skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who is poorly informed on the subject, I already learned to not make such definitive statements. Before russian invasion I heard a lot of opinions that Russia will not attack Ukraine, as it makes no logical sense or because true invasions are surprise attacks, and yet the reality verified this kind of thinking.

Now we hear how sanctions will not change russian opinions, but it seems these already started to change, as some cracks appear: some politicians speak against war, some oligarchs criticize putin, some Russians are also migrating to Finland [1], as well as a protest started in Nizhnekamsk [2].

This is not to say that you're entirely wrong, it indeed is very hard to convince someone as heavily indoctrinated as russian nation, but I think it is possible.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pHglSTvgbI
[2] https://twitter.com/ilya_shepelin/status/1500073553055657986...
One way to help Ukranians directly
Book an Airbnb anywhere in Ukraine. Let the host know you are not coming and that you are using the booking to help financially. Ask them to help others.

http://occupykyiv.com
We got heat-shock proteins, they can be activated by IR light or substances such as sulforaphane. Genetically modified mice, with no heat-shock proteins, die faster when infected with certain prions.
What motivation does Google have to falsify their Trends data? If anything, I think this is more valuable than anecdotal evidence. It's a relatively trustworthy source delivering the same data they always have, and letting you draw the conclusions.
it's very counter intuitive, there's so much information that we cannot know anything (for certain)

trust is at an all time low and getting lower
Reading this thread, it’s funny how universally identified with wizards software engineers are.

It’s not just the arcane knowledge and elaborate incantations. I actually think musicians and athletes possess more of this type of ability. Movie magic to me seems to involve timing and physicality.

I think the real connection is that programming truly is a generalizable tool. A wizard can apply magic to all kinds of general situations. Similarly, a programmer can apply computation generally. A musician can make magical, mind-blowing music but they can’t use music to make a dishwasher.
It has no conscience, just like the U.S.
I don't trust the conclusions I draw. The average person is very bad at coming up with explanations, and the pandemic misinformation has illustrated this.

"If you die with COVID they put you down as having died from COVID, therefore they're trying to inflate the numbers" is an explanation. If you aren't good at coming up with multiple alternatives and selecting the best one, you're likely to select the one that fits, or the one someone already gave you, and not the real one.
I bet he meant the small ones instead of major distros i.e. Red Hat/Fedora, Ubuntu, SUSE.
I shared my life with one for several years but I'm no expert in international relations either.. What would I do? I would assign this diplomatic task to.. Trump. He did it before (North Korea), he could make it again. The problem is that his success would frighten some much more than the war does.
It is immoral and asshole’ish of you to waste my time and resources (bandwidth, physical space etc.) without my consent.

Tell me: Why is “spam” considered undesirable? Would you disable the spam filter of your email etc.?

All advertisement is spam, just that the ads we see have paid to be not counted as spam.
Shiny and Dash are web frameworks for coding data dashboards. With GenieCloud there is no need to code: with the visual UI builder you can create powerful data dashboards (that automatically work on mobile and desktop) by draging-and-dropping rich UI elements like dropdowns, sliders, plots, etc to create data apps in minutes.
Right, because it's better to trust that analysis to FaceBook. Why they could even pop-up something suggesting you seek help.
I managed to escape the country yesterday, had to flight to Egypt of all places, because ALL (even business) tickets were sold out.
The recent news is that starting March 6 all international flights are suspended, the trap has closed.

The disheartening thing is that even if you never supported Putin, other countries treat you as enemy.

I am at Georgia now and banks refuse to open bank accounts to Russians, and I need one to continue working as a remote dev for US companies. Older generation (who are pro-Russian) suggested being careful around young people as they may be hostile to Russians, even those who are running away from Putin.

A lot of my IT friends have fled the country, almost everyone who could. My heart is bleeding thinking of friends who wanted to leave on March 9, not sure what they can do now.
Building a web app with no framework
I don’t get why even people who know all the facts still make a big deal about that incident. People always assume that he was attacking an actual rescuer (they weren’t) for criticizing the sub (that wasn’t it), that musk did it for PR (he was requested to do so) and that the person attacked didn’t initiate the conflict in the first place (he did). Was Musk justified, no, was it a big deal, also no.
Again, semantics. One side doesn't have a proxy, the other does. Should we really be splitting hairs on the correct definition?
Spectrum of Reproducibility
Yeah, should work even with greedy matching as it just does the same checks but in reverse order.
Well considering CATL is launching commercial sodium-ion batteries.
I would tend to think otherwise.

There's also other interesting investments in air breathing cathode batteries.
It's incredible how much people can talk about capitalism without mentioning it. It's all about the trends in capital, but never about the general mode of capital. Which i do get to some extent. It does make sense to talk about trends, like advertising swallowing up all aspects of media, but critique can never be made on trends alone. Trends don't dictate processes, trends are the result of processes. If you look to explain this from the bottom up you'll hit a wall of individual decision making. But from the top down you see the influence behind those decisions, it's an economic choice that is necessitated to continue the process of capitalist accumulation in a corporation, country or even market.

It's not only crypto or advertising it's the process of capital using technologies to radically transform its production process in search of more profits. Be it by established corporations or groups of crypto miners. This mode of production will do this to any technology that can advanced the generation of capital. This is the core of capitalism, the revolutionizing of production, not for humanities sake, but for profits sake.

To settle on a single manifestation of this mode as its cause is to wear something like horse blinders and all conversations on the topic will be as narrow as the topic you want to hate on the most. And capital will keep chugging and keep using technology for its own sake at everyone's expense.
This is what russian trolls want.

So much uncertainty, that you don’t belive anything.

Not even truth.
That's what I'm saying: I maintain a complex web app that is built with PHP-templated HTML with jQuery sprinkled in as needed to make things more interactive. It's not perfect, but it's a far cry from the nightmare that people always seem to imagine when they think of "the jQuery days".

Would I use jQuery if I redid it today? No. But this app does prove to me that progressively-enhanced HTML is a valid path to an app today, it doesn't need to be an SPA.
This is such a fun channel, and it’s been great to see him getting into mycology. Here’s another one with Alan (and the dogs) in a coastal redwood forest.

https://youtu.be/apTVau6jplk

He’s also had a few mushroom guys on his podcast now, for instance ep. 97: How do fungi bang (and evolve)? Fungal reproduction is…weird.
maybe someone else is falsifying google trends ?
If you have genuine issues with any part of the existing rating in WP:RSP, it's entirely appropriate to raise that on the talk page. "I think this source should be ranked higher/lower than it currently is, and here's evidence" is a valid concern. Wikipedians are well aware that verifiability standards may reinforce biases in article coverage, and some have even proposed (though not very seriously) that doing away with verifiability altogether may be better than the alternative of being left with a systemically biased encyclopedia.
> the extreme selectivity in sources somehow just... disappear

Unimportant articles will draw a different crowd than more important articles. Those different groups will have different standards for sources and tone/bias.

What changes have you made to that article that were rejected / rolled back? How long have you been making edits to it?
No DATA statements in ZX81 BASIC though! That came in with the Spectrum.
You stated:

> Of course there's some point where most people agree that a classification makes sense, because there's a "well d'uh" kind of difference, like the chicken and the velociraptor. At the other extreme you'd classify every individual, because they're all unique. People will endlessly argue where to draw this line. There just is no answer to the question how far we should go.
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> The problem is that nobody can meaningfully draw a line.

Your statement makes no sense. Anyone can draw a line between a chicken and a velociraptor. Anyone who argues that no line can be drawn between two etxremes are either deluded, insane, or with an agenda.

For purposes of scientific classification, the lines may blur sometimes. But the evidence at hand and discussions among experts does not seem to justify 3 different species. If so, one can only presume that those who wish there to be 3 species are finding ways to inflate/publish a paper and to claim a scientific stake, rather than there being some genuine need for classification.
Same here. Bullying stopped the day I beat the shit out of my bully. I got suspended for a 2 days as a result. My parents didn't punish me at all.

When my kid was being bullied we went through all the usual channels, tell teachers etc. Then when all that was done and it carried on I told him to hit them. Got a call from school about it, told them they should have handled it, should not have been left up to my 9 year old but their inaction caused it. Told them that I had told my son that no matter what school said he did the right thing.
They are closer to the stars and further from the worldy concerns of men. It can symbolize some sort of wisdom or power found in "higher" concerns than that of our day to day life.
And this is the exactly why lies and dis/misinformation are so dangerous to society. It makes every source questionable, even one’s like the economist that have tended to give fairly accurate balanced news.

The first amendment is a double edged sword, but all false statements need to be challenged so that a free and Democratic society can function properly. The problem is that lies are cheap to produce, and the truth is expensive to prove.

That imbalance of cost is a real struggle to overcome.
> And, the big one drum roll, please... we will be integrating this into Element so you can have voice and video rooms, and hold group video calls inside the Element app natively over Matrix.

I'd love to replace my teamspeak server with this. Discord is tempting, but I'd rather host it myself.
Here is a regex to check for integer powers of four: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/223129

And a regex to integer-divide numbers by the square root of 2: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/198428
They didn’t get my donations saying they’re gonna bring about racial justice. They said this is what is needed to keep Wikipedia without ads and that they’re suffering. Misleading is an understatement.
You have the source, you have a binary that you've produced from that source, and you have a binary that someone else claims was produced from that source.

You know without doubt that the binary that you produced was built from the source code, because you built it.

I'm asking, why not stop there? You have a binary that you can safely consider "verified", what does it matter if it's bit-for-bit identical to any other binaries?
Truth be told, were you ever an exuberant Elon fanboy? If not, your first line is not credible.

Nothing wrong with that of course, but I find most people who say "I'll support X when [rant against X]" was never in the pro-X camp anyway.
> while men with entire books on the subject get rejected.

Ok, I'll bite. Giving incentives to increase the number of pages about women, does not impact in any way the number of existing pages about men.
That makes me wonder what is the use in including anything political except blunt facts for a place like Wikipedia. If they want to do “political history” then I’d just have an open dump site of any kindling people want to add to the “discussion” and leave it at that. Basically just an archive of propaganda at worst.
I am surprised no one has mentioned what is most likely to be the actual answer: towers are closer to heaven.

In medieval thinking, the ground is less prestigious because it is closer to hell. “Lower” forms of life are called that based on the high-is-close-to-god metaphor.

When wizards draw pentagrams on the ground they are doing darker magic that invokes the powers of Hell.

So, a tower is like an insulator. Great and good magics will need to be invoked up in the air.
a lot of people seem ok with punishing Russian individuals for the actions of the government.

maybe these people have grown in better functioning democracies (unlike Russia or my own country) so they act as if the people were well represented by their governments; unlike reality for most countries with a serious corruption problem.
I can’t speak for wizards but I have a work in progress storybook about witches who adopt a strange feral boy.

He has a strange power as the colour of his hair changes with his moods..from blue to red when he is sad or angry etc.

So they keep him in their ‘Witches Hat Tower’..(which is actually a legit architectural design for tower a pointy top and no parapet) and I had to do a ton of research for that.

Tower tops are good launch off pad for broomstick flights. Perfect for stargazing and the crystal mirror gazing.

The witches hat tower is supposed to symbolize the witch’s pointy hat as the tower itself is the physical body of the witch.

Turns out pointy witches hat have been around since 2-4th century BCE. Mummified remains of witches in China have been found with pointy hats.

Here is my theory..you see, witches(and wizards) have to beckon lightning. When lightning strikes them, they’d end up as charred sticks if not for their pointy witches hats.

The hats have a lightning conductor at the tip. Sometimes you will find it broken..you know that this witch has attracted lightning but hasn’t had time to repair the conductor at the tip. Witches be busy.

Of course..I know everyone will think that it’s also useful while flying the broomstick. But this has nothing to do with the broomstick flying. As it was a children’s book, I didn’t think it was age appropriate to explain the dynamics and purpose of flying high on broomsticks. That’s another short story. For adults.

Of course, not all witches live in towers. As Terry Pratchett informed us..Nanny Ogg lived in a townhouse. Even Granny Weatherwax(Esme Weatherwax) lived in a cottage in the woods. Pointy hats are only for witches who can summon lightning.
That seems to be available, though?

https://call.element.io/meetingwiththegang opens a meeting for a room named "meetingwiththegang".

Ideally, you'd want to use such a system with accounts so you can apply some kind of ACL, but if you want to use randomly generated room names for secret links then everything you need is there already.

Looks like you can't change the room name after starting the call, but you can start a new one at the new address if you want to change the name.
Maybe it is, but keep in mind, that Chrome is a proprietary application - the Linux community and the desktop communities have exactly zero input, what will and what will be not supported.

On the Firefox side, Redhat and Suse people did the work to support video acceleration.
Yes, though they were spies under diplomat cover.

The US has the same setup in Moscow too though. Among "non-friendly countries" it's common that close to half of embassy staff are actually spies or at least 'intelligence analysts'.
Regex to divide a number by the square root of 2
Jan 6th would not have happened without social media spreading lies about the election for months. It is ridiculous to pretend otherwise.
From the first link:

>The Wikimedia Foundation defines racial equity as shifting away from Eurocentricity, White-male-imperialist-patriarchal supremacy, superiority, power and privilege to create an environment that is inclusive and reflects the experiences of communities of color worldwide.

What an interesting signaling statement. If you did not know what "racial equity" was, imagine trying to parse out what it is from that statement.

Imagine reading this phrase out loud to anybody not already involved in this debate. Would this help them understand what "racial equity" was? If you read this statement to any of my family or friends, who live in the middle of the country, they would probably conclude that this was some sort of racist propaganda thing, and wouldn't want to talk to whoever brought it up anymore.

I mean the fact that the foundation which is supposed to also be providing information to the world is also proudly publishing things like that should be pretty revelatory.
but what about Yandex? as far as I recall, they're bigger than google in russia, hence any google data is missing most of the picture
The Myth of a Free Press – Media Bias Explained Ft. A BBC Case Study [video]
I can't even confirm their statements, but I may be using google trends wrong:

>More Russians are asking Google “how to leave Russia” than have done so in 18 years since such data became public.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
I generally agree with you for most stories and facts about the war, but this one is just obvious.

The ruble has declined and the Russian stock market has been closed all week. Russia has been sanctioned. Russia is sending people to fight in a war. There are rumors (whether true or not) that Russia is planning to close borders, impose martial law, etc. Those are all verifiable facts.

In the face of the above, of course people are considering leaving Russia. That is just smart and human nature.
Have you considered being paid in, for example, USDC? You could then get a visa card that you could top up with it for spending.
It's an aggregate over (almost) all the search traffic on the internet. That would be an awfully tall order even for the US government to pull off undetected.
To filter a lie you can try to use logic and critical thinking. It's clear that sanctions and isolation are gonna be devastating. Many people joke that Russia is heading towards "stone age". Thus, it's absolutely logical that people just want to flee the sinking battleship.
When someone controls a signification amount of nodes they can start to de-anonymise users by using correlation of entry and exit node. I ran a relay for 6 months now (as one of less than 5 people on my AS) and haven't run into any of the problems others have seen, those problems seem mostly related to running an exit node.
This grinds me gears. Especially when you have multiple similar lines and one is a character longer and the formatter breaks that line.

It’s like, I could scan the code easier and understand it better without you doing that, thank you!

A similar thing is match statements — some arms using braces vs statements.

There’s also a bunch of heuristics in rustfmt that are complex to the point that I literally couldn’t format the code the way it does without building some sort of decision tree annotated with uneven column limits (e.g. “70% of the column limit”). If I can’t and therefore wouldn’t format the code the way the formatter does, there’s an issue.

Formatters are for consistency, I think, and sometimes they work against that.
>I personally haven't seen a biased Wikipedia article in a very long time.

What leads you to believe you can so easily spot a biased article? Everyone believes they're a neutral arbiter.
This article is filled with cult of personality and baseless claims.
And this is how git works with the different newline styles. It can convert them to a single enforced style on commit and converted back when you pull changes.
Go on Twitter, Telegram, YouTube, anywhere. You'll see plenty of primary videos and accounts corroborating this. You're right, 1 source alone isn't reliable. But there's a massive body of evidence out there, this whole war has been televised. And the Ukrainian narrative has way more evidence than the Russian one...
But if the editors receive proof that a statement article is wrong, but that information can't be published on the Internet for copyright or other reasons, that means it is proven that the source of the information is wrong, so that source should be removed as unreliable at least in this case. If the rules of Wikipedia don't allow unsourced information, they don't prevent removing incorrect information that has been shown to be incorrect. So they could nuke the bad information. If, after that, nothing is left, they can remove the entire article.
This makes a lot of sense. Clearbit itself also has a Chrome Extension that lives in your Gmail and has over 200.000 installations. If they track the IP of anyone who opens one of their users emails, they should have huge coverage. Do you think this is their source of data? (Clearbit extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearbit-connect-s...)
This is a good idea. The only issue will be if any of the offramps start banning Russian citizens as well.
It's an underdeveloped theory of mind and refusal to see how any Eastern Europeans could form their own opinions
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> Anything that is editorialized will skew to an extreme over time

It is exactly why Actuator’s point in the OP was actually incorrect.

> While Wikipedia's model seems far better than an individual publishing house's encyclopedia

The illusion of an unbiased “encyclopedia for the world” has harmed the decentralization of information. It has actually created a unipolarity much like we see elsewhere around the world.

It would be far better to have multiple different encyclopedia companies that could compete and perhaps even specialize in certain areas.

But how do we keep the convenience of having them all connected? That is what Larry Sanger has been working on[1]. A federated network of encyclopedias that use the same data formats.

[1]: https://encyclosphere.org/
This — only have listened to the Hitchens so far — was fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing this. I wonder what he would say about Germany deciding to militarize overnight. No wonder Macron was telling Putin Russia is “European”. Wheels within wheels.
To the contrary-- his neocon character is admitting that his perspective does not align with reality. That's a much more scathing critique of the neocons than the generic upshot you wrote above.
Would love to know how it was like working at Apple? How toxic was toxic?
Haven't read the article but it's true that people are leaving. Some IT companies are relocating their employees in a company-wide efforts.

Obviously not an option for everyone. The sanctions will be hardest for people will low income e.g. elderlies without family to support them.

Also in the last 10-15 years there was quite a (non-governmental) movement to support kids with rare diseases or generally with complicated conditions. This becomes much more complicated I guess if just for the FX rate.