HN user
HN "flagged" is euphemism for "censored".
US Global Engagement Center (GEC) - "an obscure agency" "the worst offender in US government censorship & media manipulation" and "a threat to our democracy."
"You want censorship so bad you can taste it"
- Elon Musk
"the kinds of people that are allowed to have any influence on Wikipedia have been narrowed down greatly to essentially people who agree with the establishment left." "The left, frankly, is relentless when it comes to stating their point of view and using the organs of mass media—and Wikipedia is part of their mass media I think—to shape the world"
– Larry Sanger
I feel the same thing is happening to HN forum.
Another pathetic uncompetitive play from within US amalgamation blob.
This is world under 'Economic Hit Man' and the Rule-based international order.
Happy meal for the 'three Zuckerbrins', may they rot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...
The Usefulness Gap in Proof-of-Useful-Work: An Empirical Study of Pearl’s cuPOW Protocol
https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04819v1
All devs accounts anonymous
https://github.com/pearl-research-labs/pearl
https://www.together.ai/blog/together-ai-partners-with-pearl...
And push notifications have stopped working, even if app remains on device, calls no longer going through. Democracy, F*k Yeah!
Very interesting tool, but it's biased and not neutral from the get go, because I explicitly formulated claim in neutral way, but it automatically rewrote it to be western/wikipedia POV and then immediately proceeded to verify it.
original neutral:
US DEPT OF DEFENSE/DNAVFAC planned renovations to School #05 in Sevastopol, Crimea in 2013 before Crimea became part of Russia in 2014
The United States Department of Defense, via the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), planned renovations to School No. 5 in Sevastopol, Crimea in 2013, before Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
And the follow up
The phrasing "Crimea became part of Russia" is more neutral than the phrasing "Russia annexed Crimea."
Yeah, so my personal conclusion that this tool is garbage, it checks western/US allied only LLM providers, that in turn search only for western/US allied sources/documents like BBC/NATO and result is what it is.
Wouldn't trust anything about medieval or cultural from someone in general and in this case _mirelaivanova_ who is touched by oxford group think, who is abandon twitter in favor of bluesky, who talks about "the uses and possibilities of the gender theory in the study of medieval world" https://youtu.be/dK9qpHIWXRs?t=118
This checks out, and reflects obscene world of SV according to bragging insider Lucy Guo @lucy_guo
How to be successful in Silicon Valley:
1. Be born a man
2. Be gay
3. Hook up with the right people
4. Repeat #3 until you've made it
I've heard of investors leading rounds, founders getting multi million dollar contracts, and more.
It's wild stuff.
Not the paypal mafia but the gay mafiaoff-topic, but, please stop hosting websites behind cloudflare, just nginx is enough, cloudflare is cancer.
That being sad, Yann LeCun's twitter reposts are below average IQ.
Unfortunately for everyone, people like you tie their entire identity and income to specific technologies, movements, or communities—becoming deeply tribal in the process. When something or someone undermines their sense of security—even with constructive criticism—they react defensively, often to the point of ignorance.
All this, combined with the fact that Zig, at best is still in beta quality and at worst amounts to a massive waste of everyone’s time, makes it unsurprising that people block you and simply refuse to engage with your loud community efforts, endless churn and crust tied to beta quality compiler.
Zig is not really a handmade project, case in point both Andrew and I are blocked on social media by the two gods of the handmade movement (casey and john) and, according to their die hard fans, Andrew gave a talk at the last handmade conference that caused the community to split apart (the reality is a bit more complex than this, but Andrew's talk is certainly one that you wouldn't see at their new "better software" conference).
Andrew's talk is here (second event after the two people chatting while sitting on chairs): https://handmadecities.com/media/seattle-2024/hms-day-one/
Here you can see a particularly funny (but also sad) reaction by one of these people https://drive.proton.me/urls/MB1EB4EF34#YZdvmAvBFp1C
Regarding the links you posted:
In the first, at 2:30:40, Andrew Kelly publicly calls out a specific author of a competing technology in exaggerated, caricatured, and fabricated context.
In the second video, yet another author of a yet another competing technology directly points out this unapologetic and concerning behavior on Andrew Kelly’s part.
And now you—“VP of Community @ Zig Software Foundation”—assert your “righteous” stance by sharing these videos, while ironically pointing out that some of those same individuals (of competing technologies fame) block you on social media.
Too bad that doing your job probably means being as loud and visible online as possible to spread the molecules of Zig no matter what.
observe how EU is brewing another global humanitarian crisis, war or just idiocracy.
Free market y all !
OpenAI calls DeepSeek 'state-controlled,' calls for bans
no, story you mention is about internal USA matters, while this is about pulling levers of rule base world order, in attempt to keep world dominance and gain advantage in free market with anti-competitive practices.
Crazy government money printer at work, everything is subsidised. Observe insane inflation as byproduct. And Musk is ideal distraction in the form of benevolent visionary for multi-planetary dream, while in reality the only ones who pays for all this infrastructure in low earth orbit are pentagon with Starshield project behind the curtains that eats whole planet SIGINT with a motto similar to "nothing is beyond our reach"
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NROL_39_vector_logo....
Gosh you delusional or brainwashed on "rule based world order", where "cooperating with local government" in your statement in reality means "while foreign government behaves like our vassals and country is our colony".
What this tool allows US state is to circumvent foreigns government sovereignty and ultimately, directly guide people through communication channels via psychological operations.
By inverse(contradiction), observe what happens with TikTok, Huawei or "Chinese ballons" within US borders.
it is warmongering if country in question is the one who caused war in the first place.
Also, the U.S. remains committed to a safe, secure and reliable nuclear deterrent, he said.
really deranged warmongers you have there in D.C., there are no escape, only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
Only warmongering blood thirsty chipmunks can argue for what you are arguing here.
in light of enhanced nuclear capabilities of China and Russia and possible lack of nuclear arms control agreements after February, said Johnson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and countering weapons of mass destruction policy
nice lie, right there.
but world has changed, now you can just ask intelligent AI simple question "who tore up nuclear agreements and when ?"
Agreement: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, was signed in 2015 by Iran and six world powers (U.S., UK, France, China, Russia, and Germany).
Action: In May 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the agreement, citing concerns that it was insufficient to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions and did not address Iran's missile program or regional activities.
Agreement: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed in 1987 by the United States and the Soviet Union, banned ground-launched missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers.
Action: In 2019, the United States formally withdrew from the treaty under President Trump, claiming that Russia had been violating the terms by deploying banned missiles.
exactly, Linus and et. al. are just being a cowards to admit this and point finger to their own government.
claiming that Signal is 'in bed with the government'. Bulkshit. We know the people who work at Signal since when we were kids.
* Bulkshit * - put more unique slang such as so everyone immediately recognise Langley doing damage control.
Yes - if you're want to further enrich PayPal Mafia et. al. and other bunch of golden billion elites [1], otherwise - No.
Why is GUI builder for ImGui is not implemented in ImGui itself ?
I'm never using this editor unless it can install itself and work completely offline, without going for downloads and making web requests , it is crucial, especially after totally not related xz fiasco and the white house praise for rust.
Snowden memoir not simply called "Permanent Record" if you like to read, it's in chapter: Part Three - Fourth Estate, or in audiobook at 08:30:24
He writes about CIA CTO, Gus Hunt talk at GigaOM's Structure:Data conference in 2013, still available to witness https://youtu.be/GUPd2uMiXXg?t=1258
TLDR: “At the CIA,” he said, “we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever.”
The second event happened one year later, in March 2013—one week after Clapper lied to Congress and Congress gave him a pass. A few periodicals had covered that testimony, though they merely regurgitated Clapper’s denial that the NSA collected bulk data on Americans. But no so-called mainstream publication at all covered a rare public appearance by Ira “Gus” Hunt, the chief technology officer of the CIA. I’d known Gus slightly from my Dell stint with the CIA. He was one of our top customers, and every vendor loved his apparent inability to be discreet: he’d always tell you more than he was supposed to. For sales guys, he was like a bag of money with a mouth. Now he was appearing as a special guest speaker at a civilian tech event in New York called the GigaOM Structure: Data conference. Anyone with $40 could go to it. The major talks, such as Gus’s, were streamed for free live online.
I got insight, certainly, but of an unexpected kind. I had the opportunity of witnessing the highest-ranking technical officer at the CIA stand onstage in a rumpled suit and brief a crowd of uncleared normies—and, via the Internet, the uncleared world—about the agency’s ambitions and capacities. As his presentation unfolded, and he alternated bad jokes with an even worse command of PowerPoint, I grew more and more incredulous.
“At the CIA,” he said, “we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever.” As if that wasn’t clear enough, he went on: “It is nearly within our grasp to compute on all human generated information.” The underline was Gus’s own. He was reading from his slide deck, ugly words in an ugly font illustrated with the government’s signature four-color clip art.
now, coupled with pentagon shenanigans https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covi...
Nevertheless, the Pentagon’s clandestine propaganda efforts are set to continue. In an unclassified strategy document last year, top Pentagon generals wrote that the U.S. military could undermine adversaries such as China and Russia using “disinformation spread across social media, false narratives disguised as news, and similar subversive activities [to] weaken societal trust by undermining the foundations of government.”
Good luck trusting OpenAI's generative seductive female operative with Johansson voice.
There is new interpretation of existing executive orders that prohibit US citizens from providing anyone in Russia with
IT Support and Cloud Services: Any IT support or cloud-based services for covered software (like ERP or CAD) to Russian entities are prohibited.
Consultancy and Design: Services related to IT consultancy, design, or custom software development for Russian companies are not allowed.
https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/added/2024-06-12
So Uncle Sam allows only to consume and degrade and disallows to create and prosper. Should Russian citizens comply ? Hell no.
And I though that Skala, FP (monad in X is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors of X) people are pretentious sect, this is so much worse, given their customer base, I immediately presume that this is nothing more than approach to deliberately make things unintelligible for as many people as possible, so that your white collar hedge fund guy would have heart stroke just by glancing at this source code, not even trying to read or understand it, that is one way to treat people and make business, it is despicable. Industry needs to formalise this into well known phenomena much like Security through obscurity [1] so that kind hearted pragmatic people avoid this like a plague.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
That's it, ddg is gone from my Firefox and hopefully from my browsing habits.
Speaking about Firefox, it is insane how needlessly complicated it is to add new search engine to Firefox [1]
1. Open a new tab and type about:config in the address bar
2. In the search box type: browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh
3. Click on the little + symbol on the right. It should look like after you pressed it: boolean true value
4. Go to firefox Settings → Search. Or enter this in the address bar: about:preferences#search
5. In the "Search Shortcuts" section you should notice a new "add" button. search add button
6. Press the add button and fill in the name, search engine url and a keyword(optional).
7. Go to the "Default Search Engine" section and select the engine you just added.
Yes, in this case only way to not be spied on is to not go on the internet
Presume that duckduckgo is not private or otherwise compromised.
For example many things I search trough duckduckgo later that day showed up in my twitter/x.com algorithmic feed, coincidence ? don't think so.
It's not you, it's us
Bing isn't available right now, but everything should be back to normal very soon.