skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any references here? As far as I can tell, this article is primarily based upon the testimony of Jim Cantrell, who doesn’t seem to be the most reliable person for these things and is well within Musk’s cult of influence.

Other sources are from Musk himself, also known to lie for self gain.

Maybe gross exaggeration would have been a better term?
The Economist is a short-medium form publication. It has excellent reputation. I am wondering about what's causing you to be overly skeptical? Have there been major reputable publications who have misled you (specifically about Russia)?
I’m not arguing against that, just that huge chunks of the web break the HATEOAS abstraction, as it were, and yet, as you pointed out, “the web is pretty successful overall”. It’s not super clear to me that this is because of hypermedia or not in the sense that correlation is not causality.
I'm not sure what some of the spikes in years past were about, but again it's a scale of 'how popular the terms were' from 0-100 not a raw count. You can see it spiking hard recently compared to the average. Without seeing the raw numbers it's hard to tell exactly how significant it is though.
Yeah this is the problem with surveys, the discrepancy between what people say and what they actually do.

Same happens with religion surveys. Call it lying or hypocrisy, it is just human nature.

Not an expert, but in UX research you can go deeper by asking "why", but even then you need to confirm this (by consilience) with watching behavior, analytics or other methods. Human behavior is highly unreliable and irrational
Well, this was coming straight from Russian officials: https://tass.ru/politika/13873997
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-korean-air-cancel-passenger...

Perhaps they are also running out of fuel. Air Korea stopped flights to Russia as well citing lack of fuel.

Seems the sanctions are really hitting hard.
The AST usually isn't enough, you want a CST (or what a few sources call "full" syntax tree, preserving white space, comments, etc). I think .NET has the best implementation of this out there, unsurprisingly they have incredible tooling support.
Yes I realize it would be hard for them. But who else on the planet has a better chance?

The reality is that everyone is paying these sanction costs. Europe and US companies too. Even poor people in Morocco will pay the costs in the form of increased food costs or food scarcity.

Russians seem to want a get out of jail for free card, but that would not be fair at all.
I still do not see the logic of punishing people who left russia - as they obviously do not support the war.

If they stay and get drafted to fight in the war for real, how does this help?

And sure, they could try to organize revolts - but would you? That is extremly dangerous and a million times easier said than done.

Fleeing the country is a strong peaceful revolt on the other hand. Helping those people will mean helping an opposition that one day maybe wants to go back to russia to build up alternative structures.
Rumours are not official propaganda; but they can certainly be a psy-op.

(Not suggesting that that’s the case here; just that you shouldn’t forget how e.g. the US CIA engineers coups in other countries, when thinking about how other large states work.)
I'm so sorry you are going through this. Good luck. I hope you are able to get settled safely.
I don't see how this could work, because the AI would need some training data of web posts that included people _without_ mental disorders, and frankly I don't see where on the internet you would be able to find much of that...
> but maybe non-NATO countries could be encouraged to do this.

No non-NATO country is going to enforce a no fly zone on Russia
I live in Estonia. If I see news reports where they interview people from the border guard who say that there are more border crossings than usual, owner of coach company says that they have added more trips to St. Petersburg and number of russians traveling has increased, also Russian-owned bus companies have added more trips to Estonia, where busses leaving here are alomst empty but packed full of travelers when leaving St. Petersburg.
Also bus companies have said that more people travel with pets or large luggage.

Are they all lying?

https://news.err.ee/1608521780/passenger-numbers-on-lux-expr...
I'm willing to bet Truth Social will implement its own bizarro censorship. Like, if Twitter bans claims that the 2020 election was rigged, TS will ban claims that it was fair.

And in any case, even if they don't explicitly ban left-wing views, their algos will make sure most users don't see them.
I wish people who wish facebook to be banned (or any other communication / news app) would be publically shamed in the USA.
That's the exciting bit for me. I love Matrix, but video and voice being primarily "call" based is painful, when what I really want is a dynamic voice/video room that people can quickly and easily drop in and out of, like in Discord.
Agreed.

tiny nitpick: immigration -> emigration
wont take much for this to fall again.increase prices means increased supply
This attitude doesn't square with the dense bureaucracy, unavoidable surveillance, and complete monopoly on violence that modern nations hold. Especially in a place like Russia, where "organizing" is nearly impossible because opposition leaders have a bad habit of accidentally eating plutonium and nerve agents.
For me, it serves as a guarantee that the binary will work correctly on my system. Knowing that if something is broken, that it isn’t due to a broken build makes it easy to debug issues. For example, when I updated wlroots, and chromium broke, I was able to isolate the issue very quickly.
The other replies mentioned tooling and equipment but it's also very, very important for farmers to have mechanics and spare parts available nearby. Farmers often only have one or two days to harvest and when stuff breaks down, it needs to get fixed asap. Every hour counts and a day long delay can result in losses in the tens of thousands of dollars. So a competitor not only needs to make better tractors and equipment but also needs a tight supplier network across the region or country.

Plus tractors are just computers on wheels nowadays. The amount of technology in modern machinery is mind boggling. Some German (and possibly others) farmers are streaming their day work on Twitch and give interesting insights into modern farming.
You can use desalination for drinking water, but growing food requires way too much water for it to be feasible.
>they are afraid to stand up to their own government

I think you are not aware on how authoritarian regimes work and relates to those trying to oppose.
Because those things don't really directly support the article's lede the way the google trends results do. They aren't a demonstration that there is a trend; they're ancillary information explaining why that trend might be happening.
See what I mean. Now you are comparing your situation to North Korea. I doubt you have it as hard as that. Just gather people together, go the central square, and shake keys.

They don't have enough jails to hold everyone.
It's an interesting theory, unfortunately none of the magical texts from that period that I'm aware of actually work that way. Many occultists of the time believed magic and demonology was justified by Christ giving his followers power to command demons and the elements in the New Testament.
The OP I’m pretty sure is being sarcastic and referring to this obnoxious book by Francis Fukuyama:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_history

He had this absurd premise that because the Soviet Union collapsed and free trade was surging every place everywhere would coalesce to a boring democracy.
Most aircrafts traveling west from Asia or Eurasia on a direct flight take a polar route to get to North America. If not over the north pole, at least as close to artic circle as possible.
I think you missed the parent's comment.

FTA: "Buses travelling from St. Petersburg to Helsinki, Tallinn and Riga are also fully booked."

How do I prove:

- This is true without actually seeing the data that buses are fully booked

- Yle is a trustworthy media outlet and what they are saying is true

- The Finnish government isn't booking the buses and then telling the media that buses are booked

For the record - I believe that Russians are trying to do exactly what you said and what the article says. I trust this.

However, this is precisely the issue - what outlets do you really trust? Stuff that comes from BBC? CNN? New age "influencers" on YT/TikTok? This is the problem.
I believe this as well, but it's not always cut and dry. To take down a government requires organization and cooperation amongst entities. Some regimes, like North Korea, effectively make cooperation and organization impossible. They snuff out the revolution before it ever starts. If there is ever going to be a Russian opposition to Putin that is actually strong enough to take him down, it will likely start in a different country.
Rumors can absolutely be propaganda.
Has anyone looked into their implementation of E2EE for calls? My naive assumption is they are brokering some kind of shared key exchange as opposed to requiring everyone to send an individually encrypted stream to everyone else.
I worked on the Halting problem article a bit. The article has a "more footnotes needed" warning at the top - nobody is claiming the article is good. But at least the history section is well-sourced, so it's clear that the 1936 proof refers to Turing's paper "On Computable Numbers With an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem". There is a summary at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%27s_proof.
Poll: Do you speak foreign languages?
I speak one foreign language
I speak more than one foreign language
Offroading a little bit on your point about the customer deciding

I have a theory about readers. We are not interested in the story as much as how the writer's style presents it. I've passed some books after a chapter but when an audiobook version comes out - turns out it was actually a masterpiece.

Curious.
This is very important. I used to believe that keeping an open mind was the most important thing, so I listened to everything. Sounds great but the problem is it leaves one in a state of complete inaction, because you're never sure of anything, and people use that to their advantage. While you're sitting around trying to figure out the state of things, they are acting on convictions which may not be 100% right but at least they are getting things done, and that means they're going to win. So while it's important to be factually right it's also important to have convictions, even if you can't justify all of them without bias.

No matter what any of the media say my conviction with this conflict is that Putin is a psychopath. You can make pretty good predictions about his intent and how the conflict will unfold, and who is doing what, and what atrocities which side are willing to commit, based on that fact alone. For example, everyone who thought he wouldn't invade and was shocked when he did saw him as a tactician rather than a psychopath. If you saw him as a psychopath his invasion of Ukraine was inevitable. The thing that shocked me was how slow-rolling the build-up to an invasion is, and how many people are not willing to call a spade a spade. I thought it had to be done in secret, but you can do it in the open if you just lie to people about your intentions. You have the history of his actions in Syria, Chechnya, and Crimea to know that at least what Western media is saying about Russia has a lot of precedent.

Now you could say I'm wrong about that but again that's my conviction and I'll need more than a little proof to sway me from it (because bad actors love to use just a little bit yet deceiving proof to sway people from their loosely held convictions)
A big part of the value in Wikipedia is that an anonymous person can fix grammar and things like that without having to register.
It did turn into a bloodbath at Euromaidan, but the people still came out, for months, and fought to change a corrupt regime that lied to them, as they have in many other countries in the past. Russians are not helpless. The main argument when this gets brought up seems to be that it's going to be hard and people will get hurt. Of course Putin isn't going to just throw up his hands and say "Ok guys, you win, I'm out". Nobody is expecting that. But we've seen that change is possible, and if the Russians are as against Putin's regime as some like to claim they are (with some even saying it's _most_ Russians), maybe it's time to actually do something about it. In the end, they're likely the only ones who can.
Development of Proximity Fuzes (VT) for Projectiles (1950, published 2017)
Some time you need to take sides. Perhaps if that happened in 33, 34, 35... we would not have 39.
>For example it took multiple years to establish and cement the idea of Nazi groups in Ukraine.

There are Nazi groups in the Ukraine, and they have a long history. Is this in dispute?
I mentioned in another comment, and I don't want to spam, but I wasn't able to verify their Google search trends claim, using the source country as Russia, and searching both English and Russian translations of the terms they quoted in the article.

EDIT>> This is wrong! I am able to confirm the Google Trends data now.
AFAIK, both Windows and MasOS allow you to rescale your windows and their contents to be bigger. This is a smart zoom that doesn't simply upsize every pixel on the display. So high density displays should no longer require squinting for us folks over 40.
adjusting Stonehenge for daylight savings time has got to be the worst job ever.
You probably know this already but the hard winter wheat and soft white spring wheat are used to make different types of food. I imagine in the US food manufacturers will start trying to swap for hard winter wheat which it sounds like we’ll have a lot of.

But you’re right about planting season. It’s coming up fast and that window will close with no way to rewind if tensions die down.
As someone involved in a lot of neuroscience initiatives, I think the integration of science funding in technology is really just so exciting. I cannot wait to see what the field brings in the next 50 years (if we all make it that long ;-) )
The article gave you the search terms they used. Why would you make up your own? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...
I would have thought that repairable was a huge competitive selling point for agriculture.

From what little I know of farming, these machines work very hard and are indispensable. Often it appears there are very tight deadlines (harvest, weather etc) where you have like a 24-72 hour window to get something done otherwise the whole year's work is wasted.

If a machine can't be easily fixed, then you are up shit creek and your entire livelihood could be on the line.
This might appear soon, at a job interview in your neighborhood...
to be honest, I don't know, that is the reason I left, I have no hope and don't know how to change things.
What could help is all these companies that are blocking Russians sending information to Russians about this war and about Putin's actions.
If all Russians on Google, Playstation and etc saw more information it would help get through the blockade. Companies haven't been doing it because it requires more effort and risk getting blocked by Russia.
By cutting these people off you are turning these people into Putin supporters.
It's so much easier to just cut off Russians than actually trying to solve the problem.
What is "rubygems on the command line" ?

From the replies it sounds like this is talking about client software? An unattended client should not be able to do WebAuthn as the whole point is that a human is present and authorising the authentication step - this is part of its defence against remote attackers, if I have 100% full of Bob's device I still can't touch the sensor or button to authenticate as Bob.

However, if you mean the human is present and running command line apps, that's fine, definitely possible. The authenticator is typically a USB device, it speaks HID (like a USB keyboard or mouse) but a specific custom HID protocol for this purpose, you can get a library to help talk to it, and that's how OpenSSH works with Yubikeys.

Now, OpenSSH is specifically telling the authenticator "I'm SSH, not the Web" but for "Rubygems on the command line" you could choose either to say "I'm a web browser" or, you could say "I'm this custom rubygems on the command line thing" and that gets you public key signed messages that are unique to your thing, verifiable by a remote system as not "WebAuthn" but "Custom rubygem thing".

Apple and Google (for the Android ecosystem) actually do all this today for phones, if you use a Web browser you get WebAuthn, but from a normal phone app you can do the exact same Usernameless/ Passwordless login like WebAuthn, but using a custom per-app message that can't be impersonated by other apps on the same phone.
good idea, just booked one night in Kiev to support. Airbnb takes 0% fees thats good. Thanks

edit: just got this message from Kherson via airbnb: "Hello! Thank you very much for your support! I can’t hold back my tears! The whole world is helping Ukraine in the war against vile Russia! We believe in Victory! The Russian military is bombing our houses, civilians are dying. Children are forced to hide in basements from rocket attacks and starve! I will definitely share your money with the children! Thank you very much!"

I recommend to book airbnb in bombed cities.
Here's Kim Iverson breaking down the criteria for Political Disinformation and what they might have done to break said policy:

https://youtu.be/t-oEaACklrc

EDIT: and I think I see where we're breaking down in our communications. We are basically agreeing (I think). I don't think YouTube's need for an immediate tag or rebuttal around "misinformation" leads to further discourse. I think rebuttal videos which would be linked, by way of the shared interest algorithm, would further discourse. Instead of scrounging for ad revenue and pushing people down into their own little bubble, YouTube has an obligation to offer up rebuttal videos, videos which offer an alternative to supposed misinformation, not to outright ban something like raw footage of political figures putting their foots in their mouths.
How about the case where x is (y > 0)? If y is NaN, shouldn't x be boolean-NaN? And shouldn't if(x) throw an exception? Or shouldn't (y > 0) throw an exception if you don't want boolean-NaNs?
I think it's just how we tend to think, unfortunately. We conflate individuals into uniform groups. Americans certainly do it with domestic politics. ~100 million people become "the Republicans" or "the Democrats" and are spoken of as if they have a single, united mind behind them.
Yeah when you get into it it becomes very clear that the corruption dates back to the very beginning and is deeply ingrained in the fabric of this circle of people that is in power. They are so cynical and they are covering up so many things, that they’re basically secure in the knowledge that it’s all too complicated for anyone to actually do anything about.
Founder of Designjoy here. Happy to answer any questions ya’ll have!
That closing question is maybe a bit too open-ended? I will happily defend The Economist as one of the highest-integrity journalistic publications in the world, but they've still misled me in the past. Not in any way that I suspect is intentional, but people do honestly get things wrong sometimes. My own mother has misled me numerous times, always with the best of intentions.
Your definition of freedom seem to be other people doing what you want them to do. That's not how I see freedom. Someone offering software as a service is not a threat to anyone's freedom. Preventing them from doing so by the threat of state violence makes both the business and it's potential customers less free.
> A million people marching in Moscow would change minds

Especially if, say, a quarter of them were military and/or internal security personnel that came out with their gear.

Even the least democratic government relies on support of the people to function, but not even the most democratic (and certainly not Russia) depends on each person’s support equally.
I mean, does it even matter what the Russian government claims or denies at this point? They were clearly dishonest about Ukraine in the months leading up to the invasion. The West was clearly sharing good intel on the Russians' intentions. There is obviously propaganda on both sides, but that does not make the information from our respective governments equally worthless. I think the government that just shut out most foreign and independent press, spins insane stories about Jewish Nazis and make it illegal to even print "war" is probably the less credible propaganda maker in this situation. The truth may be the first victim in war but that does not mean it's dead.
Why would you assume that? (See Euromaidan)
This is a great time to be on a low carb diet.
Many people all the time. All my relatives and many of my friends.
You might not have known this, but in this world only the Americans have free will. Not Eastern Europeans, not Putin. Everything else that happens in this world is just a reaction to the USA making the right or wrong decision. Apologies if you are not American and have just found this out. I can only hope this is softened by the possibility you don't have feelings
Yes but the current UX for that is terrible. With the proposed MSC linked in the blog post, Matrix will additionally gain Teamspeak/Discord like voice channels [1].

With this we could finally have a proper Teamspeak/Mumble bridge for voice that gets properly represented on the Matrix side which is amazing :D

Also kinda funny that Teamspeak only recently started using Matrix for their global chat feature [2].

Maybe now after the gitter acquisition, Element should consider acquiring a certain voice-focused company ;)

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[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/mat...

[2] https://community.teamspeak.com/t/teamspeak-5-beta-bug-repor...
Official sources are less reliable: Russia is heavy on propaganda at the state and media levels, and destination country reports will be spiky, slow, or nonexistent.

This presentation is interesting because it is a data presentation that is large, direct, and open: Of Russian IPs using a Google, search terms associated with leaving are going up, even pre-war. Your own research can now be on alternative hypotheses like maybe Google became that much more popular in the last few months in spikey per-keyword patterns, or that the Russian population using Google is big (some X%) but has opposite beliefs of all non-Google users. For both, you can check against something like Yandex, which has a similar feature.
> That said, the way the conversation is going on here in the last day or two, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these comments were direct propaganda

Agree