skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This Youtube video was posted already somewhere in end of November, way before the Russian invasion in Ukraine started but I discovered it when I started to look into capacity of Russian propaganda to create and direct larger human conflicts in the West using coordinated manipulation of media and social media.

I'm not sure who is the target audience of this video based on this unique style but it looks to cover the matter fairly exhaustive and as far I could conclude based on review of these events, it appears to be a realistic and truthful interpretation.

I have recognized very similar patterns elsewhere. For example Russia used numerous of falsified reporting of real events and complete fabricated hoaxes to incite the war in Donbas. The information warfare was used against two separate groups of people - ethnic Russian speaking Ukrainians in Donbas area and Russians in Russia. Goal of the information attacks against Ukrainians was to great unrest and wider support toward Russian intervention. Goal of the information against Russians was to deceive them to join Russian armed groups against Ukraine.

I have also suspicion that Canadian Freedom convoy movement might have been initiated and controlled by Russian propaganda through widely available Russian TV channels like RT and Sputnik France and social media. Many movement spokespersons shared beliefs propagated by Russian propaganda. This suspicion was further bolstered with the research that people against vaccination were more likely supportive of Russian invasion by large margin, that suggest that these people were more likely under Russian propaganda influence.

My personal conclusion is that Russian propaganda machinery can build very persistent and resilient but completely fabricated representations of realities that are very often held by the people under its influence even when confronted with undeniable facts. These fabricated realities are very important tool to direct attitudes of the targeted people.

This is important aspect when planning the communication with the groups under Russian propaganda influence.

For example it is widely held false belief that Ukrainian army has shelled Donbas civilian structures while none of this has been independently confirmed by the OECD mission there. Even worse, there have been at least 3 recent occasions where Russia's controlled forces have either bombed or shelled civilian structures like markets or even hospitals while it has been not feasible by Ukrainian forces because they have been out of range. Main motivation behind these attacks appears to be to maintain negative attitudes against Ukrainian armed forces.

These are complicated issues but must be taken into account in my opinion when communication with the people under strong Russian propaganda influence is planned.
“What does ”the brain finishes developing at 25“ mean?”
Hey there, instructions for installation are all here:
https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/mycroft-technologies/mimi...

and the source code is available at:
https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3

There is currently a Docker image, DEB package, and PyPI release.
> I suspect that in a generation or two, to walk into a home with bookshelves filled with books will be akin to walking into a home with original art on the walls. Both will be rare occurrences — even if the art is not by an old master or even if the books are not first editions or even classics. Their material presence on the shelves will provide aura enough

This is already the case today, at least for me. So many homes and apartments without books, or just a few decorative ones on a coffee table. Anytime I end up in an apartment with a decent bookshelf I get excited and immediately run over to judge their taste and see where it intersects with my own.
What’s that saying? Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence?
Didn't say much about availability either :P
crypto futures price often leads spot, not the other way around. However CME crypto futs don't really lead anything.
> It does everything in its power to remain unnoticed

It reports its user agent as "Ripcord"
WeChat has more features than WhatsApp but probably not the Facebook ecosystem. It's also far-fetched to say it's "far more efficient", given Facebook has to serve many more users and doesn't seem slow.
There is more tiktoks than the bodega one. See them all before you judge.
That sounds like the "generation" tag in Vale's generational references [0] or like how memory tagging works on ARM CPUs [1].

I love the approach, it's a way to get a lot more memory safety while not giving up a program's flexibility, especially in C's case.

Some languages are opting to disallow pointer arithmetic and conversion between integers and pointers. We'll see how it works out!

[0] https://verdagon.dev/blog/generational-references

[1] https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Arm%20Developer%20Communit...
Replying to myself because I think people are overreacting to the last paragraph.

There is a case to be made that BTC spot and future are not delta one. I did not check specifically for BTC, but often in crypto the liquidity on futures is much higher than on spot, which makes the futures market much less sensible to market manipulation, flash crashes, whale dropping, etc.

Holdings are also much clearer and easier to assess for regulated futures than for spot.
I see you havent searched prologis
> Nobody thinks about this...

How do you think they calculate the CO2eq's that went into producing this stuff? What did you think I was talking about?
It uses heat from the earth, it'll be CO2-neutral pretty soon and after that it'll be CO2-positive!
No joke. It took me at least 5 clicks to cancel. Still easier than cancelling my NYT subscription though.
> Israel disputed the idea that police are at a disadvantage due to encryption. Thanks to our growing digital footprints, he said, law enforcement has seen a “massive increase” in their ability to monitor people. “That’s more than counterbalanced any potential drop-off there has been over these new types of communication tools,” he said. “Overall, they have a much more robust picture of what we’re doing [and] who we’re doing it with … than was the case historically.”

This guy is on crack. Even the most incompetent, nontechnical kids can (and do) know how to use zero-config commodity software to obfuscate their IPs, launder their traffic and compartmentalize their online lives across enough disparate services over time enough to be unattributable to their offline selves.
Doom RPG Ported to Windows
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I find it unfortunate how far we have come from people being mad at SEC for not catching a lot of the 2008 era frauds.

Now we have people mad that SEC won't rubber stamp a spot bitcoin ETF to allow more dumb money to enter the crypto space as exit liquidity with fewer clicks.

We should be happy the SEC is taking a serious look in advance in order to do some prevention, rather than closing the doors after the horse has bolted which is the usual course of action..
To the best of my knowledge, all of them.

This is law, not an undergraduate philosophy of logic class. "Proof" in these contexts means providing supporting or contradictory evidence; the SEC is stating that a company that wishes to offer a spot Bitcoin ETF must provide sufficient evidence that contradicts the other evidence that Bitcoin's market is susceptible to fraud and manipulation.

Edit: The SEC lays out some of this evidence on pages 22ff.
Yes. Plus commands that alter dirty workspace files could just do a "stash" like thing.
It calculates the tax amounts and fills them into the IRS and state forms to be printed out
I can’t say I followed it until the end of the article but it is a great story.

The effect must be very small for it to be so difficult to measure.
> Facebook

Facebook only lost relevance to Instagram...then sure Tiktok is getting really big, but is economically worse for creators, and is kinda lowering the icome bottom a bit more (creators litteraly choosing by themselves to work for exposure).

If that is your example of the market regulating itself, it's a pretty grim picture.
Only if --hard is given.
The definition of a marker isn’t arbitrary, the question is what’s an equivalent good and where can you get it.

If you’re buying lumber then going to GameStop isn’t going to work. That alone destroys the argument that retail is a single uniform market. Instead there are thousands of different markets making up retail including everything from ebooks, cars, bedding, and so forth.

Amazon only needs to have a monopoly on any one of those and then leverage that monopoly illegally to get into hot water. Considering everything they bundle into Amazon Prime they are on serious thin ice.
Can't we just plant trees ?!? And take care of the oceans? Plankton and trees are the answer !

We are removing trees to build giant factories ?
Yes indeed, because there are genuinely more democratic countries than others. China for example is very different from the United States or Canada in terms of governance, and so too is this the case if you compare say, Cuba and the Netherlands or any other number of western European states.
Ask HN: As a data scientist/engineer/analyst, what pisses you off in your job?
my list:

1 - stakeholders often think you can make a whole business dashboard in 1 day

2 - people think that machine learning will solve all business problems, when in reality just some simple sql and sorting rules can solve many many problems

3 - people often think you can solve wrong business decisions and models in your data warehouse

4 - a senior phd trying to convince for hours a co-founder, that has no clue about data science, that he is wrong

5 - business and ux guys thinking that engagement, purchases, clicks are all deterministic
Bald person here.. I've been waiting for this question since I was 19; when I started to lose my hair.

When I was 14, my mom pulled back my hair line and asked my dysfunctional father if I was going bald. Talk about a "What the fuck are you doing" moment.

At 17, I was getting depressed about being bald. I would look in the mirror trying to see how much it changed.
At 21, I said fuck it. I'm a sexy beast, see me shine!

I went through phases during my hair loss.

1. Keeping my hair wet to hide the fact it's thinning
2. Trimming it down, combing it forward and swirling the back so make it look "tight"
3. Trimming it very low and looking like a boss
4. Shaving it down to the skin and having people ask me why I don't grow my hair out

Here's how I coped with it. I was honest with myself.

Sure I would like to have hair, but I'm not Elon Musk.
Did it impact my success with women? Yes, I think I get more women being bald. Why? I don't know honestly. Am I built like Jason Statham? More like a lean James Corden.

To make my situation, I'm a hairy man; pale (programmer) and I have a belly. I'm also seriously hairy... The only places I don't have hair is on my head, forehead, and palms; ironic right? Not on my palms? Wait until this shit turns gray... I'm going to look like a fucking Yeti.

Find your true source of confidence. It's not your hair, income, or job. It's the confidence you have in your ability to change.

I know you like having hair, but it's not what defines you. Plus, you're over 40 and thinning out. Congrats you lucky bastard :)

I hope you mentally get past your fears and concerns. Be honest with yourself buddy.
Look at how freaking close an incompetent reality show star came to overthrowing the expressed will of the voters. There's not a lot to feel good about.

We haven't DeTrumpified the nation yet... if he's not punished, then it was all just practice for next time.

[Edit] Oh... and the Republi-Cratic duopoly that infests Washington DC and exists mostly to suckle at the teat of lobbyists and the promise of future "consultant" gigs.

The whole experiment in government isn't looking to me like it's going to hold out much longer. I really hope I'm wrong. But we've got embedded growth obligations that haven't been addressed in our institutions.

Our infrastructure is nearing collapse. We've embarked on an insane project to turn all of our productive farmland into suburban sprawl, which in turn reduces the density of support infrastructure to the point where it can't possibly be maintained, dooming it to ever wider spread, and brown field inner cores.

[Edit2] Not to mention social media platforms - fracking our cultural fault lines, and commodifying the destruction of society.
Ha! A few days ago a showHN startup post pitched a business that charged $55 for 500 words of your content, edited. Combined with a game like this that charges editors money to let them edit and you’ve got quite the business model.
I see. Yeah pretty terrible.
Just one guy. One very political, anti-consumer guy.

ref: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Brendan+Carr+net+neutrality
Oh, I've been waiting to try this out! Love to see the multitude of ways to interact with it. The webserver seems really nice. Gonna try it out with Home Intent to see how it works with a full voice assistant on a pi 4.

Note: I am am the main developer of Home Intent.
It’s legal fiction in that the concept was created in a court to justify why a person at a certain developmental stage wasn’t really a person. It’s not a scientific definition, a “law” of nature, or previous cultural definition. The idea was created to advance a legal argument. It’s fiction in that the value chosen was arbitrary then, is not a discrete event or time period, and by the same standard, is earlier than when defined and will continue to be earlier as technology advances.

The practicality of saving a life is certainly different than the legal justification to end a life. The point of technology being able to support development outside of a womb is evidence, imo, of the organism being independent from the mother. If that organism is individual and human, (s)he should have the full rights of all persons.

To me that means finding options that don’t involve terminating lives when the mother decides they are not prepared to parent. Right now the options outside abortion place significant strain on mothers, but as a society, 50 years have been spent not investigating alternatives and going all in on abortion. It’s already possible to transfer embryos fertilized in a lab successfully into an unrelated host.

Ultimately it is a philosophical argument. I can’t find any argument that has convinced me that a human is a human regardless of the stage of development or capabilities of the person. I’ve argued that “viability” will continue to be earlier for the past 20 years and haven’t been wrong about that yet. It’s currently limited by technology, but that shouldn’t impact the rights of individuals (in this case the unborn).
The one topic that you left out was the online ads business!
I would agree in most cases that is the way it plays out, but then there is no issue either since SEC trusts futures.

In the case of direct spot manipulation, spot would in that case lead futures which would no doubt follow suit to whatever price spot had. Regardless, I'm sure there is much arbitrage between them, so saying one is trustworthy and the other is not, is silly in my opinion. Iow, if there is a problem with one then neither should be allowed, not one or the other.
Step 1 build a dooms day weapon to pump up the atmospheres CO2 ppm

Step 2 build another dooms day weapon that blocks out the sun to counter act the first doomsday weapon

Step 3 nations start selectively blocking out the sun for Russia because they invaded Poland

Step 4 Russia builds a space fleet to attack and hijack the space array directly

Step 5 western nations build a space fleet to defend it

...

Step 66 the sith have infiltrated the senate
Exactly! We have color monitor and yet all icons are black and white.
Nice analogy there comparing it to a linked list.
I remain unconvinced of a major recession, I think there are a lot of elites out there who are just angry that they now just can't borrow money for free, so they throw a tantrum.

The fed was consistently raising interest rates from 2016 up to the pandemic, and the u-6 rate was consistently falling, and median weekly earnings rising, all in the same time frame.
where do i send the check
It may be time for you to look at your own actions and how they impact those around you.
The paper buried at the bottom of the article is recommended over the superficial article.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3df9

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3df9/...

I was balking at the term "optical illusion", and it turns out that the word "illusion" never even appears in the paper. The paper has a lot of excellent illustrations and simulation photos.
Mathematical are often the "easiest" to learn, though they can be the hardest to "sell" when performing, because you have to play ups the magic and downplay the math (often forcing the "numbers" used is a great way to mask it.

Mechanical involves some training and skill to exercise well.

But above all I put the sleight of hand as the hardest to execute but the best when done well, especially added as flourish on top of the others.
As someone who lives with someone dealing with hair loss I understand OP's feelings. I also agree that giving nutrition, sleep and getting your body in shape a try. The whole prescription thing might work but if the hair loss you're experiencing is nutrition/sleep/stress/etc related it may be easier/cheaper to take care of the source of the problem.
Ironically, the big anti-Amazon campaign in 2020-21 coincided with Walmart launching their competing Walmart+. So I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Walton family themselves orchestrated/fueled a lot of this misinformation.
The definition of devils advocate is “ a person who expresses a contentious opinion in order to provoke debate or test the strength of the opposing arguments”.

I posted a contentious opinion by saying that direct USA/Germany demographics comparison is a false equivalence and was hoping for more discussion around that instead of going in the direction that the USA has bad policies.
Upvote for you. Appreciate you ferreting out the actual story.
Agree to disagree. Selecting a channel in Slack takes like 300ms for me almost every time. There seems to be an inherent UI lag with Slack and Discord. Ripcord, on the other hand, is instantaneous.
I haven't learned the hard way thankfully, but I certainly found it very surprising. It's not at all obvious, and the GUIs with git support call it something like "Undo changes" or "Revert" etc.
Please don't post in the flamewar style about classic flamewar topics. It leads to flamewars, which we're hoping to avoid here because they're so nasty and so repetitive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Your other comments in this thread seem vastly better and much more in keeping with the intended spirit of the site.)
Ask HN: uBlock Origin Filters for WSJ?
I used to really like the WSJ, and am a paid subscriber, but recently they put up some script that makes me disable my adblocker. Anyone have a way to get around that with uBlock origin or anything else? Some of the ads are very annoying.
As Morningstar has pointed out, Grayscale has the right to fix this themselves, but they choose not to. They allude to the fact that Grayscale takes a generous fee from the managed capital being a possible reason they don’t.

> Grayscale has the power to flip this dynamic. Issuers of closed-end funds can redeem shares at the NAV; this allows investors to sell their shares back to the trust, which would close the discount. Using the example above, investors could exchange their $0.85 trust shares in for the $1.00 of Bitcoin it represents.

[…]

> Yet the redemption option might be unpalatable for Grayscale. It would result in lower assets under management, as Grayscale would need to deliver Bitcoin to investors trading in its shares. The firm charges a whopping 2.00% management fee on trust shares (another factor that drives differences between the share price and the underlying Bitcoin), which it may be reluctant to give up with a smaller asset base.

https://www.morningstar.com/articles/1068472/the-problems-wi...
While true, it seem it still applies to SUVs. The Porsche Cayenne is big. The Silverado/Dodge RAM trucks are bloody stupid big : a combination of SUV and Yanktank.

The mind boggles when people go to a "support the environment" rally and then jump in these to go home...

I know it is predominantly Industry we need to look at regards environmental damage but personal responsibility has to step in somewhere.
Ok, can you help me understand? Are you saying direct stimulus is not a big factor in the recent inflation? If not, what is?

And would you say it's a good thing for the circulation you describe to float free of productive activity? I would say, sure, for a little while and in moderate amounts. But if allowed to expand without bound and continue indefinitely it risks untethering minds and markets from the material foundations that make it all possible in the first place
I think project.el is builtin
Nope. The look is part of the appeal; it puts function over form, and looks native-ish instead of like a webapp.

There is a theming system included, however, it only allows you to change colors/fonts of UI elements.
The easy and practical solutions are staring us in the face - eat less meat, use less oil. Wouldn't the research budget at MIT be better utilized in advancing those goals than such impractical moonshots?
Search the article url on https://archive.today/ - most are already archived, read the archived copy.

If not archived, then archive it, then read the archived copy.
Thanks -- I really had no idea.
This is just wrong lol. Cancel has never received C&D orders for Ripcord, and it does charge $20 for the Slack features. Please don't spread misinformation you're not even informed correctly on, dude. If they were going to order a C&D order to Cancel, then they would've done it around the project's start (around 6ish years ago). Actually research this stuff before posting posts like these, plz.
Shortly after completing my second class in thermo during undergrad, this topic came up between with a friend. The particular situation was wether to put the creamer in the coffee and let it cool or wait until it cooled and then put the creamer in. The wait time being the same, which would produce the hottest coffee.

I got a little hyper focused and spent well into the night scrawling equations on a huge whiteboard and I don’t think I ever felt that I proved it one way or the other.

I remember being pretty defeated because I thought I had all the knowledge I needed to solve the problem. I guess it wasn’t so simple after all :)
It’s easy to massively improve the performance of most companies:

1. Fire 50% of managers.
2. Use the salary money saved to hire people doing the actual work.
3. Wait for a while to see how much things have improved. Repeat if overall performance has improved (it almost always has).
>Twitters TPP program

That returns absolutely nothing when searched for yet seems intriguing. Please elaborate.
Building your own "barcode" reader with anything like a camera is surprisingly easy - you don't need much at all to get it to work.
Google’s ‘deceptive’ account sign-up process targeted with GDPR complaints
The only thing Amazon monopolized is a great product for its customers at an excellent price-point. Very few services come to match the value proposition that Amazon provides.
After all, they're pigs on the wing.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/79160/time-pink-floyds-g...
A simple application of newton's law of cooling will tell me that for most normal ratios of coffee and creamer, you want to mix them first. Because the bigger the temperature delta between the coffee and the environment is, the more heat the coffee will lose per second. Mixing first will lower the coffee's temperature, and will cause it to lose less heat per second.

Is there something I'm missing?
Nice, but the choice to implement a resource intensive AI project (CPU/RAM) on Pie in Python is baffling. I could not think of a worse implementation language for a resource constrained environment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.