skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> German navy chief did not say anything with regard to factual state at Ukrainian borders.

Indeed he did not. However he said that such invasion to annex more of Ukrainian territory does not make sense. In order to run a very expensive and widely unpopular military operation you do need a good motive, and this means that whatever is the purpose of the military buildup, invasion is not the goal.

Russian military did not invade undisputed territories since War in Afghanistan and they now prefer hybrid wars or limited peacekeeping operations, rather than full scale invasions. They may provide some support to Donbas, but there is actually no point even investing in that. Minsk agreements are quite favorable to Russia, so it brings more value to persuade Germany and France that Ukraine needs more pressure to implement them. No, the real target of this buildup is NATO, playing Biden into signing new security treaties.
> There are all sorts of viable competitor apps

> monopoly

You lost me there. Are you using a different definition of monopoly than the usual one?
UCEPROTECT is a scam. Blocking innocent people and asking them for money has nothing to do with security.
The good thing is that most email servers do not use it because it's just bad.
The bad thing is that Hotmail uses it (or at least was at until recently). It does mean that, as a Hotmail user, there's legitimate email that you won't receive.

I do wonder if the guy behinf this scam is randomly blocking whole ip ranges to make a living, having enough people agreeing to the racket.
I think the way they do iCloud is better than TimeMachine. I have tons of time machine backup drives that have useless junk from the OS and libraries installed but really all I want is my files that are important. iCloud gives a pretty seamless experience for that right now. I’m not sure time machine adds a lot. Maybe adding versioning (if they don’t already have it) might be a good add but otherwise I wouldn’t change how they do iCloud now.
You’ve misunderstood and somehow taken me to be saying the inverse of what I actually wrote, so thoroughly that it is difficult to see how you could be making a good faith criticism, though it is always possible that I just wrote my post very poorly. What I said was that the deaths caused by speech suppression are abstract while the deaths caused by speech acts can be very clear and obvious. Because the harms of speech suppression are hard to see, it is harder to argue against speech suppression. In this case the speech acts related to vaccine denialism can be clearly argued to have resulted in deaths, while it is harder to argue for the danger of deaths and other harms caused indirectly by speech suppression.

Though now that I think on it, there was suppression of anti-Iraq-war speech in the early 2000s. Maybe if those perspectives had been more widely heard, that war wouldn’t have happened.

In any case, what you do in your last paragraph is merely an example of the thing I’m talking about. Misunderstanding someone’s argument and calling that misunderstanding a strawman is itself a strawman. 5.7 million deaths on one side of the ledger, okay. Well, the establishment was wrong about masking early in the pandemic, so how many more lives would have been lost if pro-masking voices had been suppressed then?
There are academic subfields that study the risk of de-identification.
Yeah but is the cable in the box long enough? What if the only plug in your living room on the other side?

There's a reason the PSP was not perceived as couch adjacent, and the Vita didn't have video out.
This works for fit people with the wherewithal to approximate average speeds on the choked roadways. Bike lanes are towards the low end of what constitutes bicycle infrastructure, but they do give a great number of people the confidence to get out on their bikes. This is good for all cyclists, as all evidence points to “more bicycles; better average safety.”

Look to parents with kids in tow as an indicator species for the health of a bicycling ecosystem.

That said, I am personally wary of bike lanes for the reason I suspect you are: I’m constantly needing to be hyper vigilant about cars turning right across the bike lane. When I’m clipping along in traffic, I’ll move left in the lane at intersections to prevent this. Bike lanes can make this maneuver harder, especially if they have a painted buffer that is littered with tire-shredding debris.

I suspect, but haven’t seen research, that the right hook scenario is lessened for slower moving bicycles (i.e. the kind that are perhaps more drawn to bike lanes). There is a longer span of time for an overtaking vehicle to observe a slower bicyclist in the bike lane, which I’d guess reduces the risk of the driver turning across. Add to that, a slower moving bicyclist isn’t going to run into the side panel of a car turning across the bike lane with as much force.
It's an attempt to optimize outcomes. If you look at most 'success' metrics, people with STEM degrees tend to do well; lifetime income for example tends to be higher for someone with a STEM degree vs an Arts degree or no degree.

Clearly, the way to get higher income for everyone is to get everyone a STEM degree. /s

This is a slightly more broad version of what I had growing up, where if you didn't know what you wanted to be as an adult, people would push you towards being a doctor, a lawyer, or an astronaut/fighter pilot. The intentions are good, but ignore any acknowledement of aptitude or desire/enjoyment. IMHO, it does makes sense to expose young people to lots of potential career options, and try to let them know what the income potential is (although, when they're 10+ years out, things can change a lot); let them figure out what they're good at and what's enjoyable, so they can try to find something that is good for them economically and psychologically.
What’s wrong with saying that? A solid foundation in arts and sciences can translate to many successful career paths.
Do you have any affiliation with the Radix project that you'd like to disclose?
I'm not sure how anyone sees similarities between these two scenarios:

Scenario 1) US disseminates bad intelligence and invades a sovereign country. Iraq War.

Scenario 2) US disseminates bad intelligence and arms / militarily supports a sovereign country which is being invaded. Ukraine.

Nobody is remotely considering a scenario where the US is saying "Russia might invade Ukraine, so we're going to invade Russia."

A defensive war is by definition the fault of the aggressor. Because they are literally on land that is yours.
That building sounds like a real-life version of the subterranean shelter in Wool, only...more Christian.
Thx - I do use Ethernet for primary laptop and desktop. But family uses WiFi and I'd like to do cloud gaming on phone and tablet. Maybe even upcoming steam deck etc :-)
I don't disagree with you,

Uh, plainly you do. The commenter's main point was that what the broadcaster did was not censorship (and whoever calls it that "need a reality check"). You're saying it "still is in my book". What much more different can the two of you be on this issue?

Part of the reason for the disconnect here probably lies in the fact that the definition given in the WP is overly broad and vague. The way the term is usually used, it strongly suggests some outside party, typically an authoritative body like a government, intervening to say "you cannot publish this". Basically, there needs to be some element of outside coercion for the term "censorship", or even "self-censorship" to apply.

And no -- the weight of public opinion does not constitute "coercion" in this context.

That's why when a company wakes up and realizes "gee, it turns out publishing endless amounts inflammatory crap that does not contribute to discourse and with essentially no artistic value is actually not so good for our overall image and business model" -- that's not what the term "censorship" was is really meant for.
How will this comment help OP, If you have not faced issue does not means OP is not facing same issue.
Well, Radix says it is fixed now. That's the gist of their response to this report, "we fixed a lot of things and no one's tested the new code but trust us!"
This, if it works for you and your coworkers thats all that matters.
Even if it was an immoral deal (I'm not convinced), we're not talking about someone who was coerced into a deal due to predatory practices or an exploitative power imbalance.

Rogan wanted to give control over his catalog in exchange for heaping gobs of money. He didn't have to do this if he didn't want to (he was already independently wealthy), but he did want to, so he did it, and was not harmed in any way.
Surely with the right data, we can quantify the exact effect of a dark pattern. Once quantified. We can we bring a class action suit against this kind of practice!? Once established as a precedent, the existence of this kind of lawsuit would universally improve web experience
Ironically the Cuban missile crisis was retaliation caused by the buildup of arms surrounding Russia… the same thing they’re complaining about now.

They roll tanks, USA flies drones. How’s that war with Yemen you’re not in going?

They kill spies, people get suicided in prison. Epstein not killing himself isn’t such a funny meme now.

Anyone paying attention knows that you only get one side of the argument when you live inside that countries sphere of influence.

USA is literally the only one that wants war here. Russia doesn’t, Ukraine doesn’t, Europe doesn’t, Germany doesn’t.

So ask yourself, why would America want to make a country look like an unstable and aggressive force when countries have started to trust them enough to replace their nuclear power generation with cheap Russian gas instead of American imported LNG???

No freaken idea.
I find it hard to believe this is a net gain to Spotify in the long run. It may well have been legal, but Rogan signed on as exclusive to Spotify with the understanding that they would be a platform for him and allow him to further extend his brand and reach his followers. Spotify is still in the early stages of their plan to curate and improve advertising in the podcast space, and their plan is to sign exclusives, forcing listeners onto their platform where the free tier can now have targeted ads as opposed to traditional podcasting with traditional media style ads.

Now anyone who receives an offer like this from Spotify will have to consider the possibility of having their brand censored. This will either drive up the cost to Spotify or simply make content providers refuse all together. So, unless Spotify has decided to quit this business plan, I don’t think this is a good long-term solution.

I do think what happened is Spotify saw its DAUs and subscribers dipping, and after the bloodbath in $FB stock last week, got freaked out and abandoned a long-term business plan to prevent a dip in users this quarter.
The question is not whether facts exist, but whether you actually have all of the facts and thus are accurately applying those labels. In my experience, people rarely do apply them accurately, hence, this reduces to you just disagreeing with these people's opinions.

Which is all besides the point. If you think they are grifters and conspiracy theorists, you are free to simply not listen to the podcast. The real question here is whether anyone else should be able to listen to it, or whether it should be censored due to actual harm. I asked if you have actual evidence of such harm, and this is the only question that needs an answer.
> First, it is already beginning of February, so those predictions were false - nothing happened so far.

Umm, this is exactly what I meant when I said it's impossible to discuss this in good faith. Any evidence can be immediately brushed off. "Ha, Ministry of Defence of Ukraine failed to predict the exact date when something would happen, therefore everything they said is false!" Completely disregarding everything that has been happening near Ukrainian border.

Sorry, I'm not going to continue this discussion with you.
Well, maybe the big difference here is that you have this example where you feel the participants were tricked. I'm inclined to believe you from what little I know of music history.
There is zero reason to believe Joe Rogan was in any way tricked or coerced. The situations are materially different.
The stupid pandemic has made that impossible for us for quite some time, but our current workflow of having artists discuss stuff on krita-artists.org with developers listening, then making a plan and then working on works quite well for us.

But I miss the sessions where each artist present would have two hours to demo making something with the express message: tell us what you hate, and we're not allowed to tell you "oh, but you could do this using that."
Pretty sure GE had a similar bottom slicing program and look at how that company has performed. They were once a big conglomerate and they are now a shadow of their former self.

Companies are just collections of people who are delivering goods and services to customers and returning money to shareholders. The PIP story isn't even surprising based on reporting from Big Technology and even the New York Times story from a few years ago.

I suspect Amazon is going to be in decline the next 20+ years and the start of that decline will be the company breaking up and selling off it's "non-core" businesses.
You do realize wikipedia is compromised as well right? The only truth is in the edit wars.
How is "the internet is a human right" related to "the us has disinformation campaign". If blackout removed your internet access for a week, is that a violation of your human rights?
That's pretty pathetic if you ask me. Did they not express viewpoints on Joe Rogan they wanted the world to hear? Pulling down their own episodes also makes it appear that they were spreading misinformation.
I think it's partly because you're looking at this through HN posting and you are aware of the dark pattern issue. Even if it poses no problem for 95% if people, if it does for 5%, it's a big number.

the problem is, they're deviating from the norm by doing things:

> Offering annual pricing, but with monthly pay option.
> Imposing rather stiff penalty.

Stuff like this... is not that common in ordinary e-commerce. You either pay 1 full year price and enjoy substantial savings or go monthly.

They could've made this info much more clear so that the comprehension wouldn't be a problem for 99% of the people. But they didn't.
Well, big platforms and advertisement companies have you pinned to show you that information.

Use a fresh browser like Brave and start "do not track" on any app/browser as much as you can and you'll see a different perspective of the internet.

If you were someone interested in farming and looked at plenty of farming stuff online, you'd be bound to be pushed into learning how to farm and make passes at hay bales.

It's not propaganda, it's supply & demand for a market that is novel and really hot right now with a low barrier to entry compared to a decade previous. There's much more dollars being spent on advertisements to get you in the process of learning (i.e. bootcamps, courses, certificates, etc) in tech than there is in something like farming where it's way low tech.
> The whole idea that one case of transmission proves the vaccines are ineffective at preventing transmission is silly.

There are many cases. Mine is just the one where I know by 100% that the vaccine was ineffective at preventing transmission. However, the CDC itself says that SARS-CoV-2 vaccines cannot prevent transmission anymore:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-director-covid-...

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said that Covid-19 vaccines are no longer effective at preventing transmission of the virus.

"...what they can’t do anymore is prevent transmission. So if you're going home to somebody who has not been vaccinated, somebody who can't get vaccinated...
I would suggest you wear a mask in a public indoor setting,"

Misinformation?

> Seems to be greater than 50% to me. Drops after that, but once again, it was always known that the effectiveness of the vaccine would be temporary.

Guess which efficacy is smaller than the efficacy against symptomatic disease? I am not sure if it was always known that the efficacy was temporary. In the initial phase some scientists speculated about decades. Actually we can only now know how temporary they are after testing them on millions of people.

> By saying who they allow to fly or not. You don't have to get vaccinated. United does not have to fly you.

Sure anyone is free to avoid business, but if you want to put people on nationwide blocklists, then that may be illegal.

>> I am sure we will see such questions being clarified in courts soon.

> Will probably be very short court cases...

Sure, if the pro-mandaters still don't have any good arguments and have to resort to ad hominems instead, I am sure it will be quick.
Someone putting a literal gun to my head is much different from someone saying that someone else is putting a metaphorical gun to my head.
> This all seems a bit overwrought. Like the root post, I cannot fathom who would go through a purchase process that included the phrase "Annual plan, billed monthly" and not clue in.

FWIW (mine is the root post and) I am definitely coming around to the idea that it should at least say "Yearly", and maybe say "in monthly installments", because that language may be more familiar to buyers. But the rest of your point about the other plan you can choose is right.

I don't yet believe Adobe is evil, either. Banal, corporate, plodding, slow-witted, yeah. It is definitely an 800 pound gorilla.
I’m not sure what you’d call that. But standing up to an angry mob is called “spine”— something Spotify seems to lack. The only JR podcast I listened to was the Bernie Sanders one; I have no dog in this fight. But I do dislike it when a bunch of angry folks silence someone. I saw it all the time as a kid when Newt and the evangelical right were in power. Today, the same abhorrent behavior is coming from the other side of the aisle. It’s all the same to me; moralizing do-gooders who can’t just leave other folks alone.
RBLs are useful, but there are a few that are not what they appear to be. The particular one in question, UCEPROTECT is

a) not worth paying

b) should never be used by a production mailserver to block messages.

From the beginning there have been enterprising RBLs that are clearly overbroad, and offer to accept money. The money is not for getting off the list, it is always for something else so as to appear legitimate and a side effect is getting your domain off the list. This model is unethical at best, and is right up there with companies that snail mail over-priced domain renewal notices.
Possibly. I don’t use iCloud storage at the moment because it doesn’t work very well. But I do like Time Machine so a cloud option on it would be interesting.

I think it would need some work though, just mapping a disk image in the cloud wouldn’t be enough. Using TM across a network seems to create problems for many.
Makes me think of the Mayflower Compact.
How is your aircraft sleeping?
I'm clueless as to what this is supposed to do.
Doctors literally have their own organizations which actively work to limit the supply of medical school graduates.

What would happen if they didn't have that legal protection? Look at Pharmacy; it used to be a great field until they started opening up Pharmacy schools everywhere and pumping out graduates nonstop.

The same thing is now happening with CS. We have no legal protection to limit our supply.

Luckily for us, most normal people don't find fulfillment in abstract problem solving but there's no reason why that can't change overtime.
There are different types of attachment anxiety, and they play a role in helping us connect to each other. How people connect with others on an emotional level is likely influenced by childhood. During childhood, you develop an attachment style that affects conflict responses, how needs are communicated, and what you expect from others. All of these elements influence your life and the decisions you make.
South Korea to track travel by chip engineers as tech leaks grow
His whole defense of the hosting company's hypothetical failure to help is bizarre. He considers a lot of things that aren't his concern or even really his business. A real analysis of whether to complain would only consider whether the hosting company will be responsive and whether they are competent to fix the problem.

Why is he considering—with incomplete information—the hosting company's legal options and the severity of the spamming?

Edited to add: He could also consider whether it is his hosting company with the problem or the orgs using UCEPROTECT; although as someone who needs their emails to go through "no matter what" that can be more difficult.
I recently worked on a project involving segmenting clinical CT scans. Almost every python package for working with CTs was written by the same guy.
Any shared hosting provider is extremely susceptible to this type of issue and this type of list just doesn't work. It's a scam. There are lots of good blocklists, but there are also lots of bad ones like this.

When I worked with a company who ran email systems like this we'd always steer customers away from lists like this, in cases where we couldn't deliver mail because of it we blamed the other provider. This actually worked a lot of the time and the customer would wind up contacting the sender another way to let them know they had a problem, and fairly often they'd change lists.

Our standard messaging was something like, "Google and Microsoft are receiving our emails just fine, something is wrong with the receiving service"
Which other major provider uses this list? Uceprotect is attempting to racket me from time to time. While I'm blocked i try different providers to guess the ones using this, I only found Hotmail blocking me.
I have real-world coworkers who were arguing about Ivermectin as a legitimate treatment to COVID19 and were clearly Joe Rogan fans.
I wish Apple would build a chromeOS equivalent with iCloud. Just works and with privacy.
Big no. I stopped using iCloud after the CSAM debacle showed Apple is eager and willing to weaponize my device against me for the sole purpose of reporting the content of my private files to the federal government. Then I stopped using and sold my iPhone and Apple Watch. I haven't been able to get away from MacOS yet, and there's really no competition for the iPad so I still use both of these.

While Time Machine has languished and deteriorated, Arq Backup [1] is alive and well. Used with AWS Glacier it's practically free, aside from the 1 time cost of the software (in case anyone forgot - there used to be a paradigm where you could buy software for money and own it) and whatever you choose to pay for expedited restore from Glacier.

[1] https://www.arqbackup.com
UK Health Security Agency (HSA) has a comprehensive page on test & trace data management, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-test-and-trac... (Dec 2021 update)

> Under data protection law, you have several rights over your personal information. You can exercise any of your rights by contacting us at InformationRights@UKHSA.gov.uk

> COVID-19 data may need to be shared with WHO for research purposes and where required to help trace contacts internationally. These are restricted transfers made on the basis of being important for reasons of public interest, where we rely on one of the derogations under Article 49(1)(d) of the GDPR.

> Personal information includes ... name, DOB, address, employer, locations visited, travel itinerary, mental health, lifestyle, social circumstances, ethnic origin, DNA/biometric data ... We send personal information to ... Amazon, AWS, Deloitte, MoD, NCSC, ONS, Police, Palantir, Serco, WHO [and others]
You're really trying to refute a full direct quote with an out of context sound clip?