skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that the bias in Wikipedia editorship is very real, and persists even after controlling for obvious causal factors such as Internet access. This is why "knowledge equity" was identified as a key part of Wikimedia projects' future strategy. Of course, trying to single-handedly solve "systems of racial bias and inequality around the world" is a pointless, Sisyphean task: what they ought to do in the first place is identify what factors make it harder for minorities and the socially marginalized to contribute to Wiki projects, specifically, and address these things. But Wikimedia is not a very evidence-driven organization, so they'd rather content themselves with these pointless and self-defeating platitudes.
That article was strange. The journalists say that they were in an area controlled by the Ukrainian government, full of tense checkpoints, and at the time thought that they were being fire upon by Ukrainian soldiers at a checkpoint. But then the Ukrainian government claimed it was Russian saboteurs, so all the news just uncritically repeated that.

It's not that these checkpoints aren't prone to shooting at people. Here's a Twitter thread[1] by an American journalist where the unit he's embedded with kills people in an ambulance that didn't stop at a checkpoint. Again, the ambulance is labelled as Russian saboteurs.

Keep in mind 7 days ago the New York Times were reporting about intense gun battles in Kyiv[2], which again, were blamed on undercover Russian squads. "Ukrainska Pravda, a Ukrainian news site, reported combat 400 yards from Maidan Square in central Kyiv." But there hasn't been much evidence of a Russian invasion of the city yet from what I can find, or that the city is crawling with Russian soldiers.

I think it's at least an open question right now of where the violence inside the city is coming from (and how much of it could be connected to flooding the civilian population with guns).

[1] https://twitter.com/terrelljstarr/status/1498067362595155968
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/25/world/russia-ukraine...
That's such a weird thing to say. Go and Rust are both very different to Java.
Every Russian who leaves is a Russian who won't get conscripted, who will pay no more taxes to Putin. They know what's going on on the inside and can share with the rest of us so we can make informed decisions. And aside from all of that, they no longer have to fear for their lives if they oppose the regime.

From both a humanitarian and a strategic perspective, embracing Russian defectors is the very most important thing that we can be doing right now that we aren't already doing. The only reason not to do so is hate.
American Volunteer Group: Claire L. Chennault and the Flying Tigers – Historynet
I have a colleague from Russia who moved here a few years ago. But.. still he is using talking-points that come from Kremlin's propaganda, like "The US will fight Russia to the last ukrainian" and "I would feel safer here if we weren't in NATO, this makes us a target for Russia" and "You know that it was promised that NATO wouldn't expand?" and "Your country joined the Soviet Union voluntarily".

So.. even when some people move abroad and say they don't support Putin, they still have this.. imperialist mindset that everyone is out to get Russia and it's actions are justified to protect itself and so on.

As an explanation about what people think, not as an accusation against you.
Ask HN: Can Wordle be solved and/or word list reduced using this info?
We're given the following:

1. candidate solution word list, i.e., the entire dictionary used in that version, e.g., OG / GOAT Wordle, the current list for NYT Wordle, whichever variant for which you're solving

2. You're also given an infinite amount of shared solution squares, e.g., as shown in a tweet like this where you can see the gray, yellow, green squares as solved and no letters, to include number of guesses -> https://twitter.com/miradu/status/1500139320472002563

3. can you solve Wordle / prune word list in some meaningful way given that info?

4. specifically, does analyzing the set of blind solutions permit eliminating certain words from the original list -- even one word would suffice

5. you are permitted to leverage any other info that would cryptographically assist, either info can deduce from word list or public domain -- e.g., edit distance from word list, letter frequency tables, etc.

6. you're not given any of the guess words that were used to deduce the blind solutions

7. if the word list can be pruned, by how much -- can half the word list be eliminated in this fashion, none of the word list, etc.
That makes sense, but what doesn't make sense is why it is presented in such a duplicitous way. It's one thing to say "When a country has this kind of internal turmoil, martial law is something that we need to watch out for." It's another thing to say "Unnamed official sees 'signs' on social media about martial law."

One way is transparent, re-enforces critical thinking, while the other way is "believe this because we told you."
Wrong question.
If Russians have a choice, why not Ukrainians?

People who don't wont to fight are bad as soldiers so why force them?
This is a really great book from an ardent canopy explorer: https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/general-books/bio...
There are already like a dozen Matrix clients that don't use Electron. It doesn't take much effort to go to the Clients list and pick one out.
> Am I saying the quiet part out loud?

Yes, in some sense. This is your own internal process of turning all the information into a picture of what is really going on.

When you start projecting it on other people and making judgements about whether they are “reasonable”, you’re going find out that they have a very different picture from you. There are a lot of people who have lived or worked in that part of the world, speak the local languages, and have a much higher ability to filter the news stream into an accurate picture of what’s actually happening on the ground.
Would this idea work in 2022 Ukraine with today's aircraft and ex-military pilots?
They perceived that their ethnic brothers would join a defensive alliance against them? Is that extreme paranoia or were they planning to attack anyway and seized the chance now?
I think because the hero ascending the tower to go slay the evil wizard and encountering stronger and stronger opposition as he ascend is a powerful and symbolic image.

Specifically in D&D dungeons have levels, similarly to heroes, and get harder the higher (or deeper) you go.
Willingness to play russian roulette with major versions may work in small organizations. In large-scale, you can't risk subtle behavior change that still compiles. That's the source of many black magic debugging sessions.
You know that’s not what I meant (and likely not what Trump meant either) by “invasion” right?

You can prove anyone “wrong” by playing with definitions or getting super technical about things.
Hey! That shortcut gave me an idea. I just wrote a quick UserScript that will basically do the same, only completely automatically [0]. Maybe I'll add something that will popup and ask if you want to be redirected.

[0] https://gist.github.com/evanreichard/83467a4775f1672756140fc...
Well, maybe the adventuring wizards are like the engineers of the wizarding world, applying their acquired knowledge to concrete, real life problems. Meanwhile, the secluded wizard-in-a-tower is the scientist dedicated to pushing the boundaries between the known and the unknown. Also, I expect them to visit conferences, though not in person but by using telepresence-spells.
Well, well, well.. the Red Cross was hacked by an APT (linked to Iran by the FBI) just about 2 months ago and 500K email addresses were stolen. Any link here?

https://www.icrc.org/en/document/cyber-attack-icrc-what-we-k...

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/02/red-cross-hack-linked-to...
It didn't work with North Korea, it won't work with Russia. Populace there is unarmed, disorganised and divided, while the Putin's gang is very organised and not shy of using violence against dissenters. When NATO says "we're trying to push russian joes to fix their government", they really mean "we're afraid to confront your bully, he's just too strong and cruel for us."
title of the book: You Won't Believe How SEO Effects The Way We Speak And Think!
Adding onto this: I was able to use https://github.com/cathugger/mkp224o to generate my own v3 address with chosen 7-character prefix in just under 1 hour on my i7-8700k

I imagine an implementation that leverages a GPU could go much faster.
Wasn’t implying they were TB; the dock has DP + USB-C (w/ DP alt mode) — those were the monitors connected to the dock (one via DP-DP, one via USB—C-DP cable. The one that ‘fixed’ it was the DP-DP cable)
This Thursday, apparently: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/ukraine-russia-evening-...

And if you don't trust secondhand reports of a phone call between him & Macron, there is also a public statement today to similar effect, though couched in "look what you might make me do" rhetoric: https://news.yahoo.com/putin-warns-ukraine-might-lose-160156...
"not supporting this war" -- means nothing to your future and the future of your family. Stop saying it. Support stopping the war!

"I do agree - Ukrainians in even more need." -- oh, really? Getting someone's country with its people demolished and that's funded by your taxes is "even more"?
Calling Fractal usable is maybe a bit of a stretch, but there are a lot of really good Matrix clients now!
"No, it just ensures that the only people left in Russia are the ones who support Putin."

It does not, as only a very tiny fraction of those who want to get out, can actually get out. And some choose to stay because of family, buisness, whatever.

But those who left will be the reminder of the status quo for everyone - especially if it was the well educated who left.

"And like I said, Ukrainians have no choice."

But this is the choice of the ukrainian government. I am against mandatory conscripting and would not accept to be force drafted myself. And I would not want to fight next to people who might flee any second.

"They can stop it."

And have you stopped the iraq war? Or closed guantanamo? Or stopped the war in yemen?

Why not? Or are you in support of them?
Yes, the “I’m moral and will prevent your mistakes” crowd somehow is more determined to win. Teenagers subverting the grownups is part of the national culture.
Lukashenko & Belarus is different than Russia because in Belarus, it is all the people vs the Lukashenko regime PLUS Putin's regime.

In Moscow there is no foreign influencer. It is 11 million Muskovites vs the Kremlin. Who would win that battle?

Even just 2 million people shaking their keys would send a message that Putin needs to change course.
I only imagine something like "but you give up the right to sue me if any harm comes from whatever you do with this" would need to be appended to "you can do anything with this".
I think Bishop et al. WIP book Model-Based Machine Learning[0] is a nice step in the right direction. Honestly the most important thing missing from ML that stats has is the idea that your model is a model of something. That how you construct a problem mathematically says something about how you believe the world works. Then we can ask all sorts of detailed question about "how good is this model and what does it tell me?"

I'm not sure this will ever dominate. As much as I love Bayesian approaches I sort of feel there is a push to make them ever more byzantine, recreating all of the original critiques of where frequentist stats had gone wrong. So essentially we're just seeing a different orthodoxy dominant thinking with all of the same trapping of the previous orthodoxy.

0. https://www.mbmlbook.com/
Sexual dimorphism at work
Problem is that Putins mindset seems to be exactly opposite to your statement. He sees the west setting up camp in an ecosystem he should not be.

Hint: I do not endorse that thinking but I can understand that someone with this mindset might react strongly to us (the west) starting to play in “his” front yard.
they did say "the end of 'end of history'" so maybe there is more to untangle than the postmodern idea of what Fukuyama was having his night-terrors about. I fear it's even more "meta" and also a reference to this old Churchill quote about war:

> "Now this is not the end of end of history. It is not even the beginning of the end of end of history. But it is, perhaps, the end of the end of the beginning."
> and the much lower likelihood of the latter was used to dismiss the former.

Actually more often it was the opposite—the open possibility that it leaked from a lab, was used to prop up assertions that it was engineered in a lab.
This problem takes quantum leaps every now and then, then we go back to autoconf and makefiles for our most important pieces of kit. Cmake me a ninja with a side of scons.

Industry: “Virtualize it! No wait, containerize it! Use podman to run a write-once run anywhere JVM, as docker is dead. But automate that with a Dockerfile!”

Me: “glad I learned devops in multiple contexts, we have zero internal consistency.”

I giggled a bit at February 2022 being in the title since it’s March, and no notable advances have occurred in… 5 days.

(ADDENDUM: hypervisors are my preferred tech that has reached mere mortals in recent years. I’m mostly following that thread lately. Alpine linux or freebsd or macos on any box running any app? Yes, please.)
And that's the problem right there: most Russians don't hate him. They've been subjected to a decades long barrage of obligatory Putin worship and even today his support is higher than that of the American president. They don't speak any other language than Russian and don't have access to other news sources. This is a real problem, because (1) it all but ensures that this war will last much longer than it should (it shouldn't have started to begin with) and (2) that Russia needs some kind of victory to be able to back out in order to sustain the myth. No such victory can be defined. This makes for a very bleak future.

Meanwhile the West stands by wringing their hands and crying because 'there isn't anything they can do', when in reality they are just scared.

The best bet right now would be for some Russian faction near the seat of power to get rid of Putin once and for all. Of course the instability that would generate would be at least as dangerous as this war, if not more dangerous but it would also have the potential to improve things.

I won't say anything about your grandfather because anything I could say would sound meaningless.
> 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.

I feel like the line between fantasy and reality has blurred for a lot of people lately.
LastPass authenticator uses centralized (encrypted) storage of keys
Passwords for what? Their personal Nvidia accounts? Who cares, aren’t their emails public with legal LinkedIn scraping anyways?

[1]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
It's also a wasted opportunity just from a competitive standpoint. Brain draining the shit out of Russia is a totally valid strategy that boosts the host nation while hindering Russia.
> Wrong question. If Russians have a choice, why not Ukrainians?

Ask the Russians who are bombing them and preventing them from leaving. Russia has already broken the cease-fire meant to evacuate civilians.

Or ask the Russians who started the war. Ask the Russians carrying out their leadership's orders.

Russians are the ones taking away Ukrainians' choices.
Wikipedia is fine. Doesn’t need fixing.

What changes have you made to Wikipedia that you’ve encountered difficulty with.
Towers are expensive and difficult to construct. A lone tower is highly unusual and suspect. Towers are looming and ominous. All of these together help the writer convey that the character within the tower is powerful, odd and scary.

They also set up the story of adventuring through the tower, floor by floor, in increasing levels of difficulty —as illustrated in the great fantasy movie: Bruce Lee’s Game of Death. :D
I'm very interested in using this kind of tech on family and personal videos that were shot on standard def Hi8. I have a lot of this footage of notable family members who are no longer with us and want to up-res some key clips for future generations, starting with my own kids. It was shot on higher-end 3-chip consumer cameras so I'm hopeful the results will be good.
Thanks a lot for answering in detail!
All user driven content sites censor.
I understand that you are in a difficult position, but western companies using their power to send information to Russians is essentially the same as leaving Russia completely. Do you really have any doubt it would not even take a few hours before they're blocked by Russia? We're all just fast-forwarding this and leaving Russia.

Maybe it will turn people into Putin supporters, and maybe, hopefully, with time, it will push them to revolt.
This is really cool. I really feel like this ecosystem is hitting its stride.

The list of upcoming features is long and sometimes I don't understand how they can have so many things going on at once.

Features tend to take a few years to mature, but that is not a bad thing.

I will be setting up my own server shortly, something that I have been thinking about for a while and maybe try to develop something.

Congrats to the team.

Question:

The OpenID part, would it not be cool if Matrx would offer something like a federated SSO experience? So that on other webpages you could use your matrix login instead of Github/Google and co. Hosting that server yourself would be fantastic.

There are of course some issues with Attribute retrieval if user can host these servers themselves.
Seems like now could be a smart time to get back to Venezuela. Where are these 10M barrels going to come from for the west? And now you have Saudis not entirely taking USA's side in this conflict.
And the people who wanted to flee, played their part in it. It is bad for the morale, if you have to shoot your people for wanting to leave. And they did get shot - but not from the other side, too. They were welcomed once they made it. And still it worked.
Hey has! I should have mentioned that xlwings is a wrapper around your excellent appscript package that does all the heavy lifting with AppleScript :) Thanks for reviving the project on GitHub :)
This page has a pricing page [1] without prices. How I hate such things.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/analytics/pricing.aspx
Pretty much all countries do this stuff to some degree: In the US, be popular and possibly rich, and you can be more likely to get out of criminal charges. The credit system doesn't always really tell how responsible you are: live within your means and simply save money for things and drive used cars, and you'll have to pay more for a house loan. It doesn't matter if you've held a lease for the last 12 years if your landlord doesn't report the credit, same for utilities. Get a loan or else.

I'm not saying everywhere has the same level of surveillance and punishment for deviance, simply that everywhere has them in some form or another. Of course a few are going to remind you of other places. I suppose it is the totality and how they impact day to day life that makes the difference.
My first search was the English terms in Russia region. When someone pointed out I should have searched the Russian translation (I assumed Google normalized this), I accidentally switched the region back to US. So both searches had incorrect results. It would have been nice of the economist to include the direct links to the sources they were citing!
Wish they’d start doing the same with our own oligarchs. Every superyacht is a crime against our children. The amount of resources those absorb that could have been spent combating global warming, on health care, on housing, is just absolutely disgusting. Not to mention the 10000 dollar bottles of champagne, the massive mansions.. so gross.

And if you don’t think we have oligarchs.. why do you think you pay 200 dollars for a vial of insulin? Where do you think all that money goes?
Americans can change government during election every few years if they don't like it.
Russians can't.
That's why the only way is 'the average Joes need to go out to the streets and bring Putin down'.
had same immediate reaction, like whoa, huge if true, time to read the comments
The only reason it didn't fall sooner is because you didn't shoot enough fleeing refugees. Got it.
They want to put the whole of Russia in a Truman show. It's really the most ambitious gaslighting project ever undertaken.
Yet unlike other American social trends, it doesn't seem to be spreading to some countries that fast. I'm somewhat interested in being vegetarian but ended up marrying someone from another culture who absolutely refuses to have a main meal without meat in it.

Living with her, and in other countries, also forced me to realize how weird and distanced American culture is toward meat. Growing up, I was sort of taught / sort of allowed to be grossed out by many cuts of meat. E.g. on a chicken, I'd be kind of horrified by the bits near the bones and focus on the rather anonymous bits like the breast, where you can almost pretend it's not meat. Organs, cartilage, tendon, etc were all utterly unthinkable. Even particularly dark pieces of meat (again, on chicken) were kind of just... avoided.

Not so much in other cultures. My wife gleefully eats just about any part of an animal. And as I've come around to trying things I've discovered that all those weird bits are wonderful. Even intestine, in the right preparation.

Which presents a quandary. What if we split up and I wanted to try being vegetarian, with fake meat / meat substitutes? Well, those fakes are decent at replacing something like chicken breast, or a piece of sausage. But I can't imagine that anyone is rushing to find an alternative to fried cartilage, or sliced liver, or marrow in the bone, or stewed tendon. And I'd miss the hell out of those things, now that I've learned to enjoy them.
CISA: Shields Up
Hats in general seem to have a history of being associated with some kind of magical power. Egyptian royalty wore hats, the Pope wears a hat, and I suppose the crown of a king is also a kind of a hat.

About the pointy hats of wizards - in addition to conducting lightening and inspiration, I imagine it can serve as an antenna also, as a tranceiver that receives and transmits aethereal vibrations.

Why they often live in towers.. I think they like to breathe the atmosphere high above the mundane. It's where wizened philosophers, academics and scholars pursue their thinking and magical meditations, closer to the stars.
I don't understand why people have this fetich for automatic formatters. If you really want this, you should be using old style FORTRAN or something similar. The good thing about modern languages is that you don't depend on the location of code in the page for it to work. If you start worrying too much about exact formatting, you throw away this big advantage. I really prefer code in the location where I put it, not where are machine thinks it is best.

And if you think that formatting is a problem to understand the code, let's get real: this is the smallest of the problems. There are tons of other things that make code complicated to read, like variable and function names, the particular style of your code, how you split it into classes and files, the algorithm you're using, and so many other, more important things. I can guarantee you that if a piece of code is well written, you can understand it independent of where you put braces or the number of spaces you're using.
What sanctions against the American economy following Iraq war, would have pushed Americans to revolt?