skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correction..$1.025bn..the RUB is weakening...hold on a sec, let's call it $1bn.
It's all because of ads. Everything is done in the name of getting more advertisers, and more ad-clicks. So everything must be sanitised, and strictly regulated lest you upset the advertisers
A decentralized, open source "Metaverse" might be interesting. Keeping in mind that the web is essentially a decentralized 2d universe.

Facebook however, is simply attempting to create artificial scarcity (virtual real estate) in a platform that they control and are involved in every transaction that happens in it.

It's a dystopian nightmare-- and this coming from a guy who owns two Oculus headsets and likes them.
Archived: https://archive.ph/JjEJx
I like this axiom and how it maps to the behavior of information sharing and its potential impact.

A disclaimer is a way to demonstrate transparently that a reasonable consideration was made before magnifying false claims.

There may be better ways, but it at least accounts for the cost of signal amplification in some way.
WINE lacks support for FiveM and Space Station 13, which prevents a ton of multiplayer roleplaying servers from being played.
Your account may be hacked, or your website may be hacked. Fraudulent Google ads that link to downloadable malware is a huge problem that Google has not been able to solve. (It's truly a problem on a very, very large scale, in my experience having Google Ads on our websites for revenue.)
> And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?

Seems to me like he is very clearly talking about the viability of injecting disinfectant.
I believe this is considered one of the best videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WOKRaM-HI4
Why should broadcasters be forced to host debates?

Broadcasters are forced to do all kinds of stuff. In Canada they have to carry a certain percentage of Canadian content.
I freely decline meetings too. Usually, add a note saying it is family time or unreasonable time for a meeting.

Never been a problem.
What makes a coach worth to you? Asking because I do coach with focus on non-violence and am curious about value.
Thanks for all the info. I definitely underestimated the number of languages that don't use Cyrillic. I also had it in my head that dropping "to be" in the present tense was more common. Do you know anything about the history of that as far as where, linguistically, it started being dropped? Like which Slavic language groups drop the verb and which don't? I don't know if that makes sense.
like the idea
In the interactive fiction world, where a great deal of effort has been put into complex, responsive storylines, a common structure is the "branch-and-bottleneck" -- allowing a variety of paths through a particular area, but all of the paths bunch back together into a single path at the end, with possibly a few major flags enduring for the rest of the narrative. As this article mentions, enforcing some structure on the narrative like this not only makes implementation easier but also tends to make the story more coherent for the player:

https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/standard-...
MonoLisa also has a trial version. [1] They have a great site, I love the font, and the availability of a free trial was the icing on the cake. Great experience all around.

https://www.monolisa.dev/buy/661578
> Are you all still using YouTube? Propping up the U.S. Corpocracy by watching kittens and puppies?

I'm a cord-cutter and yes, I use YouTube constantly.

It obviously has a lot more than kitten an puppy videos, it's not that cut and dry.
Here’s a site that catalogs CMS systems and software. 1300 and counting. I’m reasonably sure everyone thinks they’re building a good one.

http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
> so-called "Bantu" languages

Are you implying that Bantu languages don't exist?
I know this is rhetorical but yeah; retention games. I’m guessing that many of these places do weigh the brand reputation hit of doing stuff like this but just don’t think it’s that important or valuable. I do. I don’t support companies that play these games, which makes it extra upsetting that I literally do not have a competitive choice vs Comcast for home internet. I can get 768K DSL through ATT, or 1300/45 from Comcast. They’re about the same price. No FTTH, no Sonic, wireless options are under 50mbit down, etc.
The whole concept of "trusted" computing was never about trusting the user (which in the vast majority of cases involving a mobile phone, is the owner); in fact, quite the opposite. The fact that it sometimes helps the user is merely a beneficial side-effect that the proponents of this authoritarian scheme use as an excuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Biddle
Sounds like you're at the "N" company.
One possibility is that forces inside Russia eliminate Putin. He’s costing the oligarchs a lot of money.
How does that help them if they can't access their bank account?
No time.
But they still support Kremlin agenda pretty well (search is only one of examples). If not - why they still work there?
Here is a Forbes (yeah, I know) article on these captured plans:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2022/03/03/alle...
Aside from whether that’s happening here, there’s an argument to be made that an equivalent of common carrier laws make sense for the largest platforms. With the centralisation of attention onto those platforms, deplatforming effectively lets them act as a law unto themselves, and I think there’s a fair argument that in exchange for their outsized impact on society, those platforms have obligations to it as well.

(I don’t necessarily think it’d be the best idea for the most part though.)
Codeberg does this: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/commit/5f0b5ee23464163ea2b...
> why people think youtube should be forced to host stuff they don’t want to host

For the same reasons that AT&T can't terminate your phone service if they hear you talking about something that's opposed to the political preferences of AT&T or its leadership. These companies have become the public square and the law needs to be updated to reflect that. If they have to become public utilities fine.

There's a big difference between a small company being coerced by the government into some action, versus the same action on a very small handful of multi-billion dollar companies that have a collective monopoly on our entire public and political discourse.

What's really bizarre is how the left is supposed to be opposed to, e.g. Citizens United, and the establishment neoliberal take is ultra-pro corporate rights and autonomy and 0 government intervention. IMHO thinking a few companies should be free to make a cooperative agreement and shut whoever they want out of communicating on these popular platforms is a radical right-wing position.
Interesting, but the U.S., as per usual, is not on the defense, but on the offense, just like in WWII. For the nation states and other sovereign forms affected by the any current Russian Aggression, there are also some clearly lacking similarities, namely that the U.S. and the rest of the West are not allying themselves with Russia against Germany, which could be said to be Finland's chief issue in securing aid.

A good point however is that the West can rarely be relied on to truly help its poorer allies, except maybe by saying a few words.
Sure, for every NY, and Maryland, etc. there’s a Wisconsin, Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Texas, etc. the parties are not equal here, this is way more prevalent among republicans in swing states.

It’s a serious problem for all citizens, but republicans are incentivized to keep doing it.
I'm not aware of any platform like that, but I know something similar which is https://tosdr.org/
What's the deal with using guilt by association as a way to disparage or dismiss ideas? Seeing that a lot lately.
I hope it will allow docking with phallus shaped rockets occasionally.
One theory is that Ukraine may be running out of armed drones and its small, outnumbered air force may be wary of being shot down by Russian air defence batteries.

Ben Barry from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) suggests the Ukrainians may well be safeguarding what resources they do have in readiness to counter-attack when the Russians get closer to Kyiv
Is this the event that you are referring to?

https://twitter.com/RepLizCheney/status/1489691175883882496
Russia has a long history of corruption going back to the time when the princes under the Mongol Empire beginning in 1219 were forced to collect taxes on their behalf. Unlike in the rest of Europe and China, the princes during this time ended up controlling large regions relatively uncontested, responsible only for extracting maximum output from their vassal and putting little pressure on their power structures to be efficient to outside threats. This structure has been recreated in each successive iteration of Russia government, up to the oligarchs today. Or so goes the general historical consensus.

Russia ranked 136th out of 180 in Transparency International's corruption index.
Good. YouTube's platform. Don't like it? Don't use YouTube. There is a plethora of alternatives.
Russia demanded companies headquartered there sell 80% of all dollar foreign reserves for rubles 5 days ago.

All the way at the end, but there are other sources (Russian):

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/business/russia-sanctions...
that's because different countries have rules about what things can be shown with commercial satellite imagery. Canada for example has a way longer list than the USA does if that surprises you (potentially to avoid foreign conflict) which includes the max resolution and sale of imagery of taiwan, spratly islands, conflict zones in the middle east and more.

does yandex show you putin's mansion?
The idea is to starve the thing you don't like of money and to vote with your feet.

If you hate NFTs and enough people agree with you and all of you boycott WordPress, they'll drop NFTs. That's the point. It's both an ethical exercise and a type of activism.

Either way, you are free to dislike boycotts but most people think they're useful and libertarians keep telling us that they're an alternative to regulations.
Really nice to see BFT starting to be taken seriously in CRDT research. I had done some research in this area last year and came to a lot of the same solutions (i.e. BRB protected CRDTs when dealing with VClock based CRDTs):

https://github.com/davidrusu/bft-crdts

We ended up moving away from VClock crdts entirely for our work and going with grow-only hash-graph CRDTs as they have don't need the BRB overhead (as Martin has found in his research as well).
It’s sad that youtube can choose what content to host?

It’s sad that not everyone agrees with all the choices they make?

Doesn’t seem sad to me.

The alternative, where youtube cannot choose what content to host, seems sad to me.
That thought (NATO) is worth more than 2 Yens.

Part 3 (@33:00) of Oliver Stone's interview has him taking Stone to his situation room ("my functions as Commander-in-Chief") in case you're curious at the level of interaction with MoD.
There's nothing inevitable here. The Russian army is being show to be a joke right now.

Ultimately there will have to be some sort of negotiated peace (Ukraine can't fight all the way to Moscow) but the more of the Russian Army they destroy and the longer they hold them off the better the terms they will get.
Not buying it. The races are so polarized that it basically doesn’t matter who runs at all, which is why so much focus is on voter suppression and gerrymandering.
I have been seeing this weekly the past few months.

People have found a vulnerability and learned how to hack it.
Well we don't have evidence that any ballots were hacked or that any weren't hacked. There were unquestionably irregularities that can't be disputed:

- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court (not the legislature) changed their voting laws to accommodate widespread mail-in ballots and drop-boxes which was against the state constitution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/us/politics/pennsylvania-...

- There are a number of reports that many nursing homes in Wisconsin had near 100% voting turnout.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/wisconsin-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y2REQS5kKo
"You should get therapy" is becoming the new "fuck you, touch grass" on HN. You have absolutely no idea who I am or what my situation is, so there's no way you're actually recommending me therapy with any intent to help me. So you must be insinuating that my comment is so deranged that only someone who needs professional help would write it. You are just insulting me for no reason. Stop this bullshit.
Right I found that quote on this page which looks a fair assessment from a few days ago.

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/air-war-over-ukraine-the-fi...
I think you're right and I can only assumed you've been downvoted because people didn't like your use of the word "principled" (which we usually reserve for good people) being used to describe idealogical absolutists.
I hope you don't think I've only just heard of these Putin propaganda 101 remarks...

It's not because he's a warmonger he's controlling the Armenia-Azerbaijan issue. He controls the Armenia-Azerbaijan issue because he's a warmonger and they're scared of the Ukrainian invasion level of shit he will do to them if they don't comply.

Surely this Russian invasion has dispelled all doubt on the NATO argument here. Every country like Poland and the Baltics that requested to join NATO got to live in peace free from Russian invasion. Ukraine wasn't able to and was thus invaded. 5,000+ are dead because of this. A country being in NATO is unacceptable to Putin because it then means they can't be threatened and invaded. From the ashes of the USSR, Poland and the Baltics have been prospering into great standards of living, while the kleptocrats that control Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia have pilfered their people's country enriching themselves. Every country has requested to join the alliance. While Russia invades multiple countries who aren't. It's pretty simple and clear what's going on.

Discussions between Baker and Gorbachev, that were rebuffed by diplomats as infeasible when checking if it could be put in a treaty, and which Gorbachev and other Soviet diplomats did not care to put in the treaty, are no way to conduct global diplomacy. Every treaty will start with countries' diplomats discussing things and seeing what deal they can work it. You can't bind people to everything they say in first talks. Insane. Meanwhile, Russia breaks multiple signed treaties, like the ones respecting Ukraine's territory for giving up nuclear weapons and invading when there's the Minsk Protocol. These are legally binding agreements, and yet you're hung up on something that was briefly approached 30 years ago. Also insane.

PS. You should know that Russia will be closing the borders soon and you will be stuck in a place where criticizing your government will land you 15 years in a gulag. Feel free to join the 100 other countries where you can talk shit about any government any day of the week on the news. Obviously it is a scary and huge undertaking. However the standards of living offered by western countries will be unparalleled by the currently crumbling Russian economy. I'm talking about 30,000,000 ruble/yr compensation in the US and we'd love to have you contribute.
Fair enough on the exact temp and like I mentioned, yes it seldom is actually -40C. I've seen it on a thermometer tho and like you say, you really just don't want to be outside. I don't live in that place though, so no idea how often that would happen.

Environment Canada is a good one, didn't think of checking that for historical data. Makes sense tho come to think of it. Another thing is the real local conditions vs. actual weather stations. I've seen quite a difference between my thermometers (that all agreed with each other within a degree) vs. what various online sources provided for our location. The next actual weather station where I am is ~15km straight line distance from here for example.
Relevant to mention that since today, mentioning the war carries an up-to 15 year jail term.

Whether this excuses anything is not my point.
Only a bit different when you compare monopolies to governments which are ultimate monopolies...
Instead of trying to "both sides" gerrymandering, why don't you work out how many votes it takes on average for a Democrat to win an election, and how many it takes a Republican. With that information, you can infer which party has the most motivation to end gerrymandering.
oh, like a watch
The minute fakes are a serious issue we will sign utterances. Exactly the same as DNS or anything actually important. Deepfakes will not be a threat or issue.
Specious argument. First of all, the democrats did a lot of calling of elections into question, and so have republicans, and so what? Second, there has been an enormous amount of violence in the U.S. in the past several years, and the vast majority of that did not happen on 2021-01-06. Third, "storming" of capitols is a thing that has happened plenty in the U.S., and fairly recently too, once in the past year alone in Georgia, and in Wisconsin in 2010, and so on.
It’s the same age-old piracy problem that Spotify, Netflix, Apple Music, Disney+, etc have mostly solved. Make a product worth paying for and more convenient than piracy and people will pay a reasonable price for it. Shove ads down peoples throats and play games with hard-to-cancel subscriptions / BS pricing and people will correctly value your product near worthless and act accordingly. It’s up to you as a company to prove your value to users. Throwing up a paywall that is easy to defeat protecting content that isn’t worth much in the first place and is riddled with ads is a great way of telling consumers that they shouldn’t trust you.
> I use yandex when I don't want censored results

I assume you don't know there's a war in Ukraine happening right now then. Just take a look at the front page of https://yandex.com/news. It's like a different reality.
I don't know of anyone who claims that programs in web assembly are safe internally.

The security claims are entirely that gaining arbitrary execution inside the wasm sandbox does not give you arbitrary execution in the host.

The benefit of a wasm sandbox over a process sandbox is entirely in the overhead reduction - but that does come at the cost of wasm being generally slower than native compilation (oh tradeoffs we will never escape you)
There has never been any doubt that 20th century weapons are sufficient to do horrendous damage to civilian targets. WWII shows plenty of examples, many of them in Russia. Saying that the modern Russian army is at least as capable as the WWII Russian army... I mean, it's not wrong, it's just not interesting.
> All this talk of Russia getting upset that "its" sphere of influence would rather look westward is completely writing off the agency of individual countries that haven't been part of the USSR for over a generation.

Exactly. Russia has no inherent right to a sphere of influence. If it wants the support of its neighbours it will have to work hard to win that support.
Companies with monopolistic power and revolving door political hirings need to be held to a different standard as they are beyond competing for views and shape narratives.

It doesn't matter whether they are shaping it politically or profitably or via AI for clicks. It isn't neutral and drowns out or outright eliminates competing views.
I think what's changed is that the ability of a few outlets to control the narrative is diminished. The interstate always cut through poor communities. The bridges were always designed to keep buses from carrying people out of the cities to the suburbs. Certain demographics were always over-represented among the poor, and the policies responsible were always there. (US examples, but systems keep some people down for the benefit of others everywhere.)

But now you hear about it. The world you planned for was always an illusion. It never existed outside a narrow slice of time in post-WW2 peace and prosperity, and only for the thin slice of humanity that got to enjoy it. Now the hard part is: what do you do about it now that you know you were fed pleasing lies?
Well, I have a tweet and a tweet thread anyway:

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1499872184382234636

https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1499822066098655234
Interesting, some flag like [dead|grey|safe|authoritative] might be an improvement on the situation.
I suppose you don't call removal of LGBTP+ elements from the media released in Russia/China/MENA "censorship" either, just private companies exercising their rights, right?
Stoics in fact embraced emotions and feelings. It is a common misconception that Stoicism means to blunt your feelings. It’s a long explanation, but it basically encourages you to live in the moment and leave every day fulfilled.
Because, like telephone companies youtube can be considered a monopoly and classified as a common carrier, as some states and proposed federal laws have argued.
"Removing poll watchers" was in response to those poll watchers intimidating the poll workers. The lack of signature matching/oversight is not evidence of wrongdoing. Its the possibility that wrongdoing might not have been caught. Once again, none of this is a falsifiable hypothesis. It's simply a list of grievances designed to erode trust.

I'm not familiar with ballot harvesting.
Wow. Great hint. Thanks.
this isn’t black and white google is censored and yandex isn’t. they both censor in different ways. try the same searches on both you will see different results. i use yandex for some searches they are better at
How many people in the 4 countries? How many people in the 141 countries?
This fellow was completely and utterly wrong about Putin, saying that he'd never invade.

How can someone be proven so wrong about their life's work and still be called "one of your best thinkers in international politics."?