skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this scale, if the platform was censoring or pushing a narrative and it was exposed, people would simply upload those same videos to a different platform.

The common idea is to assume that “the masses” move slowly, but the reality is that when properly motivated everyone wakes up early and changes technology in a matter of hours. Many of them bringing their followers with them with only the last of the followers being the ones moving slowly.
If you're using compression, and you have more than one core, you should consider trying pbzip2 - it's parallel http://compression.ca/pbzip2/

7zip may also do something similar, but it may depend on the archive type it's creating.
> the implicit point was obviously partisan

No, it was not. Partisan would be asking if they were going to switch to a specific different party. I asked if they re-thought their affiliation.

> As for Russian propaganda, that isn't remotely representative of the forum.

I never claimed it was, just that it has increased the past two weeks without much moderation.

> the bias that causes internet users to feel that other commenters are foreign agents, astroturfers, spies, shills, bots, etc.

Another thing I never claimed.

All of these assumptions sound like they may be an example of the Illusion of Asymmetric Insight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_asymmetric_insight). Is that how this works?
And gain what exactly?

You could argue that he acted on principle and went against the US govt resulting in him being "imprisoned" in Russia and unable to return home. In the end, he got nothing out of it. US gov't still conducts mass surveillance and your average consumer doesn't have much qualms about giving their data to corporations that can then sell it to the gov't.

There was a segment where John Oliver met with Snowden in Russia. Oliver went around in NYC asking people about Snowden and most people didn't even recognize his name. Tbh, I wouldn't blame him for not wanting to go to prison just to be a hero to a bunch of random people that didn't care the first time around.
Take a look at the map. Chernobyl sits right on the border of Belarus, 130km to Kyiv on the western side of Dnieper river.

They didn't take Chernobyl to take the reactor, they took it because it is extremely strategic if the goal is to assault Kyiv.
Twitter, Facebook and Google - reliable allies of evil everywhere in the world.

I mean we knew that, but now it's like they're competing who is worse.
> Really, how much defensive value does this have for Ukraine?

No defensive or tactical advantage whatsoever.

It just means that they have nothing to fight with. Internet field marshals that are doing last minute squeaking towards Russia. They are at best reactionary attacks which are predictable and easily mitigated against.
>the Taliban and IS dragged out the conflict in the middle east for 20 years

At what cost? America and their allies would have left a long time ago without the Taliban.
Every patent I found when I googled the patent class above is really talking about a product that exists.

I think there's a very good chance that this device is close to market.
Wikipedia has entire section on Quetzalcoatlus and hypotheses around if and hoe it could fly. The consensus seems to be that it’s possible (with no mention of a denser atmosphere as a precondition or even a factor) just depending on how the musculature is modeled around its skeleton.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus#Flight
Oppressive regimes decide what you can watch and megacorps decide if you are allowed to downvote.

"It's automated" has become the new "it's policy," the go-to excuse for doing evil and pretending it's not a choice.
I like to say Duolingo is a slow way to learn a language, but it's infinitely faster than not learning it at all.

The main benefit of Duolingo is the streak. Gotta keep the streak going, so I use it every single day.

Is it working? I can read French news articles for the most part, filling in the blanks from context. I have trouble listening at normal talking speeds to French youtube videos. For speaking, I'm sure I could order a croissant and get a hotel room, but beyond that...

Still, it's much better than looking for perfection and learning nothing.
More generally there are conflicts such as that in Northern Ireland where from my point of view there is not a wrong or a right side but if people were fundraising for either the IRA or Unionist fighters that would be a bad thing.

I remember a controversy on a now-defunct crowdfounding platform that was intended to support open source software where one of the top recipients was someone who was raising money for a divorce lawsuit.

On one hand I can understand that somebody might not do that but from working at a mediation center that did a lot of parenting plans I learned to be very skeptical of what anybody says about a divorce. That is, frequently both partners are going to tell a story that is full of half-truths. People in a situation like that can go to a mediation and often make decisions they are happy with in the long term, but if you try to put together a consistent story of what happened you usually can't. Some people might be inclined to believe the person they are closer to, or some people might tend to sympathize with a man or with a women (though it might be two of the same these days), but I learned not to even try to make a model of "what happened" because its inevitably going to be distorted.

Some people might see a relationship between the personal and political and believe they are supporting some wider cause by crowdfunding a divorce but I don't feel entirely comfortable with people crowdfunding personal antagonisms any more than I am with people crowdfunding armed conflicts.
If you have forced hot water heating, it's more difficult.
Why? I understood the audio to be proof that it is a Gray code?
What other forces? The West isn't going to intervene directly.
Isn't YT moderation outsourced? The infiltrators might just be overzealous Russian nationals in one of those cubicle farms.
Does this apply to embedded videos too? Imagine reading a news article during lunch at work and getting your corporate account kicked!
After a certain point, you need to talk with a human. I can't praise Chatterbug enough.
Ask HN: Is Clubhouse Dead?
What the hell?!?!
On the same vein, Zynaddsubfx used to have that on its website: "Please don't use this program to make music that is against God and Jesus Christ. Realize that the only way to the Salvation is Jesus Christ. Please don't lose this chance and don't make others to lose it!"
The 80% lifetime chance of being a victim of a crime sounds about right. How many people can say they've never had some sort of property stolen?

The 40% lifetime injury chance sounds a little high. I wouldn't be surprised if it was around 25% though. Obviously this is all anecdotal.
Ask HN: Is Kubernetes Hype Over?
> The invasion is itself a war crime ( crimes against peace)

Technically, “war crimes”, “crimes against peace” and “crimes against humanity” are distinct categories (though the second two are often distinguished only by whether or not they occur in the context of a war; e.g., genocide is either a war crime or a crime against humanity, depending on context).

Aggression is a crime against peace, not a war crime.

> the indiscriminate bombing of civilian buildings as can be seen from numerous videos

Those would be war crimes, though videos of the impacts are generally only suggestive evidence of indiscriminate (or, worse, intentional) targeting.
I never understood the whole felon thing, if that is allowed discrimination outside certain roles how can those people ever be expected back to society? Ofc, they are going to do more crime if it is their only realistic option for reasonable income.
Jordan Peterson and Curt Jaimungal: God and Science
I wanted to share my thoughts and what I have learned from watching Prof. Peterson’s conversation with Curt Jaimungal on The Jordan Peterson Podcast.
The two gentlemen articulately expanded their ideas on the nature of reality, god, human perception, and truth.
I don't know how the tests are structured and therefore what those levels mean in practice, but simply from the description on Wikipedia[1] I'd consider B2 quite enough of an achievement when it comes to learning a language:

Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in their field of specialisation.
Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party.
Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_R... (also linked in the article)
If that were the case, then deleting the videos would be sufficient. Banning or deleting accounts for watching these streams makes no sense at all.
I understand that JSON supporting SQL databases struggle to index and search through JSON. I've had a much better time querying JSON objects from Mongo than Postgres.
Interesting that the warez scene adopted RAR as the standard for packaging up pirated works. The alternatives like 7z save more bytes, yet RAR somehow became the winner. Anyone know why?
> And then they now moved to integrate the new Mexico into their military alliance

But this didn’t happen! Ukraine did not join NATO.

As for the John McCain bits, you ask whether it would be in the US’s interests to invade Mexico if Putin went and gave a pro-authoritarian speech there? Of course not! We would be fucking insane to do that.
Some compression formats are actually designed for data archival and compression. Rar is one such format. One of the early use cases was data archival onto long term storage mediums such as tape. As such, it has built in parity which means you can recover partially corrupted archives. It can also do things like split the archive up over many smaller files. Again, because this sort of thing was needed for backing up to tape, floppy, etc in the late 90s/early 2ks.
Here in Europe we hope that the Russian people will make this right, but Putin has grown so strong that even the old Politburo can not stop him.

And i think Ukraine has regrets about removing nuclear weapons some 30 years ago:

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082124528/ukraine-russia-put...

Though I'm glad that we have less nuclear weapons overall.

But this looks more and more like Putins way of creating a legacy or at the very least grabbing some land from Ukraine, to which Russia has no claim.
What is the alternative to solitary confinement?

There are some people who are a persistent threat and menace to others. There are 3 ways that society has dealt with them:

Execution

Banishment

Imprisonment

We are trying to do away with execution, so that is not a real alternative. Banishment really doesn't work in the modern, connected world. That leaves imprisonment. However, within prison, you also have a society, and then the question becomes, how do you deal with people who are a threat and menace to other prisoners and guards. Again you end up with the 3 options. Following through, you eventually end up with either solitary confinement or execution as the solution to people who are a persistent threat and menace to others.

Is solitary confinement over used? Yes. But I have not heard a really good alternative.
I think larger interesting problem here is possibility of those huge corporations taking sides in wars.
That's a weird mantra, molex to sata is perfectly fine.
How would a bot know to report you? How could it tell you watched a livestream?
Tangentially, if you appreciate being able to read raw, unfiltered OSINT like OP (@OAlexanderDK) dug up, you'd be interested to know Twitter mistakenly suspended his account twice in the past three days [0] -- one among a large number of legitimate OSINT people covering Ukraine. The existence of this kind of HN thread is fragile.

You can also read Twitter Site Integrity's apology and response [1], or independent reporting about this [2].

[0] https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1496513006657839108

[1] https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/1496544199478583297

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/5b23938b-49b8-426f-97af-640ba40c9... ("Twitter admits it mistakenly removed Ukraine open-source intelligence accounts")
It was the opposite. Putin asked but the west didn't make a roadmap for it. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-s...
Frontline did an episode on solitary. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/solitary-nation/ I agree, torture is the only word that accurately describes what these people go through.
Nobody likes to admit it, but yeah. It all boils down to might makes right; if you revolt or otherwise cause a ruckus and win then it becomes the right path of history - see: USA, etc.
Goldman Sachs’ operations chief quits for crypto exchange Coinbase
IMO this is down to two things:

1) “Wtf, why’s your dog laying on a nail??” “It doesn’t hurt enough yet”
2) YouTube is paying people enough that they make a good living and questioning the policies means potentially risking their bills not getting paid.
And you, my dear pister, are waffling on the freedom to self-organize, and falling into the Kissinger trap.

Soft power; Sickening thing. Once you have it you're responsible for everything. In this case, the U.S. trying to once again get entangled in another spat.

Once you start binning which transactions are really appropriate to happen, you're de-facto making policy.
Northern Ireland has never looked so close to reunification and that is largely because the republicans renounced their violence.
Yes, because it required 20 years of active occupation, numerous offensives, and trillions of dollars and it's unlikely that the result will last.

While we fucked around in the middle east, Russia regained strength and China emerged as a peer world power. Does anyone want to bet that Iraq or Afghanistan will remain our loyal ally in this new multipolar world?

We're now $30T in debt with a 125% debt-to-GDP ratio. All of our allies are completely emasculated by 70+ years of U.S. hegemony. And no one has an appetite for war on ideological grounds when we lied about all the past wars and protestors are getting trampled by horses and un-personed from the financial system without due process in a 'liberal' western democracy.

Strategically speaking, you can win a battle but lose the war. It was an absolute loss from that perspective.
I actually agree that it's an odd theory, but I do not see how someone would have a "source" for this. Did you mean to ask for "evidence" or "proof"?
You're treating an aggressive war in Europe like a minor calamity. It is an obvious responsibility of the state to help people pay for substitute heating and ease the negative impact of conflicts like that. In the worst case, even the military could step in. Helping citizens in times of conflict is one of the primary functions of governments and state institutions. It's much better to face these kind of negative consequences now than to embolden a dictator and later wonder why you sit in a bunker while Latvia or Poland is overrun. Just because this is not an armed conflict (yet) does not mean it should be treated lightly.
I'm talking as a whole. So yes, there are cases where it's not relational but on average most data is relational. A user has many projects. Those projects have many tasks. This is very common to most web-based software used today. Think of all the tools out there that work perfectly with this structure.

Most of our data isn't files, docs, directories. It's data given to us by our users or generated by our own processes. I'm not getting the reference to CSVs and word docs.

Yes, we store uploaded files but the metadata is stored in the database in a row that has some identifier that links to the directory where the file is stored. That works fine. We don't need a document database.
Yeah, sad to see this nonsense from a project I have a lot of respect for. They could just use bittorrent, if distribution were the issue.
And you can poke at any window in the system with WinSpy++, the original DOM inspector from before devtools were cool
Great job arguing something I already agree about and similarly abhor while also completely missing the point: I specifically said “necessarily.”

We have family friends that provide eggs and milk from their free range chickens and cows and that’s certainly not how they do it. Your fight is with greed enabled by capitalism leading to these animal abuses, not people who want to eat/drink their eggs or dairy.
OP made out like snowden is making a choice to be in Russia. He’s not. And if the US government would have wanted to resolve this situation they could have over the years. They’ve chosen to basically exile Snowden.

Snowden wanted to go to Ecuador. It’s ridiculous to suggest he’s made a choice to be in Russia or support Russia.

Then again that’s literally what MSNBC, CNN and probably Fox have been saying for almost 10 years to I’m not surprised many have been brainwashed.
C is valuable because you shoot yourself in the foot over and over. Once you’ve dealt with use-after-frees, segfaults, memory corruption, then you will really appreciate what Rust does for you. Sure, you can learn Rust up front, but I on,y appreciated it after I had spent some time acquainting myself firsthand with the problems it’s trying to solve. Just my opinion though—Rust is a ton of fun.
Besides autoplay being evil, sounds like the GDPR-compliant pages have it right. Your data is only sent to YT after your approval.
All reactors at Chernobyl have been shutdown since 2000. I have been amazed lately at how many people are unaware of this and think Chernobyl is still an operating nuclear power plant.
For this to work, your hypothetical man has to see that country as "his tribe" in the first place. I think a lot of people don't, and basically just see their own family as their tribe.
First because you're just "downing" the mouthpiece for as long as you can keep the DDOS running, which is during a limited amount of time. Secondly because there are better targets than obvious propaganda. Thirdly because even if they spread propaganda, can't be trusted and just echoes the sentiment of the Russian government, it's useful to read every side of the events, even if you don't agree or trust what they are saying.
You’ve certainly learned something, but at the level of commitment it’s going to be less than if you put more time into it (yes I’m captain obvious here).

One thing that you will notice is that even if you can’t utilize it fluidly now, if you were to jump into more immersive methods now, you’ll realize that it’s all there under the surface - you’ll very likely make very rapid progress.
His original goal was to go to Ecuador for asylum. His passport was revoked while he was waiting for his connecting flight in Russia, ending up with him stuck there[0]. His end-goal was never to end up in Russia.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Russia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-s...

He tried it 20 years ago but it didn't happen. Anyhow there was a thread yesterday based on a paper by an academic on how losing Ukraine is the West's fault (in a purely pragmatic sense, not as a moral judgment).

Russia wanted closer ties to the West, then the Color Revolutions happened, then 2008, then 2014, and now we're here.
I'd be willing to wager money this is a cyber operation by a nation state weaponizing YT's automated systems.
The problem with a 'runaway' AI is that it's no longer under our control, unless we program in control mechanisms or kill switches that shut off a runaway AI before it causes serious damage. This is very important.
Google/Facebook aren't getting paid for these products. You are not supporting them by just using their compression tools.
Alternate link to article: https://outline.com/GpZnXy
> Respect to your parents actively fighting during the revolution.

Is incompatible with the rest of your comment.
Yeah, that's reasonable. It's incredibly good, but Duolingo alone isn't enough to become fluent. As a way to introduce yourself to a language it's brilliant though.
This is a bit of a digression, but since this topic attracted a lot of eyes interested in Postgres and databases…

Is there any hope of improvements to database backup (dump) functionality of Postgres? Coming from SQL Server (and it seems to me that there’s not a lot of people who have experience with both) - I was really taken by surprise how badly performant Postgres dumps are in terms of both backup and restore speed, as well as backup size of similarly sized databases.
The most interesting thing about this, is that the people that run big tech are all anti-Russia. They're in the Biden | Obama | Hillary camp, not the perceived Trump | Putin camp philosophically (the far left regards Trump and Putin as being aligned and view that as one connected political union; and they view themselves as being specifically on the other side of that; the people in charge of Twitter, Facebook, Google are all far left and very anti-Trump | Putin).

Big tech more likely wants to censor the Kremlin than the pro Ukraine wing. Which leads me to believe this is YouTube getting trapped in its own algorithmic approach to moderation, until or unless they can manually intervene.
I’m not saying that remote work can’t be effective (companies like Gitlab and others show that it can be) but what employees want and what companies want are not necessarily in any way related.
It was literally always in my unedited original post.

"It's a stretch" <- means not true
Bimodem, baby! Upload AND download simultaneously!
It can be very hard to perceive the progress you’ve made if you aren’t actually putting it into practice.

Speaking from personal experience, if you’ve actually put in substantial time in the last year, you’ll find that a lot of that practice will demonstrate itself over the course of a few conversation classes with a teacher.
I used to do something similarly complex to the OP with ssh and --link-dest to make it share inodes so I could easily keep N days of backups with file level deduplication [1].

Then I moved to Borg and haven't looked back. It does the same end goal in a better way, is way faster, and easier to work with overall [2].

[1]: https://nuxx.net/blog/2009/12/06/time-machine-for-freebsd/
[2]: https://nuxx.net/blog/2019/11/10/using-borg-for-backing-up-n...
> 2/19: Started lessons on Italki, roughly once a week

For anyone hoping to learn a language I think this step is the key. Probably worth the same as doing everything else on the list put together. 2 hours a week will probably get you from A1 to B1 in 3-6 months

(Italki are 1 on 1 language classes)
That's an interesting take. Do you have any personal experience with those types of victimization and their impacts? You also say "we". Do the other members of the group share the same position?