its core, and I personally value FOSS solutions. Not sure how someone would extrapolate the opposite from my article.

Knowing that, I then stumbled upon this thread and noticed people digging up random contributions in my GitHub account instead of reacting to the content. Contributing to an alternative project doesn't mean bias or endorsement. Contributing doesn't necessarily mean code, GitHub issues, or money. You could even see this article as a contribution to F-Droid in some ways (but I'm sure they're aware of the majority of the underlined issues, and I don't have the pretention to do better than them). Then again, I deeply think GrapheneOS and Accrescent are paving the way for modern FOSS solutions.
My mother tongue isn't English either and I live in a corner of the world that has many traditional cheesemakers and a proud cheesemaking culture that goes back centuries if not millenia. Most cheese where I live as in the rest of the world is made with microbial rennet simply because it's cheaper, more available and easier to store and handle.

I'm sorry but I don't believe that 99% (or "the vast majority") of cheese where you live is made with animal rennet. If that's true, please let me know how you know this.
Isn't it though?

Does create a bit of work when you have to figure out which parts of cURL need to be ported to Python, and which can be safely omitted. Copying a cURL request adds in a lot of headers - many of which I still don't properly know the purpose of.

I'll get there eventually. : ) In the meantime - thank god for whoever wrote "Copy as cURL request"!
The best I've found for learning to write Chinese characters has been Skritter (https://skritter.com/)
If you are following a textbook, you can probably find pre-made decks of characters for that textbook.
I don't think that's as true anymore with the fentanyl stuff. I saw a lot of ex-marines that got hooked on pain pills because their bodies were beat up, moved on to fentanyl, started dealing to support habit, and hatch a 17 year bit because someone ODd. Lots of first time in trouble people caught up in fentanyl.
Especially for French, since, like English, the actual pronunciation can be quite unexpected, compared to the text.

I came out of high school with four years of Latin and three years of German.

Being a language expert, I thought I'd try the beginning French course. The first day in class, the professor began rattling off in French, and the other students seemed to have no problem with that, having apparently had several years of high school French. I couldn't make heads or tails of what what going on and quickly dropped the course.
For like 10 years in every thread about social media someone brings up their “own political agenda” but never specifies what they mean. If the main objective is maximizing profits there can’t be a strong political agenda because with every shift in governance the way to maximize profit will also shift. This whole political debate about social networks is just stupid they are cooperations first and if there is profit to be made they will take it no matter if it’s left or right.
Maybe if you have been chasing or watching imaginary nazis in computer games, movies and on the 'news' in the last four years perhaps?

If a claim is without any evidence and has no substance, it can be easily dismissed and ignored.

Not every silly, baseless conspiracy theory has an immediate association with the 'far-right' or with 'Christian, white supremacists' and especially not this one.

As long as they have zero evidence and they are unable to substantiate it, who cares? We already know bitcoin has failed being a peer-to-peer electronic cash system and it is still useless as a currency.
You may not be into comics but I still recommend Lynda Berry’s Making Comics for the aspiring draftsman. Depending on how you best learn, it may be a good fit. Playful, yet structured. So much in the early stages is about overcoming inhibitions and “just do it”, and this book helps with that. Also recommend Gary Panter’s 10 “rules” for keeping a sketchbook. Have fun! Oh, and look up the urban sketchers community, might have some good hints.
Ok, and no problem about the non-native language; English speakers are perfectly good at misunderstanding each other too.

My reading of it is that he was frustrated that he had to be in a meeting while something important was happening to his people and he felt disconnected from them. To release that tension and passion he used some humour about how meetings are hard to schedule in a wartime.
I thought social media manipulation was well known for a long time, just one example:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook...

Quote:

As of October 2019, around 15,000 Facebook pages with a majority US audience were being run out of Kosovo and Macedonia, known bad actors during the 2016 election.
Collectively, those troll-farm pages—which the report treats as a single page for comparison purposes—reached 140 million US users monthly and 360 million global users weekly. Walmart’s page reached the second-largest US audience at 100 million.
The troll farm pages also combined to form:

- the largest Christian American page on Facebook, 20 times larger than the next largest—reaching 75 million US users monthly, 95% of whom had never followed any of the pages.

- the largest African-American page on Facebook, three times larger than the next largest—reaching 30 million US users monthly, 85% of whom had never followed any of the pages.

- the second-largest Native American page on Facebook, reaching 400,000 users monthly, 90% of whom had never followed any of the pages.

- the fifth-largest women’s page on Facebook, reaching 60 million US users monthly, 90% of whom had never followed any of the pages.
My interpretation is that the social problems around refugees is that they are refugees from poor places. Generally poor, young, uneducated and maybe traumatized.

Here in Canada the largely upper middle class Middle Eastern immigrants integrate and assimilate fairly well. On the other hand, ethnic groups from East and South Europe where we received many refugees in the 80s and 90s still have a bit of a reputation for organised crime, much as the Italians got tarred 50 years ago. Because yes, a lot of those refugees got involved with it. What else is some young Russian or Serb with no job skills and limited language skills supposed to do in the Canadian job market back then?

Bring in lots of poor uneducated people who don't speak the language and no amount of cultural compatibility will defuse the problems created.
TSMS is not the reason China wants Taiwan, and there is more to Taiwan than TSMC: a wonderful people, a thriving liberal democracy, and great local culture, for example. I understand why there is so much focus on HN on TSMC, but it's disheartening to observe the lack of realization that we are not just talking about a fab on a rock, but about human beings.
Or perhaps even the same, singular electron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

Probably not, but it's a fun idea
Glad to hear it works, but I’m reading a lack of commitment in

> waiting to see if Factorio gets proper controller support

But maybe I’m overthinking how complicated it will be to configure manually.
Thanks. There is no need to keep most security controls for common tools secret, and the more organisations discussing how they do it the better.

For example, a small org with no security people or a non-profit could be made much more secure by following this, so why not publish it?
Doxing 2.0, now government approved!
The ability to donate a painting to a museum and get a giant tax deduction is a big part of their value as an asset. I’m waiting for someone to have the chutzpah to try this with an NFT
Nice, nice. Please send us bug reports. :)
I agree that power is a factor, I just don't think it is a self contained explanation.
I, cyborg: How the UK wants to make its soldiers ‘superhuman’
I don't think that is sound logic.

As disgusting and insane as this invasion of Ukraine is, the current state of European treaties would not necessitate a world war as an outcome.

Putin, the evil war making scum that he is, has been explicit for DECADES that the armament and NATO flirtation with Ukraine is completely unacceptable to Russia, Russia sees Ukraine as a buffer zone against the West, and that Ukraine belongs in the Russian sphere of influence. History does not disagree with him. Ukraine was for centuries part of the Russian empire and then the Soviet Union. Ukraine has a large population of ethnically and/or culturally Russian peoples. All of these facts have been known and communicated for many years. In fact, these are some of the reasons Ukraine has never been on the path to NATO membership.

In other words, while we can and should condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it does not, per se, set us on a deterministic path to a world war.

Quoting Obama circa 2016:

"The fact is that Ukraine, which is a non-NATO country, is going to be vulnerable to military domination by Russia no matter what we do."
The (insane) UK trade industry body for Age Verification providers believes every site on the internet should be forced to only carry content suitable for under 13s, or should block all access from VPNs in case anyone from the UK is using them.

They also came out with the absolutely golden statement this week that it's not too bad that this would put vulnerable people in authoritarian countries at risk, because all we had to do was collapse the governments of Russia, China, much of Africa, Poland, Iran, sizable chunks of the Middle East etc etc. Problem solved!
Sadly you're correct, unfortunately too many European countries are run by people who have a personal vested interest in Russia. It's alarming how many German (ex)politicians have business relations and this isn't just confined to Germany. The German response to Russia is laughable, we are not going to certify a pipeline that was not certified and lets shut down more reactors so we can become more dependent on Russian gas which makes us politicians who work for Gazprom and other Russian companies richer. Don't think I am not including the USA, Wall St is sweating bullets hoping this all goes away so they can get back to licking Russia's balls.

It's easy to spot which governments are in Russia's pocket. They don't even try to hide it. Today the world can openly see who stands with freedom/Ukraine and who is in Russia's pocket.
They don't have the power to change it, though China might eventually. And they do benefit from it - international relations are rational, not so partisan; just because a competitor is involved doesn't make it wrong. The rules-based, US-led interational order brings enormous benefits to China and Russia.
> But they'll need assets on the right side of their balance sheet.

[citation needed]
I think isolation itself is the harder problem, as you don't want to have the untrusted code interface with your primary OS, nor the computer owner tamper with the isolated environment.

> I guess you can just run it on enough machines that you hope they're not collaborating?

Right validation through numbers. Still susceptible to a 51% attack, if I recall correctly what Sybil attacks are about.

This type of proof of work gives you a way to find collusion post fact. For example if your last commit on a PR (which triggers a decentralized CI), is the same commit on which you base you distribution build (assuming reproducible builds, same output), that's run on your fully trusted system, you would find out if jobs were faked.
I didn't realize it either. As I was reading the wikipedia article I kept thinking this sounded familiar then started to remember bits of the movie.
You mean Taiwan
If we're doing recommendations, I'd say Double Star is Heinlein's best work of the 1950's, although it contains neither time travel nor implied incest.
> Pohl's "Gateway" (but not the sequels to Gateway)

Side note: am I the only one who loved "Gateway", when the Heechee and their ships and artifacts were mysterious and almost unknowable -- the whole "we think ships of size 5 or 1 are dangerous. Also these colors are probably good, and we think these are bad" -- but was disappointed when the Heechee finally made their appearance and lost some of their mystery?
Also, at least where I was, this was EVERYONE's life (no just solitary) for a year due to COVID. Only with no legal protections, all constitutional requirements waived, because, you know, emergency, and totally not just because the staff were lazy and this allowed them to do zero work.
Just to remind you all YouTube and Stadia product manager was/is Russian person in Silicon Valley.
It's a beautiful desktop! The animations are pretty janky though, at least in the online demo. This is a performance issue I've seen with Flutter before, so there might not be much you can do, unfortunately.
I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible to create an intentional environment where it could grow into any shape you want, of just about any human-scale size. Pehraps it would involve some carefully setup (and periodically adjusted) arrangement of lighting, climate control, and shade control.
The statement is true if you consider the universe to have a finite life time
If anything this illustrates how convulated and painful web development has become.

The design was that HTML was HTML and the client managed all the implementation details. Over time that got ruined by wildly different implementations, introducing non standard tags and so on.

I'm glad I moved away from it before mobile versions of sites became a neccessity.

Having to do all this work to cater for members that have a mobile device made by a specific manufacturer just emphasises that the whole thing has gone totally off the rails and completely awry. The ratio of actual information you read vs the amount of cruft that comes with it to display it is insane. And it's been a major issue for a long time. It was painful enough in the 'if !ie6'...era.

At what point does the ongoing cost of presenting and maintaining the information exceed the value of the information itself?

However, this is the reality of the online world we live in today. It also makes you appreciate the simplicity, usability and maintenance-ease of HN itself. You're already into the actual content only 3 lines in.
Off topic: anyone knows a libre RAR5 decompressor? I know PeaZip does it, but it has no CLI.
Like for instance, in the US there was once a large tex-mex restaurant chain called Chichi's (long since bankrupt). When I told my friend from Spain this, she was horrified.
The article suggests that quantum key distribution (QKD) is a replacement for a courier, but that is not true. Distributing an initial small secret key (which allows authenticity of the post-processing of the quantum measurements) is still required.

Also I think the added value of device-independence is overstated. While it does indeed prevent loss of security by faulty quantum hardware (even if constructed maliciously), there is still a lot of classical post-processing required. That device still needs to be trusted.
For example, when the device is outputting the shared key, it still needs to be trusted that it isn't also delivering that key back to Eve.
My point is _look how well it went for them in an incredibly non authoritarian regime_. Look how effectively they changed policy! Look how little personal cost it has had!

People like to act as though they'd be the person in the crowd who would rush a lone gunman first. Sure - you'll die, but the group will get the gunman and everything will be better. They definitely love to proclaim that some other bugger in that situation should be willing to take the bullet.

I, personally, hope I never have to make the decision between dying doing the right thing and living doing the easy thing. I've no intention of judging those who do.
Meta reportedly breaks up the 300-person team that was building a hybrid VR/AR
(lived in Russia until 2021, not authorative source of info)

All ISP providers are required to have black boxes installed on-site. These boxes can do traffic shaping (e.g. Twitter is degraded) and basic filtering based on IP addresses. I think, deep packet inspection is also feasible.

Config updates are pushed centrally to these boxes.

Self-managed VPNs still work.
The next is most likely Moldova, as it is not in NATO and has a large pro-Russian separatist movement, funded by Russia for the last 30 years.
Pro-Putin sentiment spreads online
The energy/heating situation in Europe is very tenuous. In the UK most everyone has gas central heating, and energy bills are skyrocketing. This is the most pressing domestic issue in the country right now, far above covid. Johnson is attempting to gain some popularity by putting on a tough face, but there is no chance he can survive if energy prices rise any further.

Here a staggering number of people die every winter due to not being able to afford heating[0] (something like 30-50k). I think it's not quite so bad in other EU countries but some (like Germany) are still extremely reliant on Russia for energy. Due to strategic shortsightedness, cutting off oil and gas exports is simply not an option.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/27/dying-...
Bit what if they didn't, and just changed some numbers in their database?
I'm a self-taught artist and count drawing as a skill of mine. I wouldn't say I'm a "natural" at it and would have definitely benefited from some structured learning.

Here are some of my recommendations/thoughts:

1. Bring a sketchbook with you everywhere and draw and observe what you see. There are shortcuts and techniques but like anything else it takes practice and time.

2. Humans are the most difficult because they are what we're experts at. We see and react to human faces from the day we are born so it's tricky to get right. Don't be discouraged.

3. Writing your name is drawing a picture. You've probably practiced it along with the alphabet numerous times. This is drawing in it's essence.

4. Learn what a core and cast shadow are if you don't already know. This will quickly improve your rendering.

5. Youtube. There is a higher level of skill in art then at any point in history and you have access to it. Just like any other field the knowledge passed down improves year after year.

6. Don't worry about the outcome. Drawing is intimate and doesn't need to be shown to anyone ever.

7. Drawing is a beautiful skill. You're creating something out of nothing.
> Youtube gets roughly 30,000 hours of content uploaded to it every hour. They

Clearly you wouldn't need to review all of it. You could use AI to identify things for review (as opposed to remove them), limit it to people with a number of downvotes or views. Hell, you could just pay people to handle the reviews/escalations/appeals.

Although, Google totally could afford it. It would cost less than 2.5% of their profits to pay US minimum wage to review every video.
Don't track bugs, fix them
This is probably a very unpopular opinion, but the lack of anonymity could dramatically improve people's behaviour on Facebook. If we can't touch the algorithm, which we know at various points has been adjusted to promote anger and manipulate emotions, what else can be done?

If the lack of anonymity on Facebook means people start deleting their Facebook accounts... this is also a good thing.
Is humanity supposed to stop reproducing? This is such a strange take. First worlders ruin the planet and then get exasperated that others continue to reproduce, knowing it may cause the first world more problems in the future
Where did I dismiss any of "his valid points"? I asked if they thought they might want to re-examine where their information comes from. How is that a dismissal of any point, valid or not?

> I detect a hint of bias might be present on your side from your username also...

What bias do you mean? I make cheese so I know a couple of things about how it's done.
The creative accounting was done by others. They say that Nostradamus "predicted" this because they choose what they read, when they read, and apply it to particular situations that fit, and not to others that don't, being aware of that or not. There is a bunch of cognitive biases around that, with fancy names like selection bias or Texas sharpshooter fallacy, to name a few.

It may not be for this case, I just point out that you should be aware of the possibility.
Skritter is pretty good for writing.
Show HN: iOS augmented reality auto-chess game based on Rock Paper Scissors
Compare it to the amount of mining that has been done to extract oil and gas and you’ll find it to be quite small.
Not sure why this comment is being downvoted, there is credible evidences that support this view, if not obvious from the US elctions
...I do not understand.. how it seems at all logical, that a company can broker something in exchange for a government's promise to not sue, and the bargaining chip being a one time payout.

I expect a percentage profit fund, and ongoing contribution to cleaning up their own mess.

This isn't contrition. This is cost of doing skeevy business.
+1

I feel I failed to communicate all aspects of my POV above - I definitely agree with this. Also yeah, this did get off topic and I apologize for pushing that even further just now.

In general, I try to advocate more for polite conversation and actual exchange/malleability of ideas - I just also expect for not everyone to agree with that, and to get mocked if I say something stupid.

The bigger thing is association - If I say something that someone else finds reprehensible, I bear them no ill will for trying to stop themselves from being associated with me, regardless of if that's through banning/mocking/public press conference[0]/a music video[0]/anything else.

[0] I'm glad I don't have a big enough platform to worry about these though.
It's not a test of their meta tag knowledge, it's a test of how well they can speak to concepts with some context. (For instance, I don't really do anything with Open Graph, and I don't know the meta tag off the top of my head, but I spotted it in this example)
It's way, way too late for that. The disinformation has already done its work, making it impossible for the West to act in a coordinated fashion. They don't need to continue to sow that division; it's self-sustaining. The sides are picked.

I'm sure that they want to continue it, to prepare for whatever comes next, and if it were offline for years things might change slightly. But it only needs the occasional nudge to keep it going, and there are plenty of channels for that.

Taking those sites down might feel like doing something in a situation where nothing can be done, but it doesn't really help at this point. It doesn't hurt, either, so you may as well, but the real lesson to learn was that this was a tactic that started over a decade ago and won't turn around quickly.