skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with most of this. “Journalists (of integrity) are dying out” is a simplification. To your point, the whole of journalism is changing—as you mention, fact checkers are being fired and so on, but to my point, newsrooms are hiring and promoting the journalists (and editors, etc) who show a penchant for sensationalism and/or partisanship because that’s the new business model. And the journalists with integrity are increasingly relegated toward obscurity (although of course there are exceptions who prove the rule). That’s the sense in which I meant “journalists with integrity/bravery are a dying breed”.

I also agree that Substack isn’t going to reinvent the Walter Cronkite era of journalism overnight if ever. Replacing sickly institutions (which evolved over many centuries) is hard, especially when those institutions’ illness is derived at least in part from the same cultural pathogens that the new platform is likewise subject to. On the other hand, it feels necessary to at least try something different than the mainstream toxicity. I doubt Substack will be the answer, but I think it could either be a first step toward a new media landscape or perhaps the threat that causes the established media to shape up.
legacy of Henry Kissinger.
My understanding is that this is pretty common for every courier including UPS and FedEx.

Why? Because the driver will have a set of deliveries. Once they’re finished those they’re done for the day.

In NYC at least finding a restroom and finding parking (even double parking) beat it takes valuable time. It saves time to pee in a bottle.

This just isn’t unique to Amazon is all I’m saying.
Peroxide eats away at the enamel layer. It's not good for your teeth. You might want to combine sensodyne or similar toothpaste with your treatment.
I think this is a pretty good overview of what the US is trying to achieve with all these Xinjiang narratives

https://youtu.be/mH-0l_zToN4
Lots of truckers so this.
Center for Global Policy said
Yes you can, as long as you are not building it for his company.
So in a "free" market, one side has all the bargaining power and the other side has none of it? What does a free market mean to you?
I assume some fairly high percentage of FAANG developers are on some kind of lawfully obtained prescription stimulant.
Any guesses as to whether the causality is more "night stocking is tough -- better pop some meth to up my productivity" or "night stocking seems like a good way to earn cash while I'm high on meth"?
I'm missing the part where they show the causation and not just the correlation.

Not a bad move in any case. Throwing drug users and sex workers in jail doesn't make one shred of sense.
I really enjoyed watching both of them on stream. They were so warm and fun and seemed to have a great community of friends around them. It’s heartbreaking to hear of Jonas’ passing. My heart goes out to Heather and his family and friends.
Yeah, but zoning outside of the city is a. Much more permissive, b. There are many places to build, and c. There is little demand for the type of housing that is blocked by zoning (ie. Fourlplexes and above) outside of the city.
The richest people list do not include those who are good at hiding their wealth
Well, Communists promised a fix to social darwinism. We could all witness the results. Any other ideas?

>no-one in this ecosystem is actually interested in helping the poor/sick/kids or other powerless

A lot of people are, it's just they have no cash.
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it's a great symbolic gesture
Wow, amazing. The people who’ve accumulated the most wealth are selfish.

Who would have guessed!
> isn’t the end of the world

... if you're a man.
Facebook is a private platform, so they should be able to censor whatever they want as long as it is not discriminatory against protected characteristics.
Guide on how to contribute code to Signal?
Just to add, you file manager probably does SCP and SFTP too. So, on Linux just launch whatever tool you use to browse and copy files, it will probably work seamlessly.

It's Windows that does nothing out of the box, so people has to go after tools.
Ah, the old economics joke:

> Two economists are walking down the street, when they pass buy a luxury car dealership. One economist says, "I really want that Ferrari!" The other economist replies, "Clearly you don't!"

And the other one that isn't as relevant but is funny:

> Two economists are walking down the street, when one of them sees something on the ground. She says, "hey, is that a $20 bill on the ground?" The other economist replies, "obviously not, otherwise someone would have picked it up already!"
> trended sharply away

This is not my perception at all, do you have any evidence or anecdata for that claim?

The BBC has always produced a varied mix of palatable mainstream entertainment, niche entertainment, independent news and investigative reporting. Criticism of the BBC for being too mainstream or not mainstream enough is as old as the BBC.

In any case, compared to the US it's a completely different world.
Amazon's actions have absolutely nothing to do with this.

US Senators should not be threatening retaliation against a company because of tweets that piss them off.

Why is this only bad when Trump or a Republican does it?
Interestingly, Germany is also known for its unusual (within EU) acceptance of modified cars and high speeds...

Where else can you expect a heavily modded Volkswagen Golf from the 90's to overtake you at 220 km/h on your way to work?
We've definitely ordered prints directly. At best, they've been IKEA poster quality. Might as well just use Kinkos.

There's a modest niche opportunity for a high end print shop to just handle it. White label the service so museums can reskin, rebrand, integrate.

I pitched the notion to the two local shops I use (high end, preferred by artists). Build relations with some museums, create a simple e-commerce site. No interest. I get it; Print is a dying industry and the old farts are just holding on until retirement.

I'm happy to pay real money for real prints. I hate fussing with this stuff and being responsible for the results. While I wrote software for print production manufacturing, I never touched the color calibration stuff. I'm just not temperamentally suited for that kind of work.

FWIW, the best source of true color images, for doing master copies, have been art coffee books from the 80s and 90s. When the print industry was basically printing money, some publishers took quality seriously.
I have some anti-china bias (personal background), but many times these Xinjiang articles only cite Zenz et al. I would really appreciate better investigative journalism on this front.
Another problem is that something like this can function as "evidence" for the claim. There are large groups of people who believe that censorship like this validates a worldview in which powerful interests are censoring true information in order to maintain control. It's similar to the Streisand Effect or "Banned in Boston" but for belief rather than attention.

It seems like the better solution is to have an outpouring of discussion around how and why the claim is wrong. Let others ridicule the statements, rather than shutting down discussion. You'll never convince everyone, but at least you'd avoid the validation-by-censorship effect.

I could be wrong on this though. I don't really have any evidence or data that would show doing it one way is better than the other. I suppose I simply prefer open discussion.
The US is so behind in identifying markets in technology which is what is leading to this dominance by a few companies and their resulting monopoly like power. We had already figured out that you can be dominant in only a subset of a market. For example Disney was forced to sell off fox sports channels when it purchased fox because it already owned espn and would have dominated sports TV. That’s the thing it wasn’t even just TV but a subset, sports TV. That identification is where we are behind. As of now no, one in the FTC knows what makes a market or why say YouTube and Facebook may both show large amounts of video content but are absolutely not competitors in video content space. It is because the functions are completely different. YouTube is barely a social network at all despite having users and comments and pages. Facebook is hardly a video platform at all because it isn’t profitable for users to focus on Facebook videos and make ad money.
> We understand that DA’s [driver associates] may have emergencies while on-road, and especially during Covid, DAs have struggled to find bathrooms while delivering.

> Halie Marie Brown ... told The Intercept that the practice “happens because we are literally implicitly forced to do so, otherwise we will end up losing our jobs for too many ‘undelivered packages.’”

Sounds like there may be a little more to it than you suggest.
Theirs bootloader is biggest barrier in running mainline Linux.
It's because that one is a copy of the original (still old, but ~100 years posterior to Da Vinci's).

According to https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/mnr/MNR00265 its last known owner was Friedrich Welz, an Austrian gallery owner, so the work must have come to Paris postwar to figure out whether it needed to be restituted to a previous owner.

The original Joconde is https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010062370
This is fool talk. Jan 6 and the entire MAGA movement to a first approximation is a grift. It is precisely the opposite of the French Rev. It is the selling of cake in the form of hats and delusion.

FB was allowing this messaging. Twitter not so much, T was much more aggressive at moderation.

Removing FB is a completely different issue for an app store than Parler, for obvious reasons. Parler also of course was funded by sources that were in US terms problematic.

Apple is going after FB in more structural ways. Google tried, but failed. FB is an issue for DoJ now.
Why is it coercive to have to join a union to work somewhere? Work somewhere else. If that sounds coercive then so should having to work at tesla to begin with. I think wage labor is always a bit coercive but I don't see how having to join a union to work somewhere is worse. And it solves the free rider problem.
This is a US government jobs program, first and foremost. Just like SLS.
Oh no, he has to delete a tweet! A two-year old tweet! The humanity!

This is ridiculous. Where's the fucking fine?
These people are doomed absolutely no one will help them in any way and although they are many they can never reach the critical mass to start a revolution. 570k isn't much in china.

"And so the idea... I'm not going to speak out against what he's doing in Hong Kong, what he's doing with the Uyghurs in western mountains of China, and Taiwan, trying to end the One China policy by making it forceful, I said — by the way, he said he gets it. Culturally, there are different norms that each country and their leaders are expected to follow." - Supposedly the leader of the free world
Almost all north XJ cotton is picked mechanically, around 70% of XJ output. Why? Because XJ gdp / labour cost increased so much that labour is increasingly uncompetitive. Hence 4000% increase in orders of John Deere cotton picking machines, followed by US sanctions on John Deere to make sure XJ relies on manual labour so US/Zenz can keep driving the slave labour narrative. The 30% in South XJ is still hand picked, much poorer and rural region where manual labour is feasible. BTW XJ cotton is heavily subsidized (transportation mainly), it's basically a jobs program (i.e. poverty alleviation). The idea that XPCC depends on slave labour for XJ cotton is stupid for the simple reason that it's much cheaper to not pick cotton at all. And even Zenz hitpiece does not find examples that these are anything but competitively paid positions relative to local wages, which is still significantly higher than bottom 40% in China, there are over 500M+ Han from other provinces willing to work for XJ south poverty alleviation wages.

Completely unrelated is US and India are the other largest cotton producers, one of which as record of forced child labour for ~10 years.
I would expect more nuance from an HN reader. It's possible for both amazon and warren to be in the wrong.
So much for freedom of speech.
(Yes, even on privately-owned platforms, because they have been previously deemed "public space" in court cases.)
SO OP gets to claim based on his anecdotal experience that unions are awful and full of lazy people.

But pointing out there are wildly successful unions filled with hardworking people is "cherry picking"?
I'm happy to pay more for deliveries if people have time to take a leisurely comfort break.

We need privatized toilets where you review the person ahead of you for how clean they left the toilet. Unlock the door with a special PIN.
Because within minutes of being published this post is filled with people apparently okay with defending the Uighur genocide that the CCP is carrying out in Xinjiang. Really sad to see such blatant attempts here, I thought this community was better than that.

Just to be clear: there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that these violations of human rights are being committed, anyone you see denying that is either ignorant or wilfully lying.
Bill Gates was a destructive businessman. His philanthropy is tied up in his "power" world view. The way the press fawns over his every word is nauseating and a part of this power dynamic. We worship the rich.
Vaguely related, in that it involves harvesting cotton in Asia: Turkmenistan uses "forced labour" for the cotton harvest. As I understand it, they need a huge number of people for 2-3 months, so people get drafted in. From the point of view of human rights I suppose it's no worse than a compulsory military service. (Or am I missing something?) Nevertheless, many people would prefer not to buy that cotton or clothes made from it, and perhaps such products shouldn't be sold internationally at all.
> It’s a fine line between hate and misinformation and dissent

"Hate" is a pretty Orwellian[1] word in this context, with a meaning pretty far from its usage a couple of decades ago.

Most usage I've seen has a distictively political bend.

E.g. "X are stupid and science proves it!" is not hate when X is "conservatives" but is when X is "muslims".

[1] see the section on meaningless words: https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...

> Don’t know what the answer is, we don’t want echo chambers of misinformation, but we want to live in a democratic society too

If we want less echo chambers we'd need to stop censoring and banning those who disagree with us, otherwise they go elsewhere, encountering those similarly ostracized and form a natural echo chamber.
Who is richer than Bezos because they have so much cash stashed away, pray tell?
Is that actually how things work? If so, that's downright abusive.
ZEB2 gene controlled large human forebrain evolution
Prescription stimulant? What do you mean?
There are actually 3 separate single-points-of-failure when you ship around the world.

Suez Canal

Panama Canal

Straight of Gibraltar- I think
If it helps him attract grad students, the ROI is better than $60k
Also, context matters. OMS avoided recommending masks at the start of the pandemic since no study showed the efficacy of it, and there was no mass production of masks yet. So recommending it for general population would only generate shortage of masks for those who needed (frontline medics and nurses treating the cases). So this is why they're so against it.
Chicago Could Have Become a “Paris on the Prairie”
Well perhaps that's not really Beijing's narrative? But an attempt at creating a you are either with us it against us narrative? Same thing was used when us went to war with Iraq but look where we are.
I am at a loss here: I don’t understand how your comment relates to the article or to topics related to the article.
Amazon is, to me, a glaring example of just how little people are willing to translate outrage over capitalism and wage slavery into voting with their feet. I've literally heard people trash Amazon's labor practices, admit that they've been Prime members for years and will continue using them, and then express hope that the government will step in and do something to Amazon. Since many of these people are individuals I like on a personal level, I don't push on this, but there's something disturbingly infantile about it.
For some reasons I thought more or less forced labor has always been part of the communist doctrine.

You are suppossed to always have a job whether you like it or not. The Xjinjiang thing brings this to a new level but I'm not entirely surprised.

When were the dissidents treated fairly in communist systems?
Warning: account affiliated with the CCP
> recommending bleach injections

This is a mischaracterization.
Like Ritalin or amphetamine in prescribed form, as ADHD medicine.
You are the correct. The poster has no idea what they’re saying. Never in the history of the world have a few hundred million people just up and decided to raise themselves out of poverty because they felt like it, all at the same time.

This is 100% a result of
* government policies
* technology
* international cooperation

Hell, there is even a name for the project! The Great Leap Forward.
Right to work is pro employee. If unions want membership they shouldn’t be able to coerce it. They should have to earn it and compete for it. If a union can’t survive based on voluntary membership then that tells you something.
A US-based think tank releases a report accusing a rival of genocide. I would be highly suspicious of this and look at it carefully.

For example, it’s authored by Adrian Zenz, a religious zealot who feels “led by God” to research Chinese minority groups. If you dig into his research and his credentials, it’s all pretty flimsy.

But, it fits the narrative the US would like to have about China, so everyone eats it up uncritically.
I checked Adrian Zenz on wikipedia.
Zenz is a born-again Christian, and has stated that he feels "led by God" in his research on Chinese minority groups.

He wrote report on Tibetan forced labour too. Quite an interesting source of news by Reuters
Have you never written a bug in your life? Should we not believe your conclusions too?

> His pretty buggy code infinite loops if pattern == "". Does anyone truly believe his conclusions, if he evaluates programming languags according to how well they execute buggy code? -systemBuilder
But they can engage in virtue signaling like the rest of us.

But in all seriousness, it would be optimal for a society that values liberty and freedom to move away from platforms to standards. No need to breakup FANGS if NIST or something similar defines qualitative API standards for social networks, or more broadly societal network services. And this will also be a huge boon for the startup space and true non-predatory innovation in the virtual services space.
Many databases can bypass filesystem and use block device (partitions) directly. But modifying NVMe drivers is pretty novel approach. Maybe Redis compiled into Linux kernel is not bad idea :)
Holy crap this is a cool idea.
Breaking up Big Tech isn’t an idle threat from Warren. It was an explicit part of her platform when running for president. She has always believed that some companies run afoul of anti-trust laws.

This far predates a spat with an Amazon twitter handle

https://2020.elizabethwarren.com/toolkit/break-up-big-tech
It was usually the former. It was a very hard job, nearly aerobic, job at least 3 nights a week (1-2 of the nights was working backstock which might not need as much hustle). On top of that, it’s between 11 and 7, some people have more than one job and/or have to switch between day shifts and night shifts.
Probably Adderall or modafinil
What was your job in france that gave you this experience?
People should start thinking twice before using US-controlled platforms/services/anything.
“Trucker Bombs” are well known - and “professional” improvements on the milk jug are sold (as are adapters for women).
The murder rate dropped Baltimore's all time high murder rate of 348 to 335 and 2021's murder rate is increasing. Compared to calls for non-violent crime and coming directly from the article: "The number of 911 calls for violent crimes did not drop significantly in the same period."

The title of the post is a lie.
It's the way of the road, Ricky
Hi Rachit! Great product, I have a question, do you offer (or plan to offer) an API for developers? That kind of makes it or breaks it for me.
I didn't say unions are not successful, I said that workplaces like VW or Porsche are not the norm in Germany. They're like Germany's FAANG; very successful, but not the norm for every industry employee there since they don't all enjoy such good conditions.
I could save time at work by peeing in a bottle at my desk.

But my employer (and the law here) doesn't expect me to do this, even if the nearest toilet is several minutes walk away.
I wonder why they weren't moving yet a different smaller ships from the Mediterranean to the other side of the canal to receive the blocked ship cargo first, and maybe also part of the cargo of the other ships later. That would gave more time to rescuers and improve the situation for everybody, one box at a time.
I have no truck with MAGA folks, but NYT joined the rest of the media in maligning a group of teenagers wearing MAGA hats as initiating a conflict with a Native American “Elder” when the source video shows a more bizarre (and frankly more newsworthy) story: the boys were waiting for their busses during a school trip and they were accosted by some Black Hebrew Israelites (including racist and homophobic slurs) after which the Native American man, Nathan Phillips (who was initially falsely reported to be a veteran, although I don’t recall if the Times also propagated this particular falsehood), tried to match his group through the group of kids in a very odd and confrontational style (by his own admission he didn’t think he ought to have to go around the group because he was tired of being made to yield to whites or some such). Hardly the “Boys with MAGA hats surround Native American Elder” headline that NYT and others ran.
I often use a socat docker container to proxy network traffic to docker containers. It effectively allows creating dynamic docker port mappings.

For example, I have a database with no docker port mappings (only a web application container in the same docker network accesses it directly). I can use a socat container with port mappings to proxy network traffic to the database.
9 comments at the time of writing this, and three of them are already saying this a "normal" practice. Let's get something very clear: making your employees work insane hours for a simple delivery job, at such a rate that _you literally cannot deliver your daily packages if you do not shit in a bag on the side of the road_ should be criminal. Seeing people with a cushy little job in IT paid more than 90% of their fellow countrymen consider this as "normal" because they need to have their cheap chinese products delivered the same day need to take a large step back.

This is not to go home earlier. It's the exact same thing as their warehouses, where the targets are set so impossibly high that you have no choice but to ignore your bodily needs. Whichever manager forces this onto their employees is at the very least a sociopath.
One option is to dust off the Cold War playbook for how we dealt with the USSR. Set up alliances and trade sanctions to choke their economy. Bait then into arms races and proxy wars to drain their wealth. Conduct covert operations and propaganda to foster internal dissent. And then wait patiently for the CCP to destroy itself. But there's no guarantee that will actually work; we're in for a rough time.
ML for the Working Programmer

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/
Has the panel of experts on censoring political leaders convened yet or is FB is doing bans on whims until then.