skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would it be fine? If you just cave, you tell Putin that he can take whatever he wants, so long as he threatens to nuke you if you don't let him.

And all this talk about NATO being the "red line" is not particularly believable in context, either - I sincerely doubt that, if Russia threatens e.g. Latvia, US would be willing to risk escalation then if it doesn't do so now.
Back during the first Iraq war (Kuwait) my sociology class did an analysis of all the news to see how they reported it differently. We look at the 6:00 news on ABC, NBC, and CBS and I asked if we could also add CNN because this was when cable was still being adopted. What we learned was back then CNN largely reported the facts/observations with qualified statements and not much commentary at all, and all the other news outlets got the bulk of their facts (except for local news) from the CNN newswires/people on the ground and then fluffed them with their own subjective language. That was when CNN was just Headline News. They've really lost credibility since then. I'm not even sure if Headline News even exists anymore. It used to just be every 30 minutes the news cycled over and over and updated as new info came up.
John from the app team here, thanks for the question! I'd say most of the unexpected challenges came from building an app on top of a system that was primarily designed for emails and web. There's lots of tools in the publish email pipeline (queues, delays, retries, etc) that we don't really need to worry about with an app where we're directly querying for the posts for a user. Conversely there are functions like push notifications that apply to the app but not email. This led to plenty of refactors and some parallel backend code, although for the most part we were able to take advantage of the rest of the company's work.

Separately there's been some interesting challenges on the client side around caching posts, serving post content offline, and purging spam/copyright infringing content.
Transformers: More than meets the eye
As a counterpoint, I take the phrase as a funny way of saying "you lucky person". I definitely see how it can come off as condescending, I just find the reference obscure enough that it's more funny than offensive to me.
considering USSR got the brunt of WW2, it's not that bad. peak of USSR was in the 60s anyway, so you should compare at that time. in the 90s, USSR didn't exist anymore
I think busybox is lighter, maybe not faster, but make alpine probably the cleanest modern distro, make it efficient and fast in the process.
This guy went to extreme lengths and was pulled over.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-26/driver-u...
What was the last war that had such an overwhelming and unanimous international response?
Are they? Or are they telling you what you can/can’t share on their platform?
Stopped reading at “censorship responsibility”.
No, it’s happening exactly because it invaded and is killing people in Ukraine. Why invent an alternative and much more complicated reason?

Russia was a mess, weak and poor for 20 of the last 30 years. All the West did during this time was invest and assist trying to integrate a former adversary into the world economy.
Hitler was also a voracious reader with a private library of some 2000 books. Surprisingly, Schopenhauer appears to have been Hitler's favorite reading rather than those books of Nietzsche which proclaim the right of the amoral Superman to impose his will on all, or the repulsive racist theories of Alfred Rosenberg and Houston Stuart Chamberlain which surface in Mein Kamph.

Maybe it was Schopenhauer's notion of the noumenal will being the prime mover that gave Hitler the notion that anything could be achieved if only it was willed strongly enough, hence the title of the infamous Nazi propaganda movie, Triumph Of The Will. Hitler was found to have developed a system of annotating passages with a system of colored pencils. Presumably there was a lot of angry red.
Your original comment said:

>Censorship happens when a writer is de-platformed, and has nowhere to turn to re-platform themselves. People on HN then give snarky, insincere advice about creating your own web hosting company or whatever.

Substack would be a place for profiling what's happening in the sex worker community, providing news and insight and addressing issues important to individuals within the community. r/GoneWild and OnlyFans don't cater to that; they only want you to post your nude content.

So in your follow up example, there is no other platform that would offer the same kind of service and target audience for sex workers that Substack does.
> Russia will be a lesser partner to China.

This is such an American/Anglo point of view, who can only think in terms of empire, master/slave, etc.

As an American, it's clear we're making increasingly poor and erratic decisions because we simply refuse to understand that there isn't one universal culture (Western) that everyone should have, and if they don't, they're evil.

We've done a lot of feel-good things in response to Russia's military operation in Ukraine, but I don't think it works out well in the end. America is significantly weaker because of the actions we've already taken, and I'm confident we'll double down a few dozen more times before things stabilize again.

BRICS countries can sense the opportunity Russia's isolation by the West has given them.
It's harder to name wars that weren't - and empires used nationalism to whip up war propaganda just as much as everybody else.

I find it particularly weird that you list WW2 as not brought by nationalism, given that Nazism is basically an extreme form of ethnic nationalism.
The competitive fighting game scene's term for this is "Hiding your power level".
Whataboutism. Focus on the current issue of Facebook enabling hate
Would be much easier to script that all out and have a single Bluetooth device.

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack#how-to-track-othe...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6893534/

This review debunks the "bioavailability" and "quality" claims quite easily.

"bioavailability" (pdcaas diaas) is a contrived measure of protein source completeness made up to characterize protein issues of starving humans. It was also calibrated on rats and pigs, not humans. The "complete protein" misinformation is everywhere. Even on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_protein (edit: now I see that someone recently changed the statement to "adequate proportion" while previously it was just referencing that it contains all 9 essential amino acids).

All plants contain all essential amino acids, including green grass. Completeness in case of no starvation does not mean a thing. If you are eating 3000kcal of wheat every day, protein is no longer a worry, despite wheat having a 25% made-up bioavailability measure that was deduced by checking what happens to nitrogen in a live pig.

The protein "concentration" is just not true. Chicken breast does not have 90g of protein in 100g of chicken breast. 35g of protein in 100g of raw soybean. You will have to find a really rare steak of 100g to top that.

> Many ex-vegans have been consistently anemic, even while taking iron supplements, until they re-introduced meat.

This is not at all the conclusion of peer reviewed articles. Increased occurrence of nutrient deficiencies in vegan populations does not exist. Some people get deficiencies on any diet, and this is also the case for diets that have low-calorie high-volume foods like plants. Nothing special about that. People need to eat more volume but rarely do so. Similarly, they need to eat more calories. Talking about micronutrients in a world with no starvation is unnecessary. If you're eating a variety of plants, enough calories, it is certain you are consuming all of the necessary nutrients and protein. If you want to do powerlifting, marathon running, you will need to adjust your diet, whatever diet it is.
"Somehow the war hasn't ended yet, despite of the zillions of Russian tanks that have been destroyed by now."

Well if we're going to be pedantic and childish, then for your information, Russia started the war with 12.3 zillion tanks and the war is still going on because the Russians still have more tanks. The fact that zillions of tanks have been destroyed and that Russia still has plenty more tanks is not somehow a proof that the information about destroyed Russian tanks is false...
Maybe.

I think the advances you mentioned are indeed advances.

Smartphones I am not so convinced about. They suppress computer literacy and are essentially Sackler-brand walkie-talkies.
Assuming you drive any significant distance once you have it you'll never want to go back.
> The range of opinion that Big Tech deems permissible seems to be getting narrower and narrower

I'm not affiliated with Substack, but I'm having difficulty with your premise here. There's literally a Trump app on the App Store right now dedicated to spreading falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election. What opinions is "Big Tech" "censoring" and why should one think there's any validity to your slippery slope argument?
The Dark Tower series, though it isn't a single book

I want to say Ulysses but I don't remember exactly if it does
I read a lot of novels, but I can't recall any really great opening lines in particular. Rap though...

"I sit alone in my four-cornered room staring at candles"

"I'm waking up in the morning with problems on mind, motherfuck an education, and drug rehabilitation"

"Damned if I do, damned if I don't, holla fuck the world with a chest full of smoke"
What about the long-term impact on the lungs, etc?

> Was reported on Channel 5 News today.

That does not fill me with confidence.
I don't see why we have these pay lanes at all. If you choose to drive rather than finding an alternative (our admittedly not-great transit system, moving so you live closer to work, etc.[0]), why should you be allowed to pay for the ability to externalize that choice? It just ends up being a regressive tax, and the people who can't afford it end up paying with their time.

Just designate one or two lanes as un-tolled HOV3 to encourage carpooling and leave it at that. Direct the funds for road-widening and toll schemes toward improving public transit.

Personal travel around the bay area (regardless of whether it's by car, bus, train, or boat) is abysmally embarrassing. Everything done since I moved here 18 years ago have been ineffectual band-aids.

[0] Yes, I know these options aren't available to everyone, at least not without significant personal or financial sacrifice, but I bet enough people to make a difference could actually make some useful changes.
>due to the great popularity of Docker, Alpine Linux is one of the most deployed operating systems currently in use

Wow, that's impressive! However, when I check on Distrowatch it's only in the 30s. Is there a better statistic? Something more representative of actual amounts of installs on anything at all?
FYI in the US free speech has some exemptions in addition to commercial speech:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_ex...

> Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment (and therefore may be restricted) include obscenity, fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats, and commercial speech such as advertising. Defamation that causes harm to reputation is a tort and also an exception to free speech.
I must spend time near hundreds of AirTags each day, yet my battery doesn't seem to be affected. Is it possible somebody is exaggerating? Or omitting relevant info?
"The non mention of NATO being a pointless organization today but especially in a collapsed Russia world would be good to know."

WHY ISNT MY RIDICULOUS OPINION BEING PRESENTED AS FACT BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA??????????????

You realize how insane your arguments are, right?
At about $3000 (tax included) per 100 you could probably do more interesting things with say $10,000. Like giving stacks of 100 $1 bills to everyone around you except the people you want to piss off.
You're saying as knowing what the "truth" is is an obvious thing, and anybody could do it, and anybody could recognize whether certain statement is "truth" or not. But it is far from being the case. Many very smart and very honest people routinely disagree on many subjects whether something is truth or not, and on top of that many people also make statements that may look like truth but turn out not to be after detailed and complicated investigation. You can not expect an owner of the search engine to be the arbiter in these disagreements and to perform those investigations. And even if they did, who would ensure they themselves are being objective and not just enacting their own biases and hiding facts that they think are inconvenient to them? How do you observe this fact? The truth may be not subjective, in a pure Platonic sense, but our knowledge about it and our trust in ways how to get to it certainly would be.
> Mearsheimer is an idiot and nobody takes him seriously in Eastern Europe

Maybe they should have listened to that idiot when he suggested in 1993 that Ukraine retains some of its nuclear weapons to deter Russia from attacking it in the future.
For some reason, the linked article claims the Netherlands has a Gini coefficient of 0.902 but the linked source claims a Gini coefficient of 0.281, significantly lower.

I can find no other sources claiming a Dutch Gini coefficient higher than 0.3 at any point in recent history. A Gini coefficient of 0.902 is practically unheard of, perhaps the article was written in error? Seems strange to put so much effort into writing an article without checking the source or questioning the number.

By comparison, Russia's Gini coefficient is 0.375 with the noted caveat that it can be very hard to track the true wealth of the most powerful Russians. The United States is 0.414 according to same source.
IBM investors staged 2021 revolt over exec pay
As GP, to clarify, that was my takeaway - that they intend to forego in-app telemetry completely. Apologies if I was mistaken in my assumption but that was my read. If true, it is a bold move and a strategy I would love to employ if I could convince others on my teem of the merits.
That philosophical stance is very common at the beginnings of a platform. E.g., Twitter being the "free-speech wing of the free-speech party". Or Christopher "moot" Poole, who created 4-chan. But over time, tensions develop between the theory and the practice.

So what sorts of things do you folks find personally odious but see it as important to support?

From your terms of service, obviously porn isn't in that category. What about, say, open antisemitism? Will you host and help fund the American Nazi Party or the KKK? How about more borderline actors, like people who promote racist conspiracy theories and ethnic cleansing, but stop short of direct calls for violence?
Maybe keep reading then (or configure your censorship software to truncate comments from TechBro8615).
Car companies don't want to sell cheap cars, they want to sell expensive cars. If they made a cheap car that people liked they wouldn't make as much money, so they purposefully make the cheap cars bad in some ways to convince people with extra money to buy more expensive cars while still allowing legitimately poor people to afford a car.
They did not state anything about seo spam. You are just assuming. They stated they are down ranking domains associated with Russian disinformation, meaning they are censoring Russia. If it was SEO spam then the fix for that would benefit all of search. I highly doubt they care about that, they are introducing censorship by domain on the basis the content served by the domain is not correct. Very tricky to actually verify and sleazy
Data transfer in Manhattan using RocksDB
You are describing market timing indeed.
Google Reader, which y'all claim to love, supported reading any blog, not just Google's owned Blogger.

You could have done the same thing and built a generalized newsletter app.

But instead you built a reader just for Substack, which is clearly built to lock in an open ecosystem, just as medium tried with blogging and Spotify is trying with podcasts.
I wonder if those books were just for show, or for merely confirming/justifying his pre-existing beliefs. Hitler apparently loved to hold after-dinner "discussions"(mostly soliloquies), and by all reports his viewpoints on the topics that he himself was obsessed with were extremely banal and unsophisticated.
I think it's beneficial to be specific about what you're advocating for and what the problem is. What you expressed is that they are actively censoring sex workers for just being sex workers. If they've taken a moral position on that, but not other things then you're right - they're guilty of selective morality and their statement is moot. If on the other hand, they're censoring images and videos but not stories or identities then that's a different ballgame. In that case, the problem doesn't lie with Substack it lies with other institutions that likely have a lot of influence over Substack and may take time and strategy to overcome. As a long time champion of privacy and anti-censorship, advocacy is not some zero-sum game rife with pots of reductions to strong arm people and institutions into what you want. It's about understanding the root of the problem, which likely was formulated in good faith at some time, and trying to course adjust it to fit our world today.
That first question, it is 100C at STP. Second question, enough to make you have a second or third degree burn. Third question, yes.
Ah, that makes sense as well. But the idea of thousands of sexes seemed suspect to me.
Ok, lets settle on it’s not “that” bad then.

My wife who grew up poor hispanic in Brooklyn is humored that we didn’t have a washing machine in the 90ies while living in the capital, drying clothes on the balcony (or bathroom in the winter).

She even had a Nintendo!
Gender Pay Gap Bot calls out brands tweeting about International Women's Day
Arathorn
better hide inside forever just to be sure
Same currently. Unless I'm just modifying a simple trusted image (which does happen often enough) I just start from Ubuntu during development and only attempt to move the image to Alpine if I'm really trying to improve resource usage down the line.
I've been down this path before and I can say for sure two things -

1 - Distrowatch stats are both gamed and useless

2 - There's no easy way to see which distro is most popular on the whole.
I saw a thread the other day on docker command pull alpine:latest is not good. Im pretty sure like every enterprise docker container is running this command. Anyone see anyone change this or bring this up at work?
The used car market is currently bonkers. $8k not gonna get you much of anything.
I mean, if I wanted to refer to the reals exclusively as a vectorspace I wouldn't be wrong, but if you aren't actually using what makes it a vectorspace why would you choose to call it that? Hell, call 7 a tensor. There's more than a map-territory distinction (I'd argue formal mathematics is perhaps the only realm where the two are one and the same, but I see what you're saying), it's a convention of language more generally. You typically use the most necessary term, rather than a random also accurate label. If you don't care about invariance under coordinate transformations (and most machine learning does not), why would you call it a tensor?
The profit comes from just holding stuff that generates value and not by buying something belownits intrinsic value
love love love substack. I'm fully hooked and spend over 1 hour a day reading on it. The app looks good, I've been waiting for something like this!

A few comments;

- The font looks quite small (on iPad). Have you considered adding the ability to change font and size?

- Now that all my subs are in here, I don't really need to bombard my inbox. Is there a way so that I can mute sending to my email inbox?

- I love to read when flying. Will my inbox be downloaded for offline reading?
Why is this better than self sustaining and carbon neutral homesteads?
Not so fast, join the long queue...
There's no distinction between HOV and carpool; they're just different names for the same thing. Whether or not the lanes are separated with designated entry/exit points or are open-access is a matter of local policy and design for that specific highway.
> That does not fill me with confidence.

You mean because Viacom?
Maybe I want to know if the employees are all vegan or something before I support that company. I guess I'll frame the same question in a different context: if all needs are subjective, how do you objectively determine which information is important for a transaction?
I’ve found nRFConnect to be far and away the easiest to get started with.
I can't resist a rhetorical flourish :) The situation between defenders of the API and users of the API is extremely weird. If you were an alien from another planet and witnessed what was going on you would be shocked. People are being paid to prevent people from accessing an API and people are being paid to defeat these countermeasures. This is similar to people being paid to dig holes and other people are being paid to fill in the holes. I think the aliens would conclude there is something wrong with the economic system. I don't know what the solution is but seeing as I'm a digger I really don't want rock the boat :)
You realize there was also a massive coordinated effort by the media to defeat Nazi Germany, right?

I know it's rare nowadays, but sometimes, gasp, large groups of people across organizations and industries can coordinate for a mutually beneficial and morally virtuous cause. At this point, I'm sure someone could start another massive genocide with HD livestreams of the gas chambers and some people would still be like "hmmm, this coordinated effort to stop Hitler 2.0 sure seems fishy".

I've lost all hope.
It’s obviously undesirable, but it makes sense to me that a busy company that doesn’t understand Stripe Connect would struggle to research and rectify this. That’s assuming you identified the technical issue correctly, of course.
Mathematical Definition of Folgezettel
I've never had a Facebook or Instagram account for this very reason.
Just Say No to Central Bank Digital Currencies
They should also roll their own crypto...
Just start doing it. There is always more work for people who can solve the problems that others can’t. No degree is required. Most of what is taught in school is eclipsed by a few years of hard problem solving and coding every day.
For foreign born citizens, theres's is challenge to enter the minimal data.
When was the last time a sovereign, democratic, western nation invaded?
As I understand it, Airtags are low-power Bluetooth devices with no GPS capability.

If your Bluetooth transceiver is disabled, your iOS device will not see nor report the locations of any Airtags that are otherwise in range.

If you do enable Bluetooth on an iOS device, any Airtags detected will be reported to Apple over any available data connection, and this cannot be disabled in iOS as far as I know.

Disabling Bluetooth will likely save any device's battery. This is separate from GPS and mobile data.