Yeah, I second this. Like other comments have mentioned, you'd expect a human to add a video to such a post. I wonder what urged this robot to post this to HN.
The other code author is a "Dr. Josh C. Simmons" whose GitHub profile leads with "Building AI systems and influence architecture at scale." and "Founder @ Meridian Strategic Systems — Running experiments in cognitive systems, behavioral modeling, and automated influence generation."
So, my guess is that this a prototype of whatever Meridian is going to be doing.
Ukraine was historically more or less a free-for-all as far as front-line cinema is concerned.
I have to imagine the situation in Iran is more difficult for a few reasons:
1. Gen AI is much better today than it was in 2022. So, both sides can generate much more realistic fakes.
2. There was an article here on HN about Iran's internet slowly coming back on a whitelist basis. We're probably getting more pro-Government videos now than we were at the beginning of the current events.
3. Further crackdown on Starlink minimizes authentic leaks (I only heard about this and have no way to confirm how impactful this really is)
I'll add my own anecdotal agreement with your suspicion though - the footage coming out of Iran has been, for me, more difficult than other conflicts to piece together into a cohesive story. Western countries are claiming 30k+ dead, and while I don't necessarily reject the claim, the situation on the ground is still very blurry to me.
Definitely part of it. But the Mexican leftists I know are equally silent. As they were on Ukraine too. It’s really only when then can root against the US or Jews, as far as I can tell.
Does anyone know how Iranians are _actually_ communicating right now? I remember seeing here on HN (admittedly a long time ago) some Bluetooth-mesh technologies that promised decentralized solutions to these very type of problems
At that time they created a bunch of spammy noise which caused the social media businesses significant expense.
They did that in order to run their foreign interference in US elections agenda, and their foreign agenda of late; and we don't like foreign interference in our elections either.
Note the fathers of the sarcastic TV show South Park, all bouncing around on their satellite internet access.
So like they are very heavily DPI censored though and maybe govts able to spy on any messages you send right now but I feel like there is a still possibility that for the average communication, they might still exist but although heavily heavily censored/bad and I feel like protestors might not be able to communicate (which I feel like is the question you meant to be asking)
So TLDR: protestors must have a hard time sadly and they may be using bluetooth mesh or other tech, only they can tell after we figure things out but also lets say some major services websites might still exist after all if they bypass the dpi censorship for IPv4 services.
In my opinion, I feel like Protestors must be using mesh based technologies as you mention. We'll see what really ends up happening after we get some reports from Iran.
It is said they pulled the plug for all peering on Thursday, although I would assume some kind of government-run ISP may be operational still (I haven't checked Cloudlfare radar)
Pardon me but can you please provide me more context regarding it. I am genuinely confused about the ground state of reality in Iran right now regarding Internet access at all
can you please take a look at cloudflare radar and see what the current ipv4 connectivity means? Even Ipv4 was blocked for sometime but then it got back to normal in the graph shown in cloudflare radar
Can you please tell me what you mean by plug for all peering? Like complete internet blackout?
Very interesting to see "Technical Analysis" in this list. I'm no expert in the field, and TA always seemed like quackery to me, but I suspect many more people believe in it than for example Cryptozoology. I personally know someone who even took a course in TA, couldn't imagine anyone taking a course in looking for Bigfoot.
Technical Analysis is a bit of a mixed bag. Some parts are fairly mainstream like saying there's a bull market in tech stocks is essentially part of it. On the other hand a lot of it is like tea leaf reading.
According to UN law the one that matters is the security council. But of course, the ICC has already change the rules of genocide twice and still hasn't managed to convict Israel.
That could be an indication that it's just not reasonable. Wait, sorry, what am I saying, CHANGE THE RULES AGAIN! We just KNOW the Jew did it!
UN law isn't really a thing. I see this misconception a lot, that people think the UN is some kind of international law. The reality is that the UN is a debating forum, subordinate to everything else that exists. Countries used to bomb each other a lot. The hope with the UN is that, instead of countries bombing each other, sometimes they will merely yell at each other, agree on who would be able to outbomb the other, not actually bomb anyone, and then lives will be saved. Actual violence is replaced by words and consensus. The Security Council permanent members are countries that you cannot possibly hope to outbomb, because they have nukes (well, the list is somewhat outdated), which is why they have veto power. A veto is the verbal replacement for launching a nuke. You (as a leader of a country) are free to defy a veto - the UN won't come after you, since it's not the law. But you should expect the vetoing country to nuke you or something equivalent, for real. You can also expect no other country to help you - they basically already agreed to that, by agreeing to the rule that lets nuke countries issue vetos.
The UN is 200 different things. From human rights agreements to regulating what network clocks synchronize against and how much a letter from Sydney to San Francisco costs.
Can you also explain what the League of Nations is ... and why the UN was created ? (or should I say, why the League of Nations was renamed)
If they're better - yes. ChatGPT is a very different product from Google Search. Return on Ad Spend could be significantly higher than even Google/Meta/ByteDance can offer.
