skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not say it is "unfounded" - but rather that censorship is ill-defined, at least in the public eye.

We have come up with words that are easier to swallow like "deplatforming" and "fact checking." Censorship occurs in many forms, and not all of it is directly blocking access to speech (IMO).

There is a common misconception that censorship can only occur at the public (government) level, but not the private level. As per Wikipedia:

"Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions, and other controlling bodies."

There is also the issue of orthodox views and orthodox privilege (as per Paul Graham's explanation). Many conservative views are not orthodox to the point where you can be canceled for merely quoting someone else or citing facts (yes, both have happened in the past). So there is some form of self-censorship (this is related to "social cooling" IIRC).

I think it all boils down to this: which side supports censorship and which side condemns it? There you will find your answer on who is more adversely affected by censorship.

Note: this is not a left or right issue, historically speaking. For example, look back to McCarthyism.
Most slaves don’t get to leave when the work loses it’s luster
Yes. And the part that is not paid to the Russian state goes to fill the pockets of Putin and his cronies directly. And then is being spent on things like fancy estates in Russia and abroad, as well as mercenaries taking part in conflicts in which the Putin's regime wants to have plausible deniability.
>” Would consumers spend less money? No...”

I’m not sure about that. A lot of advertising is about appearances and superficial things. Example. Do we need cars in the US to get from place to place (NYC, etc excepted) Yes! Does it have to have bells and whistles? No. Can an entry level car do the job in the great majority of cases? Does it have to be a “luxury” brand? Or an upscale model?

Spending would go down. Good, bad? That’s another discussion.
OK. And is there any basic foundation for starting, that enables one to understand Heidegger well? Some kind of primer for continental philosophy?
That's my impression as well. The system is so flawed that I try to stay away from it as much as possible. In the civil system, you can probably eventually get justice if you spend a lot of money on lawyers and wait for months/years. The criminal branch seems way more random and with any bad luck (being in a wrong place at the wrong time) you can go to jail while being completely innocent, and even the best lawyers won't help you. So, my strategy is to avoid risky behaviors (incl. starting businesses) to minimize my contact surface with the justice system.
You have a great list already.

I will say of the ones most often recommended I’ve always dislike tostoy as it read to me like contemporary celebrity tabloid news: who wants to fuck who and how’d they kill themselves, and Nabokov because it always read to me like he was up his own ass (with the exception of pale fire because that character defect plays to his advantage in that work when read as a piece of satire)

Recommendations include:

Fiction: Gogol, Gorky

Nonfiction: Solzhenitsyn

Journals/essays: Mandelstam

Poetry: Akhmatova, Pushkin, Pasternak
I love KeePass (proper; I don't use XC), but it would be nice if they had better support for hardware keys[0]. What I want is to keep my existing password and add in the hardware support -- just plug in the key, press the button, and be done with it.

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as a UX designer / product engineer, it's easier for me to jump into a nosql than to wire up a postgres instance for a small proof of concept project that I know won't really go anywhere
At a meta level, I’ve begun wondering if we as a society could plausibly “return to normal”. It seems to me that time only moves forward. We can’t un-experience the pandemic. It’ll be with us for a long, long time.
Specifically, I'm interested in what proportion of people have (at the point of death) had a bone fracture at some point.

I would assume that workplace fatality has been dropping (in line with ~all other forms of non-age-related fatality), but a look back through my mind-palace of anecdotal evidence suggests that a) more of the young men I knew than young women have broken bones and b) not far off 30% of the people I know, in (roughly speaking) the most economically privileged class in world history have broken bones at some point. What I'm curious about is the data to back up the anecdote.
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Curious, who's investing the $100M?

By profits, I assume you mean the fund's management fees, not capital gains on its investments, right?
The "Berliner Zeitung" (local newspaper in Berlin) says that the US has conflicting interests: Trump was pushing a market for liquid gas produced in the US by means of fracking; now Biden wants to get rid of fracking. The newspaper says that this change in priorities is an opportunity for Merkel to push for the project (which she regards as being in the interest of Germany). Still they are quite ambivalent because of the many conflicting interests around it. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wirtschaft-verantwortung/nor...
I wonder if this could be reimplemented as a Quake module. Might not be perfect, but should be able to get something fun enough.

It’s been awhile since I’ve dealt with those things, but man, goldeneye was the best game I ever played.
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I'm speaking of evolutionary biases, not conscious motives... in all species, the men go to war. Female lions do hunt, but they don't fight.
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It would be awesome if the users were forced to navigate a settings menu, find the app on a list of apps, and manually enable the option.

One can only dream.
One alternative is to simply use the system font stack popularized by Bootstrap's Reboot reset: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/content/reboot/#native-fon...

It gives you a pretty good looking native system font for most platforms.

Yes, it means you don't get as much control over your "brand" as a custom font. But it's a great option for those who value users' experience (fastest possible content load time, no font loading reflow, etc) over maintaining some nebulous notion of a consistent brand image through fonts on content/UI. The former tangibly benefits users, while the latter only (marginally) benefits the company/brand (99.9% of your users couldn't care less what font you used as long as it's not horribly out of place or ugly).

I would go as far as to say say this is the right tradeoff for most product/brands where your primary product/service isn't text-based (books, articles, other publications).

And if your layout is brittle enough to need pixel-perfect control over font dimensions, that's something better addressed through a more dynamic layout since it will also become a maintenance nightmare, as that's basically the antithesis to a responsive layout.
I've definitely heard of shops that compile COBOL and PL/1 in response to CICS transactions if the stored source is out of date.
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yeah json columns are a game changer and will definitely "disrupt" nosql usage, at least for my own projects
You can pick and choose words, but ultimately I'm talking about genetic expansion. This has nothing to do with morals, it's the will to power.
> Thankfully they couldn't; OpenJDK is released under the GPL. Copyleft works, people!

Not quite.

There are many commercial JDK/JVM offerings that are closed source and survive very well with their "secret sauce" (usually GC related), such as Azul's Zing JVM.

Red Hat's customer base that used JavaEE containers (and just Java code in general) was large enough that Red Hat could have easily decided to implement and maintain their own JDK offering - but they didn't.

Probably based on Red Hat's history of being a good open source "netizen", they chose to use the GPL code even though they did not have to.

We're all better off because of Red Hat's contributions to OpenJDK (porting to 64 bit ARM included) - but that's not exactly "Copyleft works!".
You can also say "we lose money and influence if you trade with that guy, so we'll pretend you need to be protected from him".
> a weaker immune system or microbiome is plausible

> Think of it this way: ...

OP already said it's plausible. Your image doesn't add to the evidence at all.

The truth is, we have no idea about immune and gene regulation. A lot of the simplistic understanding you learn in school is falsely making people believe the body is a "machine" we can control or even comprehend. Medicine doesn't know shit.

All we have, are some correlations with an increase in autoimmune disease, allergies and lymphoma, and increasing hygiene. Could also be microplastics or hormone disruptors, social isolation, stress, overweight, lack of sunlight, climate change... .

The immune system is insanely complex and a huge bag of innovation and legacy making many functions redundant and incredibly hard to decipher.

And some "healthy exposure" to pathogens really is a coin toss, as it may not be the contact, but surviving the sickness you benefit from. So a severe fever may slightly decrease your cancer risk, but comes at the risk of dying from, well, severe fever.
Considering we all are buying oil from
Mohammed "bonesaw" Salman's Saudi Arabia which likely financed a lot of islamist terror, I am not sure the difference is that big.
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My main annoyance for gemini not having http is that i do not want to run a VPS. My (web) site is running on shared hosting where keeping (or not) software up to date, keeping up with the latest and greatest way Gmail breaks email and any other admin-level stuff i handled by someone else (and also it is cheaper) - i just upload a bunch of static HTML files and anything else i need to share and leave it at that.

If Gemini used http 1.0 (like others mentioned) it'd work out of the box - not just for me, but for everybody else. But the custom protocol pretty much requires a VPS and that opens a can of worms i'm not interested in opening again.

FWIW i used to have my own "gopherhole" but since that one also needs a custom server, i dropped it after i switched from VPS to shared hosting. I still have the client i wrote though[0] and considered making a Gemini one at some point but the fact that i can't make my own site does hamper things a bit (and TBH i haven't updated the Gopher client for years either).

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To the extent that I understand your complaint, there is a functional architecture that alleviates this concern: arrowized functional reactive programming. https://blog.jle.im/entry/intro-to-machines-arrows-part-1-st... talks about it.
I've been using FastAPI for a while, and think that the API-driven approach that it endorses is a good paradigm for building web applications.

Since the design of FastAPI programs is often modular, with libraries and modules extending the API with additional routes, it seems to make sense to build front-end components according to the same module structure. I'm yet to see any of these for popular libraries, but I'd be up for helping build some in libraries like Vue.

Does anyone know of existing projects/server frameworks where backend modules are coupled with front-end components that consume their API?
> But there are actually very few concepts in the world that are naturally modeled as normalized tables. We use that structure because it’s efficient, because it avoids duplication, and because when it does get slow, we know how to fix it.

Urmmm...How?
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Is there anything comparable to experience of Blacks in America from the cultural standpoint in modern (after Middle Ages) times? For example Black people were brought as slaves into South America and into Caribbean region in particular but were they excluded from the society in the same manner? Were Blacks in South America after getting freedom from slavery segregated in the same way as in US?
It is not a question of 'special effort' it is more of the question of why descendants of slaves were not viewed as part of the civilization, why there was such push against integration.

There are lots of things about US culture that are rather strange when looking from outside.
I am happy that this is happening. It was about time someone gave it back to FB. FB has time and again crossed boundaries for which it has had to apologize everytime. It seems like they cannot regulate themselves so someone from the outside has to step in. I hope this changes the individual tracking landscape a bit even though the Big G is still a larger issue that needs to be addressed
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I believe those are considered the man's job so the woman remains intact.
Could you do us a favor then and give us what you believe the key criticism to be?
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"Sen. Sanders is no white supremacist insurrectionist. But he manifests privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege, in ways that my students could see and feel."

Followed by...

"Yet, when they saw Sen. Bernie Sanders manifesting privilege, when seemingly no one else did, I struggled to explain that disparity. I am beyond puzzled as to why so many are loving the images of Bernie and his gloves."

What is this teacher trying to accomplish? Did it not occur to her that people are liking the Bernie mitten meme because he's got the image of a grumpy old man and that's endearing to people?
Of course Germany purchased gas from the USSR throughout the Cold War. Half of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc. What kind of argument is that?

But Nord Stream didn't exist back then. And I think that's the really problematic issue for Germany. It's one thing to buy fossil fuels on the open market, and another entirely to lay out tons of infrastructure spending to solidify your dependency on an adversary.
Thank you, great list of keyboards. I will go through all of them and try to read and see which one is the most silent one.
It probably would work if you didn't subvert it by trying to use the latest and greatest pip from pyPI instead of the OS python-pip package.
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I wanted to chime in as one of the software engineers on the team here to give another perspective (excuse me if this isn't allowed, I didn't see anything in the rules against it).

I think Upright is a really pleasant place to do development. We've got a good team culture, no boxing gloves or overly-zealous standards on code reviews. We maintain a low friction to push changes to production, but we still pay careful attention to quality. Though I'm not doing front-line customer support, I do get to interact with customers to gather ideas about upcoming feature or tell them when bug fixes / features are released, which I find to be really fulfilling. We're not constantly building concrete deadlines just for the sake of deadlines - it's really about "what would be best for the customer?". We enjoy shiny technology when it makes sense, or if it would make the dev team legitimately happier, but we try to keep our tech/design choices pragmatic. I think we've done a good job of embracing and enjoying the fully remote culture (fun on slack, off-topic video calls to catch up, that kind of thing).
I remember reading some of her comments a while ago and she seems like a pretty arrogant person. Probably doesnt know how to use postgres properly.
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To be honest, I dont accept the argument that extremly detailed tracking is the only way to show relevant ads. High level information is probably enough and I'm sure FB would still make tons of money by even showing random ads.

Makes you wonder if there is actually another reason for collecting all that data? Like building AI and ML models for other purposes.
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Yeah that was my point, 100%!

And by the way I really like you music analogy, and it’s emblematic of something even larger: they read about Shithouse Rats on Rolling Stone, named after a song of Bob Dylan or Muddy Waters or the group itself (don’t know which one) and all of them are quite famous and mainstream.

You’ve got to love mankind, we are awesome!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harem

Perhaps we can increase my "50" years to "200" years. For the vast majority of history, having less men was considered eugenic and a good thing.
> 3) It turns out most non-targeted ads aren't actually that effective, and aggregate ad spend is falling.

While this is a commonly held believe in many corners it doesn't appear to be well backed by data & research. Freakonomics also covered this topic in some detail recently.

Some examples where it's proven untrue:

Nytimes drops targeted advertising in Europe: https://digiday.com/media/gumgumtest-new-york-times-gdpr-cut...

>“The fact that we are no longer offering behavioral targeting options in Europe does not seem to be in the way of what advertisers want to do with us,” he said. “The desirability of a brand may be stronger than the targeting capabilities. We have not been impacted from a revenue standpoint, and, on the contrary, our digital advertising business continues to grow nicely.”

Danish broadcaster grew revenue after dropping targeted ads: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/24/data-from-dutch-public-bro...

>The data shows the NPO grew ad revenue after ditching trackers to target ads in the first half of this year
Thank you for the nuance. We have trade offs we have to consider. Hygiene on balance improves health, but it has unintended consequences which we have to be aware of and need to be addressed.
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What makes the destruction of Columbia even worse is that NASA had more or less seen the same issue before - shedding of the SRB foam insulation - not even two missions after the Challenger disaster. The mission was nearly lost for the same exact reason, failure of a compromised TPS.

https://www.americaspace.com/2012/01/30/into-the-black-nasas...
> Not so sweet? The blindness I see, of so many (Bernie included), to the privileges Bernie represents.

What does not being blind to this privilege look like? I agree that there is an angle to read Bernie and his mittens as an example of privilege. But I would also say that the outcome of the mitten craze has been, overall, positive.