skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of heuristics. As many have mentioned, "a priori, don't believe anything on the internet" is a great starting point. You wouldn't trust a complete stranger as much as your best friend; almost everyone is a complete stranger on the internet, with the bonus of having a megaphone and opinions to spread. On the internet, no one knows you're a dog. But actually, most sources are humans, and most want to just share their perspective (as opposed to knowing the truth and deliberately lying), however flawed it might be.

Follow the money.

You used to be able to rely more on coincidence counting - meaning more sources saying the same thing means its more likely to be true. That has way less weight when one tweet gets shared, articles written about it, then people tweet the articles, and it comes full circle. You can manifest "facts" easily. And most news reports the same original source. But it's still useful if you can triangulate with multiple high-quality sources, or sources of conflicting persuasion. NBC reporting X is worth 1 unit. NBC, ABC, CNN reporting X is still just 1 unit. But CNN, Fox, Al Jazeera, and AP all reporting X is worth 2-3 units. There should be a logarithmic curve to your confidence. Any situation could flip on its head.

Think like a Bayesian. Every statement should have some prior probability of being correct, near 50/50. Increase the weight if the source is good, it jives with other things you are confident in; decrease it if the sources is bad or it doesn't sit right. De-rate "shocking" information - it tends to outspeed quality but nuanced info.

Knowing who to distrust is often more useful than knowing who to trust. It's often easier to infer as well. Create a mental "trustworthiness score". You start by identifying low quality reporting or straight up lies. This drops a sources' score. Other news from that source is also likely to be bad. Other sources that cluster near this source are also likely to be bad.

All media can be faked (manually or with AI), but at this time, deepfakes have some glaring limitations, and most fakes are in fact "cheapfakes" of the lowest possible effort. Why spend time photoshopping when you can just slap a misleading caption on an old photo?

The information firehose - tweets, shares, comments sections - can be useful for cutting edge info and building the big picture, but wielding it is an art. Most is gossip. Often the most popular/liked opinion is simply wrong, but also often, the truth is there deeper in the thread, but buried. Bullshitting is easy, but speaking facts is hard and time consuming. Look for "rich"/"deep" comments that show someone doing their homework.

I'm loathe to recommend any particular sources (you should develop your own), but I'm partial to the OSINT groups like Bellingcat. AP and Reuters are decent for "mainstream" media.
> So there is real-world demand for a properly secured e-mail system.

There is real-world demand for a properly secured messaging system (either real-time or asynchronous) that is as ubiquitous, as accessible, and as technologically neutral/decentralized as email.

I think you hit the nail on the head that if we could go back in time and email was encrypted from the start, it would be great, and there is a demand for that. But people keep trying to do that time travel by adding encryption after the fact, and like you I just don't think PGP works for that, I think it's throwing duck tape on top of a technology that is just not designed to handle it.

I'm not saying we should drop all email and move to something like Matrix, I still use email today for a lot of stuff. And I'm definitely not saying everyone should use Signal as a full email replacement (the phone number requirement and centralization problems make it unsuitable). But in the long, long term it would very likely be easier to drop email and move everyone everywhere to Matrix (or something else, it doesn't have to be an instant messenger), than it would be to try and retroactively make email encryption work well.
So values?
In addition, 'unsafe-inline' violates separation of content and presentation. I'm surprised that modern frameworks require it, when it should receive the same hate that table-based layouts and !important have.
Uhm, no? If the USSR never disbanded, hundreds of millions would still be suffering under a broken system instead of starting on the path to recovery a few decades ago.

The breakup was unquestionably a good thing for humanity.
I've been using Firefox for years, never faced this issue before... have you tried updating your browser?
"heard people say", "might have caused"

Good thing you're going with the science on this one, or you wouldn't be able to buy anything from anywhere.
The "pre-order" label is mostly due to supply chain delays. Currently there is a ~month lead time. I ordered mine back in late January and it is arriving this week.
> I get it if it's inconvenient or tiring to find another job. That's a looong way from "no choice".

Well, this tells me that you live in a bubble where you may not have any issues to find a new job.
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Finish that degree. With your math background, it won't be any problem to pick up the algorithm stuff you need to pass a whiteboard.
Are you actually arguing we should’ve let the Nazis be and slaughtering every non-Aryan in sight?
You couldn't get away with actual Fox News in Australia but Sky is as close as it comes.
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As a US based customer I will move away from you. You are potentially shutting down voices in Russia. Maybe an anti-putin blogger will just give up blogging because of this. You are destroying what remains of the free internet of the 90s.

And just to make it clear, I 100% agree with sanctions against Russia such as even shutting down things like Google Pay. Your action here is just dumb and not well thought.
They became easy to kill and fun after I got a bug-a-salt rifle. It is a salt gun for shooting flies and works quite well and is very entertaining at the same time. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FTVn6OhATaI&feature=emb_title
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The idiots on this twitter thread is depressing. I am all for free speech and privacy, but misleading "science" and racism, hate crimes is not what i want either.

Is there no balance?
In their defense, they said "read the docs" not "read the comments"... :D
I do agree with you. I'd go even further and say using vue helps build more maintainable websites in that it encapsulates components and thus keeps related things together. Also that it provides a separation of the data model and how it is displayed, so one can reason about both things separately.

But, all that are not things this article is about. They just name five specific things you meet regularly in web design and that don't need JS anymore. And in that case it's valid as the browser will generally do things better than you do yourself, be more accessible and integrate better into different platforms / OSes.
Lately I've begun to doubt every source of information that could possibly be shared because of financial, political, or misplaced altruistic motivations. So I've been ignoring as much as possible.

This is what the people sewing misinformation in the first place want. You can act their pawn and ignore the world around you, leading to making underinformed choices at the polls, at the newsstand or wherever, or you can trust your own bullshit detector.

It's hard to have this conversation when you just write off every source of information. Most of the established news sources get the facts correct, and from there, it's a matter of ignoring the analysis/opinion sections. AP and Reuters are two trustworthy sources that pretty much stick to the facts. Most of the top 25% of this chart is pretty good, TBH: https://adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/?utm_source=HomePage_St...

Also, keep in mind, humans write these stories. Getting one thing wrong here or there is not an indictment of that writer or their publication, if it's handled properly by printing a correct or retraction.
Australian living in Australia for most of my life. I've heard "used in anger" lots of times. I can't remember when, or by whom. But its certainly a thing I've heard people say here.
Nobody buys graphics cards to mine bitcoin so that can't be right.
I'd send an encrypted zip file.

Good idea but too complicated for the average Joe.

It could be made much easier by building all the necessary steps right into the email client. Just select "Encrypt attachments".

Most of the attempts to address the issue have missed the boat by trying to encrypt the entire email in some non-standardized way.
The similar people in my life are going to get bent out of shape regardless. They are the same people who end up saying, "if you aren't with me, you're part of the problem". IMO If no action is still an action, a reserved opinion is still an opinion.
It depends on the context. If you're writing in the persona of speaking for your company, first person plural may make more sense than singular. Depending on the circumstances one or the other can feel more appropriate.
I watch both western and eastern media because I don't trust either. By putting together information from both sides, I try to get an objective point of view.

Anyway I must say, the west has put out many more lies for what I've seen so far.
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Ok, but surely it’s a good thing when frameworks are intuitive?
Or, alternatively that once in NATO that he could take over the Baltics without opposition having already stationed troops there as part of the NATO taskforce. There were plenty of really good reasons not to want Russia in NATO at the time.
>Lately I've begun to doubt every source of information that could possibly be shared because of financial, political, or misplaced altruistic motivations.

Good. Sorting out the objective truth of a situation has always been hard. The internet is not some sort of magical genie that changes this inescapable fact.

The biggest problem comes from your own biases. If people are involved you will end up with a bunch of objective truths, many at odds with one another. You have to understand these truths in superposition.
"Who the fuck cares what US did/does" that is the exact mentality that get us in this kind of situations.
I did not say Russia can, nobody should be able to do that.
I'm just saying that the next time US warmongers and plans to destroy another country, that we in the "west" should sound the same outcry we are doing now.
Your device is probably pwned. But go ahead and blame Google. I love how people just ignore these warnings.
RIPE doesn't really have the power to withdraw assigned IPs, the Russian ISPs can just keep announcing them. Perhaps they could break their RPKI data so their prefixes would be dropped as invalid by those checking signatures (I would consider this a misuse of RPKI), but they would still mostly work.
How? Nvidia's lawyers will be all over that shit. Not AMD and no respectable OSS devs will touch it, nor will GitHub or any other reputable platform host it. It's legally radioactive.

Nintendo's HDL and source code also leaked from a hack a couple of years ago but given how litigious Nintendo is, nothing came out of it despite everyone expecting some emulators to pop op.
There is more to it than the libraries both companies create. FB has facilitated various societal issues (surveillance advertising, conspiracy theory spreading/radicalization, depression in younger users, etc.), but Apple for the most part just builds products people enjoy.

To some (most?) the software projects produced are a secondary consideration.
Russian defence ministry warns Kyiv residents to leave
Well, yes it is obviously different, but it is a weak proof for impossibly of change via protest.
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The "neo-stoic" crowd would tell you to reduce your circle of interest as closely as possible to your circle of control.

In many situation, this means realizing that you have little control most things (which is depressing), and then take the logical step of not following the news altogether.

This becomes a lot trickier when the news is in you "center of concern" (I'm trying to find the best translation for "center of emmerdement".)

For example, regarding COVID-19: you have zero effect on whether the next strain of the virus will mutate in the bloodstream of some farraway foreigner, even if they were lucky enough to get all the vaccines and treatments and everything.

Yet, when the variant will hit, you'll be hit too, and you'll get the restrictions and lockdowns, and anti-restrictions protests, and anti-vaxxers point of view, and fringe medical advice that might not end up being fringy at all, etc...

Should you care ? Should you not care ?

Also, elections. We have the luxury of letting candidates explain the same world in completely opposite terms - and we have to choose which one is less wrong. Or less lying.

In the end, I suppose the only thing in your control is to let time expose the most blatant liars, avoid trusting them too much ; and, most importantly, DO NOT LIE TOO MUCH yoursefl.

This might involves keeping eyes opened, eyebrows raised, and mouth shut. Not a very popular stance - but, hey, they're neo-stoicians, not tiktok influencers.
Check the URL and check the lock icon. If you're feeling extra paranoid, you can also click the log to get more information on the security certificate to confirm it's the certificate belonging to the provider.
Ukraine was not going to join NATO for the foreseeable future. Russia not only wants Ukraine to stay out of NATO but of the European Union. Putin's speeches make clear that he does not want Ukraine to be an independent country. NATO expansion upsets some Russians but also greatly raises the cost of Russia invading NATO members compared to a relatively unarmed country such as Ukraine that is outside military alliances.
Cool project. There is lots of interesting work going on around bridging the gap between notebook analysis and production. I think the SQL generator is pretty useful there.

How syntactically different is `rql.dataset` object from a `pandas.dataframe`? Would it also be possible to have your .sql() function translate existing pandas operations to sql?
Since you supposedly know something about this topic, please contribute it.
Can the nouveau project make use of this without ending in legal hot water?
I’ll riff on that (pun intended). The api allows the ability to see the position and change of position of the crank. Moving the crank to the correct position and doing. A rhythm game could very well show moves like rotate forwards twice. Half rotate back. Etc. And you have to perform moves within a certain range of that. That could be a fun one indeed :D
is there any project (probably should be email server) which would use pubkey hash (secp256k1) as identity?

example: `0x9be5d213245be984c0fb806a1d92c03a05448a4d@example.com`

It would still accept SMTP as backward compatibility and also implement e2e protocol without leaking metadata on side. It could implement other endless cool stuff on top of that (roaming with notifying addresses that you moved to new @example2.com. Send some crypto for better ranking in inbox as optional spam protection.

i did Ask HN about the idea few weeks ago but it did not get traction but there were people who liked idea and dm me in tg/discord, feels like this might be good place to resubmit it.
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I've been reading about the Russian Revolution lately, and one feature of radical revolutionary thought has stuck with me: they believe that changing the environment in which people live will create a new type of person, the "New Soviet Man", or whatever name they give the particular flavor of new man their ideology will free humanity to become. This is in contrast to the conservative and reactionary idea of humanity, where there is a human nature that is constant, and the best a new environment can offer them is a different way to express their essential humanity, with all its typical virtues and failings. I personally think history bears out the latter view pretty well, but even if you don't find either convinces you, it's a valuable way to view the aspirations of the two schools of thought.
Is that true even if you only drive a relative small amount is miles per year? And how do you know that? Building car takes a lot of energy and uses irreplaceable resources.
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HN comments often link to outline.com to read articles behind a paywall. Or to read annotatable, ad-free versions.

Today I noticed I could no longer reach it. dig shows me there is no IP associated, so it might just be a configuration error. But since I can imagine they, and their hoster (AWS?) will often get DMCA-takedown requests, I can imagine them being thrown off the web.

Has anything happened recently?
U2F support was one of the reasons why I picked Tutanota. It's similar to Proton, but with Proton I really missed U2F and they've promised it for ages...
I find it quite frustrating and now only read news from really established sources, no more online news from smaller or niche outlets. Since quite some time I also avoid websites that had a lot of trolling. (Like the German Heise.de) On the other hand when I see completely outrageous comments I sometimes take the time and contradict them. FWIW from all the feed-like platforms, Reddit seems to keep up quite well these days
I also use a .in in the US and the only delivery issues I have is when trying to give someone my email address over the phone.

That said, I probably receive >>100x as many emails as I send so I'm not sure I can really say I've tested sending emails particularly thoroughly.
my approach is the opposite ... attack the most difficult aspect of the challenge first ... get this working using the normal divide and conquer approach ... this often requires totally different inputs and outputs since its the inner core ... then work outward solving related issues until you read the outermost inputs and outputs

to me its critical to nail the hardest part first since if that portion cannot be solved or needs a radical rethink it will often require entirely new surrounding logic
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If your goal is to get a feel for all of the different spin/propaganda that are out there, then this maybe is a good strategy.

If your goal is to get an accurate picture of events, I think focusing on reputable news sources is a much better strategy.
would not < details > tag[1] solve it?

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/de...
Yep, I tried the animation in mobile safari and mobile brave. Neither browser animated it and in brave it was a black blob with colored lines on it's edges.
This is absolutely right. It will take time for the truth to filter out of all the fake information being spread out there. The best we can do as rational individuals is to wait for a few weeks before jumping to conclusions. This obviously doesn't mean to ignore the situation, providing help to civilians is still something that should be done right away.
I've taken a minute to read through your other comments after referring people to state run propaganda on this one, and it's a whole lot of misinformation about the war. I have my own thoughts on your account origin but either way I hope hn has some antibodies against this.
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Commits are not usually floating but are very commonly in more than one branch.
Cache sizes can be gotten programatically. I don't see that as an impediment. Would need to be benchmarked of course to see how that affects performance.
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Most armor is subject to ITAR, you can't just send it to another country. You could send a plate carrier and helmet without running into ITAR problems, have them source ballistic plates locally.

Another thought, there are lots of other basics these guys need right now that most people are probably overlooking. Eye and ear protection are important, so are good boots and gloves. Also socks, send lots of socks.
Reddit has quarantined r/Russia subreddit due to misinformation
Austrailian Sky News != UK Sky News

Sky, BBC (especially BBC World) and ITN (especially Channel 4) are all pretty good in the UK
So if you think a non-neutral stance would've been warranted in those cases, do you also support one now?
Try this one: https://undocs.org/A/HRC/41/G/17

UN representatives didn't characterize the situation as a genocide.

Following the 'forced sterilization' link from the article you linked brought me to this one: https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-we...

In there, they say frame it as an attack on minorities, but then they describe it as being applicable to people who already have 3 or more children. They just finished up a 1 child policy for the entire country and the Han majority are still reproducing below replacement levels.

There is plenty to disagree with about their policies, but it's not genocide.
Yes... I agree that can work....

But look at it from the banks perspective. If they email you and ask for you to log in the bank can see who you are, and capture any info in case of fraud.

If they sent it as a secure message, they cannot capture any info on who saw it... They just know it was sent.
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I go all https://xkcd.com/386/
I don’t care if you’re associated with them. I do want people to see them for what they’re doing.

But you also brought this on by using their propaganda, perhaps in an attempt to promote them or perhaps not.
I did miss it in the heat of the moment. You’re right.
The correct decision, and the same should have applied to SWIFT.

It's one thing for countries to ban their citizens, banks, etc from accessing Russia and vice versa, and putting infrastructure in place to enforce that.

It's something else to cut Russia off from global communication networks. Now, more than ever, we need to communicate.

If you (ab)use global networks (irrespective of where they are domiciled) as political tools, the victims of that will strive to create their own networks so that they have freedom, and the value of the existing network is diminished.
That’s the timing harness for the more advanced implementations, I think.
if anything - it makes it worse. The code is untouchable for any serious company or even open source. If you need references see what WinNT/XP code leaks did to Wine project.
The solution is to upgrade to rsync.
Is this the end for git-send-email through Google infra?
There is some evidence that the 'boys sent out to die' were told they were going on a training exercise.
Make the leap before you're pushed!
SWIFT transitioned from X.25 to IP ~ 10 years ago, so they have made changes to keep up with technology. The SWIFT network is now a private IP network. Given the value of transactions that move across the SWIFT network daily, I think that many participants feel more comfortable with the added security that comes with a private network.
This is my understanding, but I just use hooks, don't know the implementation details. Pure react functions receive props and render output. Each time the component is rendered (basically a function call), it reads the props and spits out some DOM nodes (simplified). But you loose the ability to have lifecycle events.
So they invented a mechanism that keeps some hidden state that's tracked for us behind the scenes, and we can then "hook" into that lifecycle state.

The main issue is that it's not a native language construct, but a mini-dsl sort of so you need to have this state machine in mind even thought it's implicit and hidden from you.

Instead of reading the docs, you might want to search online how to write hooks from scratch. It's one of those concepts that needs to click.