skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it does make a difference to have more information and especially more incisive and clear facts that are easy to present.

I haven't had many arguments about Hitler's death, but I've pulled people away from the moon landing conspiracy theory, and a bunch of others. My success rate got much better once I was able to walk them through the Apollo 11 mirror and the detection of it from earth. It's not perfect, but it makes a difference having a single clear piece of information you can offer them, especially one they hadn't considered before.

Consider different types of conspiracy theorists:

1. Ones who copy something they vaguely heard. New information is a relief to them. They don't like being on the outside. Even if you are only temporarily their new source of authority, convincing them of the truth is a win and you can build from there. Also, you can usually find someone they regard as an authority who can present the information.

2. Ones who want to have inside/obscure knowledge of something. Telling them a fact most people don't know is exciting. They may switch to the truth just to have one up over their fellow theorists. They may become your best research partner.

3. Ones who have put in work to adopt conspiracy theories but are genuinely confused about the story. These can be won over with an abundance of factual information and analysis. So not only do you mention the dental records, you show them the whole paper, review the other pieces of evidence, etc. They take time but the effort genuinely pays off, likely for life.

4. Ones who think anyone but their unhealthy brain or true cult leader is trying to deceive them. You probably can't win here. But they're far from most common and you generally know if you have one of these on your hands.
> The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

― Andrew S. Tanenbaum

But really, RTP is the closest thing. Outside of the consumer space nearly everything is RTP + some out of band signalling protocol. It's low latency, designed to be multicast, has RFCs for evey codec under the sun, etc.
Shareholders of Twitter might even band together for a class-action lawsuit against the board if they reject the offer and then TWTR falls in price.
Those are all also things that the oligarchs of the enemy can promise to do better on (and perhaps even actually deliver) to buy off Americans away from loyalty to their hometown billionaires.
It is indeed derived from „war“, but here it has different meaning, so „military“ is correct translation.
You would use „war operation“ as translation if this operation was an episode of war, but according to Russian propaganda it is not.
Combat operation would be translated as «боевая операция».
> If you buy Bluetooth headphones and complain they don’t buffer full songs then that’s your problem, not the headphones.

What is the use case for headphones that cut out every couple of seconds?

> Surely it’s the opposite? They don’t work in a Faraday cage, because they’re streaming and need to be connected.

In this case the broadcast source would be in the Faraday cage along with the listener.
>claims are handled jointly between an advisory board and community assessors, with a framework for appeals and community voting.

So you mean like a company with a board of directors, shareholders and voting shares. I'm sorry I just I don't think that's very interesting, because companies already existed without blockchains and DAOs and smart contracts.
This is kind of perfect though, even from a pacifist POV.

The crew probably got off alive (mostly). A vessel built only for killing, was sunk.

I agree it's not good to revel in bodycounts, but equipment-count... really nothing wrong with being happy about this one.
As the ship was host to a S-300F system, roughly analogous to the US's AEGIS missile defense, getting distracted by a single drone sounds like it should be yet another black eye in this whole chain of events.
Free speech is just the ability to speak your mind without fear of reprisal or censorship.

It is not something we technically have here on HN or on twitter or in other such places.

Most governments that claim to value the concept of free speech usually have it said somewhere in their governing documents that the government will honor this concept.
I have indeed sailed 20kt close-hauled into a 10kt wind, and I don't believe the feat is all that incredible. But incredibly, I was on the crew that built the 35' racing cat (iirc John Marples' open salon design) that doubles wind speed (depending on conditions) in nearly any tack. Took 2 years (all wood hulls plus glass and snot), and I consider it a sabbatical from sysadmining. I was in the best shape of my life due to manually longboarding the hulls 5 days a week, fulltime, for 3 months straight, because I really had no shop skills, still don't. But I learned to screw, glass and snot, and bump and grind, and I especially learned how to longboard a hull. I already knew how to sail. Used to swim like a fish, but discovered during those 2 years that I had forgotten how to swim, and I nearly drown in the marina trying to swim across it. Maybe it was because when I learned to swim I was a little chubby, not much, but when I attempted that, idk, 150 yard swim across the marina... and back after a rest (getting back in after nearly drowning was about impossible, but there was no other way back), I did not have an ounce of fat on me, so I had to work a lot harder to keep my head above water. Scariest thing ever, the rational concern that I might drown for being an idiot.

Thinking more about it, water also moves a boat. Imagine a fast river flowing right into the wind, and you can sail a boat without sails at 20kt into a 10kt wind, that is, if the water is moving at 20kt. But that is a cheat, so all I can do is reassure you that a racing multihull can gracefully move into the wind on calmish water twice as fast as the wind itself.
English version: https://tass.com/russia/1438045
Man who paid $2.9m for NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet set to lose almost $2.9m
No, it's a mistake by me and should be changed [1]. The link I got was, strangely, the first for the search I ran. I was in a hurry and didn't double-check. BSV is a scam. It appears I can no longer edit the post. Oh well.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script
Meh, it is what it is. Surprising? Maybe not, just unimpressive. Most people are a product of their environment and that's never going to change no matter what. I don't think there's much to gain here except perspective and appreciation at an individual level...and in my personal experience a great deal more happiness as a result.
According to Wikipedia:

"Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships."[1]

So it looks like they're larger than destroyers but have a similar function.

A discussion of current U.S. and Russian cruiser capabilities can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruiser#Current_cruisers

Moskva is a Slava-class cruiser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava-class_cruiser

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruiser
Every time i see their thing i wanna build another centrifugal BB cannon.
Let me rephrase this.

Musk is trying to pump up Twitter's valuation, so he can soon sell his newly acquired stake at a huge profit.
Interesting read from just 7 days ago: "Russia’s Most Powerful Warship In The Black Sea Is Operating In A Pattern"

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/04/russias-most-po...
Legal teams evaluate licenses and then ban the usage of your software because your attempts to be cute with license clauses pose an unacceptable business risk compared to the value you provide.

If you want your software to be usable, choose standard licenses and don’t modify them. Unless you find value entirely in creating something and not in being useful to others, be extremely careful with creative licensing.
> artists actually getting paid for their work for once is a win in my books

Does the source of the money not matter? Millions of people, many of whom are artists, are being scammed out of their money to pump the value of ETH, but since some artists are getting paid with the proceeds, everyone is absolved. That doesn't sit right with me.
i am skeptical.

first off, the more moving parts a device has the easier it is going to break. and i wonder if the keyboard layer is going to be strong enough to not bend when typing on it.
It would be nice if these were built with public APIs so that alternative chromes could be built around those. But the same factors that make the apps shitty make the APIs shitty, I suppose.
I've seen a lot of people theorize that the law of Supply+Demand price setting doesn't apply, or that it can be repealed by the legislature.

They're always wrong.

Feel free to prove me wrong with a case history.
US missile cruisers (and destroyers) don't have hypergolic fuels onboard because all the missiles have solid fuels, but maybe Russia is different.
The argument [0] has been made that Twitter was why the US had as good of a response to COVID-19 as it did.

[0]: https://stratechery.com/2020/defining-information/
20,000g’s sounds much worse than it is. Some WWII era guns used ammunition with complex proximity fusses subjected to roughly 20,000g’s.

The real question is what kind of mass fraction is sacrificed to build something to survive being spun up.
> But when watching normal porn, I think part of the thrill for many/most people is knowing that what's happening is real.

I'm wondering how true that is.

Obviously, lots of people consume hentai, and platforms like Danbooru are immensely popular.

Also, speaking personally... some of the porn that I've consumed that felt the most "real" was 3D animations where the only real humans behind them were the SFM artists (and voice actors). These artists felt free to do scenes with, like, actual cinematography, with flirting and teasing and emotions between the characters, of a kind you never see even in softcore live-action porn.

So I do wonder how much potential AI generation has for completely substituting large parts of the porn industry.
Saudi prince, a major Twitter shareholder, rejects Musk offer to buy company
> If an online retailer already has your payment info and shipping details

This is specifically for the case where the retailer does not want to store these details. Heck they can even get away with not building a user account system at all. Just a store listings page and a few lines of code imported from Stripe.
You are assuming that a person who is cautious about privacy, uses facebook. Unlikely.
However, I have been in that alley. I renamed my facebook account yearly, until it got blocked indeed. But then again, there are some great ID .psd templates out there:P solved it immediately.
Drone possibly was scrificial. Satellite is not on demand and not in ukraine possession and would not show much after moscow sank.
A good solution is to make it impossible to use the more complex rules. For example:

- don’t put pawns or rooks in the first levels of chess, so that players won’t try to take en passant or to castle.

- only put cars with automatic gear boxes in the first levels of a racing game, so that players won’t try to switch gears manually.

- don’t have under water/vacuum spaces/mountains/swamps or more advanced enemies or weapons in the first levels of a first person shooter.

That may not work for every game, though.

You can also make the UI visually distinctive in the earlier levels. Less detailed images may help cue the user that they have fewer/simpler features.
The vast majority goes to defense, social security, medicare/medicaid. Which ones should we dump? I mean we'd have to dump them all to go to the tax rate you propose, but where should we start?
> In true HN fashion, first-mover / market-leader Sonos isn't even mentioned yet.

market leader? no idea. first-mover? wrong. Slim Devices were the first mover in this space with the Squeezebox (subsequently purchased by Logitech). Sonos came shortly afterwards.
Reminds me of the centrifuges that people would build for Pumpkin Chunkin, a competitive pumpkin throwing contest from Delaware, USA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2GeuWqNXWU
Supply & Demand does not require perfectly competitive markets.
I don't think Elon's fan base are any more capable or driven. I would argue Trump is vastly more popular on social media than Elon and that Trump supporters are at the very least motivated for reasons outside of billionaire worship and straight trolling.
Meta's CTO teases a web version of Horizon Worlds metaverse platform
Not necessarily “misinformation” exactly, so much as just general “fog of war”.
Defense-in-depth includes obfuscation of position, signals warfare, first-strike, and strategic deterrents.

If you put a carrier group in a pond and lob missiles at them, I'm not confident in the outcome either.
Because it's much less likely to be found.

One rumor I've heard for a while is that messing with the doping at the right time can bias HWRNGs in a way that you wouldn't be able to notice even with physical inspection with an electron microscope.
isn't there also aux/reboot? Or is that just symlinked/deprecated?
How to Hack Ethereum Smart Contracts and Get Away with It
They should immediately rename it so as not to be caught the way YouTube Vanced was. A disclaimer is not a sufficient response to trademark issues.
Modis spacecraft incident, operating in safe mode with all doors closed
The battlecruisers are actual battlecruisers including having a lot of deck guns. They are nowhere near Ukraine though. Seemly their job is patrol seas where US warships might attack Russia.

Also I`ve read the reason Iowa Battleship in USA is not fully decomissined is just in case they need it to take out the two Russian battlecruisers... not likely to be nededed but "just in case"
Neither are the rest of us.
This comment is at negative 4, apparently a number of people don't agree that war is a waste.

The labor that went to make the ship was wasted, the pollution caused by manufacturing was a needless waste, the materials could have been used for another less wasteful purpose. And unless the ship is raised and recycled, it will just rust in oblivion on the bottom of the black sea.

How about we just don't.
I asked "what's up" and it replied "Heaven".

Thank you for my biggest laugh of the day.
You're saying the word "unpredictable" but with cognitive dissonance, because you are predicting disaster.

If it is truly unpredictable, then you may be diminishing something which may actually be beneficial and necessary in the future.

This obfuscated data which may or may not be linked to you (or the lack of data entirely, a void which certainly is linked to you) is itself forever persistent and represents its own infinite liability.

Not to say that you're wrong or right, just pointing out that your claim of somehow rising above this system is bogus. No matter what we do, our mark (be it a shadow profile or a void) is left, and perceptions will form around it that cannot be predicted.
I recognize its Russia's propaganda, but I enjoy corrupting their propaganda / words into other uses.

There is truth in this matter: USSR was composed of many modern nations. This whole "Moskva ship sinks" thing is almost entirely Ukrainian, historically speaking. Ukrainian-built ship, brought down with Ukrainian missiles, with the Russians renaming the ship to Moskva to try to "steal" its way into history.

I find this entire situation deliciously ironic for the Russians. It really shows how much of a paper-tiger they are, and how much Russia is trying to steal the USSR's name and history for themselves.
I'm not sure I'd characterize that particular trail as "no traffic" [1]. Large segments of the route you describe are along country roads where you share the road with cars and trucks traveling at 55mph. As much as I wish it weren't so! That'd be so much fun. :)

Perhaps you're thinking of the Erie canal trail (Buffalo to Albany), which is composed of a much higher proportion of bike trails?

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/nyregion/ny-e...
Oh sinking? That's not a bug
>Personally I would absolutely not mind being “harassed” by text, if I was also able to exercise wide spectrum of free speech myself.

This is precisely the idea behind 4chan.
>Corsair

Corvette.
My programming experience went from bash to c to sorta c++ but really c. That was me for ~10 years. I got into python 2 years ago. I can easily and affirmatively say I won't be coding in C ever again. You might try to argue that you need C for X, Y, or Z. You are certainly right, BUT really you really just identified the X, Y, or Z place that needs someone to start converting to python. You should be that person! I believe in you!

I <3 Python so much. I highly recommend every C programmer give python a good try, your next hobby project better be a python project.. You will do the same thing and love Python.
I think part of the issue with using another language can be highlighted here

> The problem with the current build system could be characterized as too large a gap between C and make and the next runnable element, which is either Chez Scheme or Racket BC; neither of those are simple to build. Zuo, a tiny Racket, is an intermediate step to bridge that gap.
The distinctions between surface warship classes are somewhat arbitrary. Some modern frigates and destroyers are larger than WW2 cruisers. Originally cruisers were lightly armored vessels intended for long range, high speed commerce raiding to disrupt enemy logistics. They weren't intended to stand in the line of battle and slug it out with heavily armored battleships. But now modern cruisers carry large numbers of missiles for attacking other ships, or striking surface targets, or defending an aircraft carrier from air and missile attacks. So the key distinction that characterizes a cruiser is basically just "more missiles".

The US Navy is gradually decommissioning their cruisers and can't afford to build new ones.
"Top contenders are missile and inept crew."

It could also be sabotage by a Russian crewmember or foreign infiltrator.
I didn't see any of that in LA when I lived there. Common in NYC though.
I have no idea about the US patent system. But it sounds so weird to me that only Amazon could do this for 20 years. It seems like a simple feature to implement for any e-commerce platform.

Did this patent apply also for non US companies?
Woops, there goes my Starcraft part of my brain corrupting my military part of my brain. Thanks for the correction, I just edited it in.
The elimination of large chunks of the Ukrainian army in a single detonation could lead to the stated goal of the invasion, which was regime change in Kyiv.

It would be a calculated risk that the response from the West would be much like it has been so far. We're not talking "The Day After," but more like a really big bomb and 2,000 more where that came from. The response to the invasion has been fragmented at best, and it's not unreasonable to think that would continue, especially given a county that has demonstrated a willingness to use nuclear weapons in battle.

I'm not saying this is likely, but more speculating as to what series of events would cause the scenario to play out.
The joke on our submarine was that aircraft carriers should more properly be called "targets." Sweden has a super quiet submarine design using Sterling engines:

A Stirling engine is particularly well suited for a submarine because the engine is nearly silent and can use the surrounding sea water as a heat sink to increase efficiency

In 2005, HSwMS Gotland managed to snap several pictures of USS Ronald Reagan during a wargaming exercise in the Pacific Ocean, effectively "sinking" the aircraft carrier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland-class_submarine

My own opinion is that aircraft carriers are very effective in projecting power around the world during peacetime or low intensity conflicts, but military planners recognize (I hope) that they will be quickly sunk in an all out war and have contingency plans.
We literally KNOW about the Intel ME and AMD PSP and we KNOW about all the windows telemetry yet most of the worlds IT runs on systems with these backdoors. There's no need to hide it in the first place
I think I heard it on the This Week in Startups podcast this week (pre- takeover offer).

Edit: literally first google result for Zuckerberg clown car

https://www.google.com/search?q=Zuckerberg+clown+car
Sure!

1) Let's look at the ship I am most familiar with, the NL Navy Zeven Provicien class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Zeven_Provinci%C3%ABn-class...). It generally would have 2 types of anti air defense missiles, the SM-2 and the ESSM (both US-built, see wikipedia for their publicly available specs). Apart from that, there are electronic and flare/chaff passive countermeasures and finally a Goalkeeper CIWS for last-mile defense. I have little doubt that we would have been able to take on an attack of 2 Harpoon missiles. OTOH, the Neptune missiles are a lot more modern than the Harpoon and modern missiles have been known to do tricky things like having a pseudo-random noise generator generate corkscrew like maneuvers to evade the defensive fires. I'll also note that the Moskva was built in the early 80s (though refitted after the fall of the Soviet Union) and it was apparently quite stormy (so additional radar noise from wave reflections may have been a thing). All in all, IMHO it seems quite likely that they were indeed hit. Warships don't just suddenly catch fire, and especially in warzones when the opponent has sophisticated anti ship missiles it seems more likely that the fire was caused by a missile impact.

2) For older warships it could be possible. Usually they would have a rotating air warning radar and a dedicated targeting radar for missile guidance. An example would be the STIR (https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/stir-tracking-and-illuminatio...) on NATO vessels, basically a powerful narrowbeam radar on a servo pedestal. There would rarely be more than two or three on a vessel, so it might be possible to distract all of them with several drones. Modern naval radars use active phased array technology where the amount of tracked targets is no longer the bottleneck (in practice, you'd need dozens of missiles), but as mentioned before the Moskva is from the early 80s so they would probably not have this yet. So it could happen, especially in a stormy sea where the waves provide a lot of additional radar noise, but it is really only speculating without a lot more information than we have right now.
> why does a basic black and white rolex daytona cost around £12k at an authorized dealer?

Because they're buying a status symbol, not a watch.

> For non-watch people there’s a 10 year wait list to buy at that price but you can buy 2nd hand immediately for a LOT more

An excellent demonstration of Supply&Demand at work. Your example doesn't refute S&D at all :-)
Couple of questions that I remain curious about now that sinking has been confirmed:

1. Did it go to a bottom with some nuclear warheads onboard? What is going to happen to these? (Slava class is nuclear strike capable[0])

2. It was the flagship of the BS fleet. This I have been told implies admiral and their staff on board. Any news of the fate of the fleet staff?

3. Is there any news beyond 'all were evacuated' of the fate of the crew? Some news said Turkish navy managed to rescue ~50 sailors. What about the rest ~450[1]?

[0] https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/03/ukraines-next-nightmare-...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava-class_cruiser
No, the Kirovs don't have much in the way of guns. The main armament is 20 P-700 missiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov-class_battlecruiser

Lots of big missiles; the only real naval gun is a twin 130mm. (That's about the size of an Arleigh Burke destroyer's gun. The Iowa's 15" guns are 406mm.) If you're in gun range of a Kirov, something has gone badly wrong for the Kirov.
I don't think it's entirely clear that the US/Europe has the appetite to go to war over the use of a tactical nuke.