skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah, NK isn’t that bad. USSR didn’t do too badly…

USSR in 90ies was equivalent technologically to the West in 60ies-70ies. I was born in USSR. And when I got to travel Europe in the 90ies - the difference was astounding.

And one other thing… That was me comparing capital cities of USSRs western republics. If you take your average outskirt towns on the periphery away from Moscow influence and power - the difference was more like 30-40 years of development.
EU4: europa universalis 4

WC: win condition
The Duetto is the Spider's pretty little sister. It is unreasonably beautiful for something that you used to be able to buy for not a lot of money.
++ The Kaka https://thekaka.substack.com/

Also The Pragmatic Engineer: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/
>Calling for a NATO no-fly zone is calling for defensive force, not initiated force, and thus is not a "call to violence."

You do understand what a NFZ in Ukraine is, right? It's not "hey fellas can ya stop flyin here, thanks". It's "we are now firing on all Russian aircraft within the zone, weapons away". Cut to WWIII, and so on.

>I hope you can see how unjust and absurd it would be to call the defense of innocents a "call to violence."

Of course a defensive call to action is a call to violence. This absurdist doublespeak is tuned to redefining words to fit how one views a conflict, and who is the aggressor and who is the agressed.
> by injecting inductive bias like positional encoding

I don't think it's fair to just call positional encoding "inductive bias". The positional encoding is the only way the word order is communicated to the model. That would be like saying it is inductive bias to include color channels when working with images.
You're only saying that censorship isn't a problem for content that you personally judge to be unimportant. Many don't see it that way - they see policies like this as evidence of Substack appeasing Christian moralist values that have "cancelled" the expression of sexuality and sexual identity outside of a set of norms acceptable to them. Worse, these "blanket" policies often only end up enforced against LGBTQ people in practice. I don't know if that's the case with Substack, but they are absolutely censoring content for political reasons when they ban the arbitrarily defined category of "pornography".

Likewise, one could trivially dismiss your position by saying that there are plenty of ways to get anti-vaccine messages (or whatever other "forbidden" political knowledge) - they are published all over the web! In the op ed section of every major newspaper, for example. Far more widely with regard to readership than sexual content is published.
> No, there is absolutely not.

Yes, there absolutely is: the side preemptively invading a sovereign nation, annihilating cities, and murdering civilians. A transgression that's an order of magnitude more deplorable than any justification you can cook up.

Regardless of the causes, and unlike in previous wars, you can see the atrocities with your own eyes if you care to look. Thousands of people dying, cease-fire agreements being violated, evacuation corridors being shelled, millions of lives shattered.

> And if you want to see actual shelling and starvation of citizens, search for atrocities in Yemen, Gaza, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc., all directly committed or supported by the west.

Great, let's sanction the bastards responsible there, too. Evil is evil.

> even allowing protests in Ukrainian cities they're controlling

What a joke. Given how protesters have been treated in Russia and Belarus, do you really think they would tolerate this if the Russian army wasn't vastly outnumbered and overstretched? Dissent will be quashed brutally if the invasion succeeds.
https://notary.icsi.berkeley.edu/
How far are we from the moment where everybody admits that those things were a bad idea?
I only read the first part because of the timely insight from the author in regards to a 25 year old online community shutting down. I missed the news about Chowhound this week, and always avoided that site anyway. Now finding the founders 2022 postings interesting.
Low-temp aluminum brazing rod has cadmium.
In this context, it means "this workaround happens without the user having to perform any additional steps"; not necessarily that they're unaware, but that it happens without their involvement and it doesn't seem that it's any different from the surface-level.
They use the same system
Sure thing. Also if you're getting into transformers I'd recommend lucidrains's GitHub[0] since it has a large collection of them with links to papers. It's nice that things are consolidated.

[0] https://github.com/lucidrains/vit-pytorch
It’s sad. Every new car today looks like the same identical “bar of soap with wheels.” They are differentiated visually by small things like grille shape and lighting clusters. Everyone blames it on fuel economy and safety features but I think that simply no manufacturer is willing to be daring anymore, and they have trained their customers to like boring design. Even colors: you rarely see anything but white, black, gray, red, and blue.
My thoughts on these things:

> Temperature control

These days automatic climate control is usually pretty good. I've been using ACC since my 2000 Honda Accord EX. The only climate control feature I routinely mess with on my cars is to turn on the defroster, which at least for the cars I drive still have physical buttons. Other than that the climate control stays on automatic fan, automatic temp, and I rarely even adjust the temperature. On one of my cars even my heated seats and heated steering wheel come on automatically. Having manual climate controls leads to more distractions for me, as then I'm having to actually change controls.

> vent direction

I definitely agree this is pretty ridiculous. I don't quite get why its better, are cars with this feature automatically repositioning vents at times? I truly don't understand the value and agree with you on this. I shouldn't need a menu to open/close or reposition a vent.

> volume, fwd, back on music

Most cars have these on the steering wheel. The steering wheel controls really should be the driver's primary way of manipulating the stereo instead of taking a hand off the wheel. IMO putting the stereo controls on the touch screen ends up making me less distracted, as it essentially forces me to use the wheel and voice controls instead of messing around with controls away from actually driving the car.

Meanwhile, having the actual app available on the large screen means my passenger can dig through playlists easier, switch between apps easier, etc. It also means as we move towards having a large screen that its easier to glance and get a good idea of the map as opposed to having a smaller map in a navigation system.
They were referencing worldle not wordle. Note the extra L for world instead of word.
I'm obviously not who you're replying to, but I exclusively read substack articles through RSS readers like inoreader - typically every article (both paid and unpaid) will show up in the feed; the paid articles are just paywalled after the title/image/short paragraph preview. Hope that helps.
2: We do have a strong philosophical stance on this. We think taking a strong stance in favor of freedom of the press is both the right thing to do, and critical to the success of our broader mission. We've written about this a few times, e.g. https://on.substack.com/p/substacks-view-of-content-moderati... and https://on.substack.com/p/society-has-a-trust-problem-more

That is incidentally a big part of the answer for (3). We are very public about how we think about this, and the first of those posts was written before there was any real pressure on this stuff. We talk about this with folks we are hiring, and it helps people choose for themselves if the approach we take is something they are excited to get behind.

4. YES!
Thanks for the kind words!

The nice thing about "network-first" products like Medium and Twitter is that there's a large audience baked in (as you mention) that you can tap into is a small time writer. But the trade-off is that you don't own your audience - you can build up followers, but you don't have a direct connection to them outside of that product. You typically don't get their email addresses, and you can't take your audience with you if you choose to leave.

You also don't necessarily own your work! I was a huge fan of Medium when it launched, and an early active writer. One day, my best performing post got added to someone else's collection, and now it "lives" in some random space that I have nothing to do with (https://medium.com/p/3eadcdc56ff2). This was a pretty frustrating experience.

We think there's a way to have your cake and eat it too: own your own audience, and be in full control. But also get access to a network of readers that grows over time. We're trying to take a deliberate and thoughtful approach to growing the destination for readers, and the app is a major step.
Hello, I (Hamish) will answer question #1 and leave the rest to my colleagues.

I think what has driven our growth is a nice synthesis between the product, the business dev work (i.e. convincing writers to give it a shot), and the business model.

The model may be the underestimated part. It's compelling for many writers, partly because of its simplicity and transparency: you own the relationship with your audience, you publish stuff that gets sent to them, and then if you're doing good work some portion of that audience will choose to pay you to keep going. That's a good deal for writers, since:

a) It lets them do the work they believe is most important
b) No one can mess with their audience
c) There's a clear path to making money, which is the major thing absent from most other options for writing on the internet (or, increasingly, anywhere else).

These things make Substack a relatively easy "sell".

Of course, some writers are better poised to succeed with this model than others, so we have put in a sustained effort to identify those writers and let them know about their opportunity on Substack. In a small number of cases, that has meant we've offered a financial package to derisk the move for them (you can think of it as like startup funding to get them going; many don't have much financial buffer and may be reluctant to leave jobs even if they are unhappy in those jobs). But the vast majority of writers doing well on Substack have come to the platform of their own accord, without any kind of deal.
True. The entire world really needs to fix their dependence on China for hardware.
I think you're forgetting how small Russia is. They're on par GDP-wise with Australia or Brazil (equivalent to Ohio and Pennsylvania together). Sure, not negligible, but at the same time not enough to revolutionize the world finance order.
Sure!

> It is time we take to the streets wearing hats adorned with cocks-and-balls to demand equity in clothing prices!
My personal experience with consuming content on Substack is that it’s been mostly fringe opinion content with a biased agenda.

For someone like me that feels wary every time I see a Substack URL, are there some quality independent journalists covering current events that don’t participate in conspiracy theories and partisan echo chambers that I can discover?
Fine, reporters and editors. Complain about the articles, headlines, and/or specific people. Don't condemn the entire industry, especially when it still has good people doing good work.
What does Substack look like to you in 2027?
Yes, there are toll booths. You pay with the time you spend waiting in line though.
Given your comments about deplatforming, how do you feel about OP's point about how Substack doesn't take too kindly to sex workers and similar content on it's platform? You seem to have missed that point and took, IMO probably too much, umbrage around the phrase "racists and abusers".
Yeah, but those other assets don't let you live in them. You have to subtract out the cost of your rent for those other assets if you want to compare it to a house.
It's more robust not to remove the extra headers IMO. Otherwise you give an unnecessary signal to the backend that the traffic's not coming from the expected sources.

It also makes the process of writing your code more mechanical, which is useful since you'll likely have to redo the process when the API changes.
+++ to Bernard/The Kaka, and go Kiwis.
> in Seattle there are similar mixed toll and high occupancy vehicle lanes that were built to help fund expansion of light rail systems

Tolls from the express toll lanes or on state routes like 520 and 167 don't pay for the transit system in Puget Sound. The long and short of why is that because funding indirectly comes from the motor vehicle fuel tax account, at least as backing for the bonds, the state constitution prohibits spending the money on anything but roads.

The closest you can get is that part of the ETL projects on I-405/SR 522 will build a full ETL pathway that bus rapid transit can use as part of Sound Transit's STRIDE network from Renton to Bothell, but that's only for transit insofar as public transit vehicle operators don't have to pay tolls.

(Washington State contributed, until the pandemic and assuming Move Washington passes, $0.00 to Puget Sound transit agencies. The state legislature insists that transit is a local issue. The state kicked in some money to local agencies to help during the pandemic but the bulk of that money was supplied by the federal government as part of stimulus bills. If Move Washington passes, it will be the first time the state funds any transit operations west of the Cascades in over a decade.)
That seems like a neat demo. Out of curiosity, what software/hardware did you use to see and ping nearby BLE devices?
> It makes a huge diffidence in Seattle knowing the bus takes an hour and driving by myself would take an hour and a half.

Where in Seattle is that true? I used to take the bus all the time before I got a car, but now it's hard to justify since the bus is usually 1.5-2x longer than by car...

For example from my apartment to Pike Place Market, Google Maps currently estimates 20 minutes by car and 37 minutes (if you don't miss any transfers!) by bus.
There's no reason to believe these are a bad idea beyond lowering entry cost to GPS trackers.

It seems like there's a bug going on here - otherwise everyone would have the same issue. This is something that can be fixed and isn't really related to these existing overall.
They didn't use to, though. And you can't get that old functionality back while disabling the new.
No this will just turn off the ability to find your phone by using other people's phone. You will still have the phone report its location and be able to locate it in "Find My" but lose features such as being able to find the phone if its out of battery/turned off/not in cell reception range.

Image of the current settings and explanation: https://imgur.com/a/TepOqb2
> War makes unlikely alliances.

That is certainly true. There are many examples of that. Israel provided weapons and advisers to Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. They even bombed an Iraqi nuclear reactor for them. [1] A more widely known example is the alliance between US and the Soviets during the WW2.

> What you've just discovered is that a unified policy across the entire world isn't actually the right policy.

I disagree with that. The ideal "public square" platforms should be neutral. The best policy (which I think will work in almost all cases for general platforms like FB) is to stick to supporting free expression as much as the law permits, don't manipulate people's feeds, and develop tools to let people filter out the content they don't want to see.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%27s_role_in_the_Iran–...
My personal opinion (backed up with a certain amount of experience) is that much of these suicides are due to a soldier being traumatized, then coming home to try to cope with trauma responses. Some then turn to drowning the trauma with alcohol and other bad stuff. That's when the spiral really accelerates.

Unfortunately the stigma you mentioned feels so much worse when someone also hates themselves. They don't recognize the stigma for what it is and start believing they don't deserve to get better.

And yes this seems to be a huge problem across humanity. Overdoses and suicides are at historically high levels. And celebrities with tremendous resources still suffer the same way. Which tells me the technology just isn't there.
One question I've never heard an answer to, when someone suggests it's alright to hang in the left and middle lane as long as you're doing the speed limit, is ... how do you decide which law you're going to disregard? Because "slower traffic keep right' does not have a 'unless you are going the speed limit' exception.
The search field at the bottom of Hacker News is one point of reference:

<input type="text" name="foo" autocorrect="off" spellcheck="false" autocapitalize="off" autocomplete="false">

Tradle currently uses creative but non-standard attribute values:

<input type="string" autocomplete="nope">
PowerShell Crescendo General Availability (GA)
It's not ridiculous at all - you don't get to reap the benefits of the network without participating.
Is this position remote friendly outside USA/UK? I'm from Argentina, and I'd like to apply to Dev Infra Engineer position
Yeah, I would not tango with an ostrich. About fifteen years ago I had just moved to the country and had taken a quick trip by myself to the local store. Shortly after leaving my house I came upon a turkey in the road. I stopped, got out of the car and started walking up to it. It just sat there waiting. It had perched on the guard rail and as I got closer to it I noticed it's huge razor sharp talons. I said to myself "dude, your family is expecting you home safe in a few minutes...get back in the car".
> "Poor people" already drive less than higher income people, are more likely to depend on public transportation and suffer the consequences of living near polluted highways. They will disproportionately benefit from anti-congestion policies like tolling highway lanes.

Unsure if you're familiar with LA traffic patterns and driving habits, but that really isn't true. Except for living near polluted highways, that's true. If anything, the poorer you are, the more likely you are to commute further.
I was watching a video about women being victims and men being evil, and then out of nowhere they started talking about the amazing story of the Raspberry Pi, the highs, the lows, it's impact, and the future.
Also known as Fiat Ritmo
Nobody's mentioned what is IMO the main benefit of an intrusive data-structure: items within the data-structure can belong to multiple containers.

This allows you to locate an item using more than one criteria: for example, you could store blocks of free memory in two intrusive lists, one sorted by size and one by location. This would allow you to first locate eg. the largest memory block, and then quickly locate blocks adjacent to that one in memory.

With non-intrusive data-structures this is not possible, because while you can go from an iterator -> the item pointed to by the iterator, there is no way to efficiently do the reverse. This is possible in an intrusive data-structure because the iterator and the item itself are the same thing.
>should've been working on fixing that for the past 20 years

Post USSR broken RU didn't have as many carrots as West/NATO. Their leverage was coalescing their big sticks after period of disorder. West/NATO equally culpable indulging UKR and failing to manage her as buffer led to RU resorting to sticks, because they couldn't compete on carrots.

>Even China has not made that mistake

Look at 1st, 2nd, 3rd TW strait crisis, PRC wasn't even capable of succeeding but they still tried. 92 consensus provided ~30 years of detente but that's gone, and PRC is building up to try again. Improving geo strategic conditions for long term security is rarely a mistake, especially considering RU headwinds. The mistake for RU is waiting this long in the first place.

>appeal to Ukraine than China to Taiwan

See how HK opinion on PRC shifted in a generation, and how TW's as well. That's what happens when new gen grows up in antagonistic political systems (again influenced/funded by west) - value fracture, identities diverge. Past certain point, appealing with carrots stop working. Again 1.5T RU economy can't out compete on 40T western block. Was even more lopsided 20 years ago. It's not they didn't try, they just didn't stand a chance.

>might be planning to displace 20M+ people, somehow I doubt that would improve things.

Destabilized europe with 20M refugees while RU has defendable UKR geography and resources is a massive long term "improvement". More than half of world's population are neutral/still need RU exports. I don't think warcriming to victory is the plan considering how kid gloves RU ROE has been so far, but it's likely the inevitable outcome if RU demands aren't met. RU peer-level military strategy is artillery slowly glassing everything. They don't have capability to prosecute a high tech war with relatively less disruption.
Did you miss the previous paragraph?

>Meta Platforms (FB.O) will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion

People here are upset by "russians", which could conceivably mean russian civilians.
That doesn't really assert anything. Many aspects will change dramatically, and often they are aspects that nobody previously imagined possible. The people who believe in change and possibility are the ones who do good things. The question is, what can we change and how much?

When people don't want change, they pull out that parent argument and apply it, through some general claim, and not actually address the issue at hand.
I think vigilantes are fine in this particular case.
I seem to recall some pretty poor performance regressions in Docker containers versus equivalent Debian-based container configs.
I bought an '88 900 Turbo when I was 19 years old. That car and I had a LOT of fun together. The closest thing I've found to that (feeling) is my '19 Golf R.
Almost all art sold is only sold once. The figure I've seen is 0.5% of paintings bought are ever resold. Most artists would be overjoyed at someone flipping their work for 100x, because their future sales now look better. It is similar to gallery commissions, where 40% of hardly anything is a bargain and 40% of a lot is worth every penny.
> A popular sentiment on HN is "don't make an app when you can just have a web page".

I have yet to hear a user data analytics team say that.