skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Russians use these hashtags. Russians don't use Twitter that much and ones who do tend to be very westernized, introducing further bias.

The kind who fled to Israel and Turkey because they could not stay in a country that wages wars :)
Huh? I'm asking about the realistic outcome, whether that be denial of border crossing, criminal charges, or they choose to not examine the device and let you through.
> Awesome soundtrack

Hackers is my go-to movie as an initial test for a home theater system.
Title should be:

60-80% of Twitter accounts posting on Russia-Ukraine war WITH GENERIC HASHTAGS are bots

Most tweets I see don't have any of these hashtags
It's 14 years since Lehmans went bust. Plenty of people there lost their wage and their investments (in Lehmans stock) when the company went under.

Stock options can be great, but you need to be aware of the concentration risk.
I'm definitely in the "math is discovered" after reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
but clearly I have no proof.
There's another way for Facebook and other social media companies to make sure this doesn't happen without employing stupid algorithms that censor people. Drop the bots, hire a bunch of people to pretend to be ISIS or Stormers, and ban[0] everyone they come into contact with. Leave everyone else alone.

They won't do this. Why?

The way that social media is structured - and the way Facebook et all make their money - is to get as many people as possible on platform, get them addicted to the platform, and then show ads. One of the easiest ways to do this is to provoke and generate outrage - as you can see on Twitter, which basically exists to turn people into public figures and then into "villains of the day". This is also why their systems reject context; because stripping speech of its context is the easiest way to construct a villain of the day.

The reality is that these outrage groups actually tend to be really, really small and close-knit. There's a small handful of people who actually feed the algorithm new extremist content, and everyone else parrots them without thinking much of it because they're angry. Extremism only looks large and prevalent because social media is designed to create echo chambers and manufacture consent. And extremists just so happen to be Facebook's best customers - people who already have outrage to play to, who will spend hours on platform, and so on. Of course they aren't going to ban their whales!

However, an ineffective bot that just randomly bans things that sound vaguely extremist-like? That gives you the appearance of Doing Something, without actually doing it, and it falls in line with the usual Silicon Valley protocol of "if it's not worth doing at scale, it's not worth doing at all". Treating extremism like a weirdly-shaped spam problem gives social media companies cover and is how we get stupid bots that think a Holocaust movie is Nazi propaganda.

[0] I do not consider taking down the content of jihadis or neo-nazis to be censorship. Jihadis and neo-nazis are groups with explicit, stated goals to do violence to groups of people for what they say or believe. An ISIS beheading video is not an artistic statement or a political diatribe, it is a threat to other Muslims. "Get in line or you'll be next." Allowing this to be spread around as if it were speech accomplishes the goal of censoring non-extremists.

If you want to argue that tankies or ANTIFA do this too, fine, but the poster I was replying to was specifically pointing out right-wing extremism.
Rust is the new thing?
And here is a collection of 91,000 winamp skins! https://archive.org/details/winampskins
Stock price is calculated as a sum of future cash flows (dividends D, for example) discounted by time value of money (risk free rate r, for example): sum(P_n), where P_n = D / (1 + r) ^ n and n is a year. When rate r is up P automatically down.
Yep, that brought some quick flashbacks...
You're right, but it's going to take either a while or actively lower prices before people will stop feeling like everything is more expensive than it should be. Psychology matters for the effects of inflation on the macro economy.

I've definitely altered my purchasing behavior because things "feel" too expensive, and a few months of 0% MoM inflation isn't going to change that. Either in two years I'm going to finally get used to a cart of groceries costing $250, or prices come down sooner.
If you’re ever audited, the tax man may find objections to lots of expenses billed for activity X when all your income is from activity Y.

They’ve seen all these schemes before.
It's sad to see Section 230- which protects all websites & grants them the basic escape of liability for the bad things their users post- be manipulated & lied about by both major parties. Both sides are deranged & out of touch.

Sad scoring of political points by meddling with one of the only laws on the books that has allowed any measure of freedom of speech whatsoever on the internet. It's a hotbutton issue, but pointing at big tech & saying you're going to do something (but actually you're bashing America in the face) is no classier than wrecking the social safety net over "welfare queens": another way to titillate & excite, to make low & cowardly arguments about the very worst, but ignore the 99.9999% of use. This is such an issue of the day, but screwing with 230 is not where we need to go. And god damn is it so fragging tacky & cheap.
> I’m a pretty big policing reform person and follow this stuff closely and can’t think of a single case like this.

I live in Mexico and even I know about the Floyd case ... it seems you don't really follow that kind of thing at all.
Honestly, idk. It at least gives you grounds to seek redress via legal channels in the case that you do lose business. I'd hope that the threat of legal consequences makes them be a little more deliberate in their actions.
> Second, do you ever shake the feeling that having a book read to you is somehow qualitatively not as good as reading it from the page?

Why would it be? I get where you're coming from, as I generally prefer reading over audiobooks, but it may be good to remember that story-telling began as an oral tradition. I don't see why reading a story would be superior to having someone tell you a story. I doubt The Odyssey was a lesser experience before it was written down.

We live in a time where we predominantly use and prefer the sense of sight, especially as a means of information transfer, but maybe we should let hearing have some fun too. :)
Honestly, they should just mandate a 240V generator port (with a grid cutoff interlock!) on main service boxes moving forward.

Ideally, there would be some different standard connector so that the port would only work with inverter-style generators that have constant frequency / voltage as load shifts around.

Otherwise, people would end up frying appliance computets with cheap generators.

Of course, this would lead to an identical headline, but the body of the article would warn about extreme equipment damage, not imminent death.

I have to admit I am kind of curious to know what these 110V cords do in practice. Are half the outlets on the other side of the 220 pair?
Unless they have some reason to fear you, they'll just take it if they feel like it. Worse, if you're not Canadian they might send you back where you came from. And when they do it, they won't even tell you their names. What are you gonna do about it?
Hung two strands of holiday lights in opposite directions.
Yeah. This is a great point. I would be absolutely lost in life with ADHD and being without stimulants.
If you did this at any time in the last 10 years you were probably rewarded handsomely. However the macro environment has significantly changed and I don't think your past behavior would be predictive of future performance.
mods cant shadow ban. only admins can.
Two-Level Namespaces
I bought one of these on Amazon last year for a specific use case, and I’m knowledgeable enough to use it safely. IIRC Amazon pulled the listing a few months later and gave me a refund because it’s obviously a dangerous product.
Implement some existing c++ with gdnative.

Generate a planar graph, preferably without a Delaunay triangulation.
Historically, you whistled them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking), or you bought a hardware ‘whistle’ from the likes of Steve Jobs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box)
You understand poor grammar using context. This isn't poor grammar, this is a syntactically broken sentence, which requires more extrapolation for meaning. The AI hears "a lightbulb surrounding some plants" and understands the poor grammar using the context, i.e. understands that you mean that the plants are surrounding the lightbulb, since the reverse is vashingly unlikely to be what you mean.

End result: your AI is actually quite good, but HuggingFace IYIs give it a bad grade.

So: you fix the AI. You fix it so that it makes huge assumptions when it sees imperfect grammar. It doesn't necessarily pick what it thinks you actually meant; it picks utterly nonsensical crap (plants inside a lightbulb). That AI will end up severely misinterpreting human instructions, at some point or another. That AI is called HAL-9000.

But it passes Huggingface's test!
Google Cloud Functions Is Surprisingly Delightful
You hang up two strings of lights outside your house. Usually each string plugs into the previous string and it all works.

But if you get one string backwards instead of having a male and female connector to hook them together you have two males or two females.

Taking down and putting up a long string of lights again is a huge hassle. But if you could just buy this one little cable…
Had the knowledge too though. Many people lack the knowledge of how things work, as well as the inclination to stop and think before acting.
Private companies that leverage interest in war to drive traffic to their services
I think something has happened behind the scenes at Facebook where there are actually not really humans doing the secondary "review" or appeals process.

See my other comment on this article for another (less important) example. I'm guessing they're simply passing at least some % of them through a secondary automatic classification system.

Why would you let fairness get in the way of revenues?
How many people worked on that code for how long to get it down to that level of error rate? Nobody is saying that C/C++ programs cannot be safe, only that it's more expensive and challenging to do so. Given the regular cadence of the largest tech companies in the world[1] shipping updates for memory safety issues I think there's a enough evidence supporting that position that it can't be dismissed as “atavistic”.

1. https://twitter.com/lazyfishbarrel
I don't understand business model of the company behind Penpot (Kaleidos). Their products doesn't offer anything paid but I see a button "Invest in us". For me this tells that their products will eventually become non-free and only open-source in a way that it can export SVG.
Just a reminder any email you have online that is over six months old can be read without a warrant.
really impressive ... however i was a bit disappointed when i saw Milkdrop instead of AVS :)
This is false.

A friend came back to the US after 3 years. A time period you typically lose your green card.

However friend was smart to ask a lawyer and the lawyer said “agree to nothing, sign nothing, only a judge can take your green card”.

So she did just that. Put up with about an hour of shit. “No, im not signing anything”, “No, I don’t agree that I’m no longer a permanent resident of the US”.

Was eventually let in and nothing came of it.

Know your rights and stand firm. If some non-us citizen minority woman can do it, I’m sure you can too.
Could you make it play online streams?
Examples: https://legacy.radioparadise.com/rp_2.php#name=Listen&file=l...
Hackers is a fun movie. It has a fantastic time capsule soundtrack, fun sets (the arcade, the computer room) and some fun little performances (Matthew Lillard! Fisher Stevens!) It's interesting what the show gets right (little bits of phreaker culture, social engineering) and what it gets wrong (almost everything about how computers actually work). From a realism perspective, Mr. Robot blows this out of the water, but it's still fun.
I highly doubt that having an electrician come out to install an outdoor inlet would cost thousands of dollars.
Agreed, it's not optimal. I've been thinking about this alot lately actually, I think there's always going to be friction of this sort. You could argue it exists at all levels, for example when fighting infections your body often damages/kills it's own cells. Ofc. you can die from an overactive/badly tuned immune system, but more often, people die from not having a strong enough one! But we're not cells, are we.
All these cable stories always make me wonder: Is it possible to design a safe gender-less power plug? By that I mean one that has no male and female end but two symmetrical ones. That would not only be safer but also more convenient as there would only be one type of such cable, instead of three: (female-male, female-female, male-male).
Christmas lights often have a plug with prongs at one of the cable, and a socket at the other end. This way you can make a super-long one by just plugging one into the other.

I suspect that someone accidentally just started with the wrong end, and ended up with the plug with prongs at the far end, and the socket at the end by the electrical socket.
>>Of course there's never an excuse for misleading people via outright fraud.

Pretty fine and yet hazy line you're drawing there...

If you are having to fudge numbers, you are doing it wrong. You are playing with the symptoms and ignoring the causes of success. Get the fundamentals right - the a product, a product-market-fit, and then build. If you have to fake it, you are very unlikely to actually make it, at least honestly. (and yes, you can point to fakers who have even had a successful IPO, but I still don't consider the likes of Uber to have made it - $$billions of investment and still searching for a profitable model - a massive waste of capital and talent, and we still don't have our flying cars)
It's open source, so I can just set up my own instance. I just have to be careful to make sure that process is as easy as possible. You never know what provider may ban you so yeah that's definitely a concern, but that's why I build on only open source.
Related. Nice standalone open source music visualizer like winamp https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm
Sometimes even smart people might forget to pause.
This is what happens on centralized platforms like Reddit. Understand that the mods can’t tell the difference between your white paper and an ico scam “white paper” so to protect their users they just remove any new project announcement by default. I modded a smaller cryptocurrency sub back in the day and that was the only time efficient outcome.

A White paper announcement shouldn’t be made on Reddit anyways… the “traditional” way is a bitcointalk.org thread. The real traditional way is via an email list…

TLDR; make /r/kindelia and post it there. No other subreddit owes you anything and to think they do isn’t productive.

Hope this helps.
It's only bearable now with an adblocker. We're way past the point of unbearable.
You probably didn't install/enable hardware acceleration in arch as described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration
Because it's transparently true from the sheer size and wealth of Google. What makes you at all skeptical of that claim?
Edit: Can do restore, but it's a manual step.
After the Figma-Adobe deal, which design startups are acquisition targets?
So how is it different than just paying the employee cash and recommending that they buy shopify stock?

Is it just a user friction thing?
It does make me wonder whether we’re headed towards some kind of “breach via chaos” scenario. Clearly the attackers have the cell phone numbers of employees. Suppose they started mass texting conflicting information? It’d be noisy as hell, but take 1000s of employees getting a never ending stream of texts, purporting to be from their employer, saying “don’t use Slack,” “don’t use email,” “here’s a Zoom bridge for incident response,” “oh and here’s an MFA notification you should accept.”

This could lead to a scenario where no one knows what to believe, internal systems are down, attackers are setting up fake IR channels to get even more info, etc. There’s no way most companies could weather an onslaught like that.
The only reaction I saw from Russia so far is keep pointing out whenever they spot a Nazi on Ukranian videos.

To be honest this feels kinda effective, since Ukranians are not bothering in hiding the Nazi at all (most recent example: Zelensky made selfies near his bodyguards, and they were wearing concentration camp division tags on their uniforms...)

But when I talk to random people on street here in Brazil at least, it is more likely they believe in Ukranian propaganda than Russian propaganda just because they never heard of the Russian propaganda in first place.
"Once the products go on sale, the Act will oblige manufacturers to disclose incidents within 24 hours of becoming aware of them, and address vulnerabilities through security support and software updates. Manufacturers are required to resolve cyber security problems for a period of either five years, or the product's expected lifetime." - https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/16/eu_cyber_resilience_a...
It's not mentioned, but this is DEADLY for innocent linemen too.

They check the line before working and it's dead. They start work and some idiot without a proper transfer switch backfeeds through the transformer hitting them with 14k volts.
The ground wire is floating in an area that would have water in it, sometimes being electrically connected to the water, sometimes not, depending on the flow, how the wire is bent, etc.

He measures leaking voltage to the pipe and the water and gets readings.

There are actual safe inline electric water heaters with inbuilt GFCI, proper grounding, probably other protective circuits, etc.
Back feeding power from a generator through a receptacle rather than a proper panel interlock.
Why not put the power in the hands of the users? If a person does not want to see a film that deals with race (generally), let them go and flip a switch in their settings to hide these from their view (and similar for whatever other subject may be of potential concern).
Just sprinkle a few NOPS in your 6502 assembly regularly, so you can replace it later with JMP.
This is becoming more and more common at large tech companies. Stripe does the same thing.

Over the last decade and a half tech employees have enjoyed massive returns due to stock appreciation during their vesting term, and now employers want to eliminate that. Of course the flip side is that when the stock goes down - like right now - then employees benefit.

Ultimately they’re all going to cut out stocks entirely and just pay cash salary and bonus, like every other industry.
They have a strand of lights with a male and a female end, and they have strung them incorrectly in some difficult to change way so that the female end is near the outlet, and they don't want to move them.

or the have a bunch of lights daisy chained together and have run one string backwards.
There's this weird sentiment that the only people who use bots are the political party you don't like, and that's simply not true. Everyone uses bots; Russia, Ukraine, Republicans, Democrats, etc, and even if these parties themselves don't pay for the bots someone else will
I only did this for one school, but at the college I went to I was able to sit in on a class or two when I was visiting it before attending. You might need to ask for permission, but I'd imagine most professors/teachers would be happy to have people listen in. And more schools are recording classes and making them available on YouTube, so you can get a sense of the teacher's style.

Another thing one can do is, instead of picking a school, pick professors. Consider what majors the student might study, look at what professors are there, and look at things like what books they've written, have they written any interesting blog posts about their teaching, and that sort of thing.

Both of these approaches take more time than scanning a rankings, but it actually resembles much more closely how other decisions we make in life operate.

> some arbitrary evaluation function...

I think "wanting an Ivy" is a bit arbitrary, but wanting a small vs. a large school, or a school a certain distance from home, can lead to a very different experience over the course of 4 years.
Bryan Cantrill's LISA11 talk on this history of OpenSolaris provides a great anecdote for this, and it largely tracks your fears here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=1680s

It also, a couple minutes later, devolves into a hilariously entertaining rant about Oracle and Larry Ellison and the perils of anthropomorphizing lawnmowers, and it's one of my favorite things ever.
Having never owned or set up this kind of Christmas lights, I'm curious. What exactly is it that makes people think they need such "adapters"? Do they have female plugs somewhere? Why?
Your comment makes me realize that in the medium term, after most of the unlucky predictors drop off, you are statistically likely to be left with a few really lucky ones (i.e. if a thousand people are tossing coins, you're likely to get one guy with a streak of 10 heads), and these individuals are perfect to put on pedestals as rare and brilliant talents.
Plugging things in that SHOULD NOT be plugged in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L08LjkN1k70

In the video, the guy made once of those cords and uses it to electrocute all different kinds of things.
The image itself was 320x400 bitmap and the animation was done through palette cycling.
Checked it, it uploads single files. This is very expensive. Also, they only have server-side encryption. Also cannot handle restore :(
You can’t find these in brick and mortar stores for this reason. It is possible to make your own or buy them off Amazon.
Don't give cryptominers any ideas please.
This is not an exception. This is the norm. All major social media platforms operate under the assumption that it's better to ban 100 innocent people than to let one "bad" person publish something. The scale of censorship is ming-boggling. The scale of denial and ignorance about censorship on HN is even more astounding.

The big lie of online censorship is that controversial cases where most people think the person "deserves" to be banned are unrelated and totally separate from cases like this one, where it's obvious the ban is preposterous to anyone possessing common sense. They are directly related. They are created by the same systems built under the same assumptions with the same mentality.

This is not going to be fixed by "better" algorithms, because it's not an issue with the quality of the algorithms in the firs place. The algorithms seem low-quality to you because you're judging them by a standard the company running them didn't use.
- Higher int rates make it more expensive for companies to borrow, and to invest in additional production capacity. Depending on the company, this can cause their stock price to decline as lower investment usually signals lower revenue growth in the future.

- Higher int rates also encourage consumers to put money into savings accounts and bonds instead of stock markets, which lowers demand for stocks --> lower stock prices --> market indices fall as well (S&P500, Dow Jones Industrial Average). Movements in these indices are considered a barometer for the broader economy.