skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think in this case it's more than that... Russia (or at least Putin) is trying to impose a certain worldview that's very regressive: pro-oil, heavy censorship, against several human rights (including LGBT), autocratic regime. I think there's a lot of merit to resisting this regime, resisting being taken by force and turned into the opposite of what they want (which was to join more progressive European countries, from what I gather).

It's all connected... if you let oil-hungry autocrats rule the world, climate change is completely out of the window. Also human rights and ideals we should all stand for.

I do want peace as soon as possible. I believe a compromise might be necessary. I think Putin's worldview has been shown critically dated, so hopefully Russians can rise against this sort of government eventually. It's very difficult to rise up when your life is threatened by the regime though, but reason and truth tend to find their way through the cracks.

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I am specially moved because of the parallels to Nazi invasions. Doing nothing proved a grave mistake, not standing up for human rights, giving fascists the benefit of the doubt cost so many lives. I've said "never again" too. It's easy to fact-check the fascist lies in this case.

I suggest any new generations read Anne Frank's diary if you can.

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Also: don't believe narratives of doom. There's no doom incoming immediately, not from nuclear war (it's been shown it would doom civilization at least), not from climate change (we're in a pathway for significant damage, but it will be decades until it reaches its consequences, and it`s certainly no doom[1]). Doom narratives and hopelessness can create inaction, which is not what we want. Hope is the most powerful weapon for change.

[1] See Kurzgesagt on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgMdjyw8uw
Journalists and bluechecks seem to be particularly mad about this. I guess they don't like the prospect of having to follow rules that are transparently enforced rather than the current system of favoritism and opacity
I realized that "left-leaning" is an inaccurate characterization. To me being left means being liberal. To quote wikipedia, "Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. " And I subscribe to liberalism.

Twitter and WaPo's staff, sometimes, are nothing but liberal. A liberal wouldn't call anyone who questioned Fauci nazi or anti-science. A liberal wouldn't want to lock someone up or doxx someone just because they criticize Biden government. A liberal wouldn't celebrate the illness of Justice Thomas just because he is a conservative. A liberal wouldn't call someone who criticizes Sharia a xenophobic yet thinks it's totally okay for Khamenei to call for "eradicating" an entire nation and its people. A liberal wouldn't blatantly call Asian parents racists just because they support standard tests and entrance exams by popular schools. A liberal wouldn't call a government Nazi who didn't even try to consolidate power in the pandemic but celebrate another government for consolidating lots of power in the name of handling the pandemic.

Those people do not appear to be liberals. They are radicals.
It seems those are indeed the two options. This link gives details on how to perform either or the other.

https://fennel-lang.org/setup#embedding-fennel
Yeah, sure, and kill the platform's greatest feature by MILES, which is the comment to like to RT ratio.
Seattle has abandoned railways that could be re-used for light rail at minimal cost (they actually sit there with rusting tracks on them). Instead, every effort has been made to destroy those corridors, so that tens of billions of dollars can be blown by blasting new corridors for light rail.

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6122286,-122.1837204,121m/da...
Yes, republics utilize some democracy. Are republics == democracy? No. Otherwise one of the two words wouldn't exist.
The data was already publicly available. Didn’t he just publicize the url?
This was mostly due to vending and coin amounts. It doesn’t really constrain you in a digital payment reality. If this happened today they would move to 6c, then 7c, etc.
I think more just that there was precedent for that type/scale of acquisition.
From hn.algolia.com:

https://medium.com/@silenttiger/how-to-draw-smooth-mouse-tra...

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In Inkscape (Illustrator, Draw, ...):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/144dtjN3wGuwCBhBNZgp52vjBLfV...

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For tracing there are many tools as well, e.g. FlexiSIGN,
https://youtu.be/PFkSZOy_43c?t=617

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For a use case, see Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad Demo:
https://youtu.be/6orsmFndx_o?t=291
It's a common cliché from rightwing circles (initially I think the combination of the two was produced by Jordan Peterson). Not to be too mean, but you'll see a lot of the Ben Shapiro fan crowd snagging on to it because it sounds smart despite being mostly meaningless. It's a placeholder for terms like 'degeneracy' and 'cultural bolshevism' and other such social forces that might undermine the status quo.

There's a bit more nuance if you want to try to take the term at face value. DDG renders this, which seems reasonable https://areomagazine.com/2022/04/11/is-postmodernism-neo-mar...
It seems like this could easily be solved with "Some replies are hidden. [Settings](https://...)"
> it's going to be interesting to watch what tactics have to be used to get an unwilling generation in the metaphorical front lines.

Biden's admin is already ..trying.. the "how do you do, fellow kids" approach

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/11/tik-tok...
There is a lot of OSINT now, given that the war theatre is located in a developed country with network coverage and a dozen million smartphones. From this point of view, accuracy is probably better than in previous wars. We didn't have much OSINT from Hindu Kush.
Even just him announcing a new platform would scare twitter investors. If successful it'd drive twitter even further down.

Paul Graham thinks he would be able to compete:

"It is obvious. It's also obvious that Elon could draw an initial set of users that was more than big enough to have sufficient network effects on day 1."

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1507782349924274180

"I'd try it the first day. Wouldn't you? Sum that pattern across Twitter, and you've got quite a lot of users on day 1."

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1507855287130243085

"You don't need to get everyone to switch right away. All you need, to start with, is a critical mass of users — enough so that people don't feel they're talking to a void. You'd very likely have that from the start. Then it grows."

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1507855750680428545
I've got an external HDD with battery and its own small WiFi, it makes its contents available through DLNA. It works great, I usually connect through VLC or a gaming console.
I left that out because KDE never once broke when I used it.
These days, it’s hard to find apps that aren’t.
Bindass
>> If you hypothesise about it, that's A OK, if you claim that it's 100% verified, that's not, because it's not been proven one way or the other.

But what is used as the ground truth? For the lab leak it will likely never be known. Even so, if Twitter is declaring certain parties as authorities on subjects that's not good - particularly in highly politicized situations.
Lesser evil?
Kindly provide a single example of an alternative to capitalism that was in any way "successful" by metrics vaguely comparable to capitalistic success. No, you cannot point at China, their success over the past 5 decades was entirely a result of privatization and allowing market forces in their country.
Allow me to tell you what I would consider doing if I were, as you are, pretty much set financially. Maybe this will be of use to you.

- buy and renovate a house in my town for my mother to live in as often as she is able to (she lives far away, with a separate family)

- take my mother to the country her family emigrated from, for a nice long trip

- spend a year in the country my wife is from, getting to know her extended family far better than I do

- run for local office in my rural community in order to fight for safer bike and pedestrian access to roadways

- spend a year or so studying to homeschool my daughter (if you want to learn something, try to teach it)

- get involved with a really cool local youth outdoor adventure group, perhaps even find a way to get hired (insurance!)

- identify the most effective means to tackle voter suppression tactics and fund it and otherwise help implement it

- build a wooden boat

- take my hobby fermentation hobby to a retail level, if not a distribution level

- go deep, in one way or another, on any one of the open source projects I am super interested in

- learn to play one of the instruments I put down as a kid (long list!)

- build or/and run a parenting community site that doesn't exist where I live

The grass is always greener, but boy would I love the ability to drop my busywork that pays the mortgage and do some of the above. Maybe, if you imagine yourself in my shoes, you can come up with some ideas that get you excited.

> I feel like I've hit my zenith already

I peaked in high school, and I realized that long ago. The company of a group that cares if you are on your way up is probably not going to give you much solace.
Why do you find that hard to believe? Targeting civilians doesn't mean wiping out the population. And if there wasn't such a large body of prior evidence I might be tempted to agree that some of what we are seeing is isolated, or simple incompetence. But it now seems undeniable that Russia is intentionally targeting civilian infrastructure. And although that may have been effective in Syria, I have no idea what they hope to accomplish with it in Ukraine.
> Personally, it kinda grates on me.

Presumably there are (relatively) straight-forward solutions to this issue no? For instance; accept the money from your parents, invest it into an Index Fund without touching it, and when your parents do pass on, donate the inheritance to GiveDirectly or whatever charity you deem worthwhile.
Counter.Social
I didn't introduce the 10x figure. But if you look at GDP, 10x seems about right. GDP is often used to compare countries, and that the size, and quality of the army you can field is based on GDP of the country, seems somewhat reasonable.
Does she want to continue with education/learning, or do something else entirely?

If she wants to continue in education, a good next step might be a Customer Success role for a company whose customers are schools/districts, e.g. edtech and curriculum companies.
This is actually something I'm trying to avoid given the emotional/morally questionable aspect to using a start up temporarily while I find a better job.

I know ultimately a start up will choose what's best for them (and would lay me off at a moments notice), but the emotional investment just sounds not appealing...

FYI It's about the same here in the US, especially given my YOE. I'm pretty sure I could get a gig at a start up rather quickly.
Absolutely agree, had this one therapist for my son who has ADHD, she would listen to all our concerns and not offer a single suggestion. She would just have this blank stare.
We call them "rail trails"
The official port is dead, but unofficial development builds are still available. E.g. here https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ is a Debian 11 netinst for `powerpc`. More information at https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/
Actually no, all of the racist and sexist rightwing memes he keeps shitposting on Twitter are in fact the issue.
>Musk is simply going to get a low diversity score from that high office

Musk is, bona fide, 100% African American.

Checkmate, atheists.
It's helpful to know that the stuff she's applying for has worked for others you knew! She's also looking for instructor-adjacet corporate stuff. Getting the interviews is definitely the hard part right now.

We're pretty evenly split on most housework, but I agree that picking up some extra to help out would be good.
you're talking about price elasticity and the role of substitutes, for which economists also have simple models that always get over-applied :)
Interesting points but I'm struggling to find the thesis here, at least with respect to military intervention.

Russia and China have a weird relationship. They were, in a way, born together into their current statuses, but Russia isn't Soviet anymore and they don't necessarily represent the image China is going for. Meanwhile Russia wants China for it's economic might and China probably has an interest in resources and land north of Beijing, but at the moment any agreement wouldn't net much for China and represents a great deal of risk in the long term.
ShorTor: Improving Tor Network Latency via Multi-Hop Overlay Routing
"...We present ShorTor, a protocol for reducing latency on the Tor network. ShorTor uses multi-hop overlay routing, a technique typically employed by content delivery networks, to influence the route Tor traffic takes across the internet. ShorTor functions as an overlay on top of onion routing-Tor's existing routing protocol and is run by Tor relays, making it independent of the path selection performed by Tor clients. As such, ShorTor reduces latency while preserving Tor's existing security properties...

... ShorTor reduces the latency for the 99th percentile of relay pairs in Tor by 148 ms. Similarly, ShorTor reduces the latency of Tor circuits by 122 ms at the 99th percentile. In practice, this translates to ShorTor truncating tail latencies for Tor which has a direct impact on page load times and, consequently, user experience on the Tor browser..."

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.04489.pdf
>> What idea have they censored?

Why did they cancel Donald Trump?

BTW I'm not supporting him, just pointing out censorship.
Can you explain your point?

I've installed machine learning environments on numerous Linux machines, it's never been too difficult. If you can't figure out how to do that, then you really shouldn't be in this field.

Here's a guide,
https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-nvidia-rapids

Even if you get something that's pre configured eventually you're going to have to update stuff.

This feels targeted at people who can expensive it to a company account and not worry about the price. Their's no logical reason to buy this over the much cheaper, yet equally speced laptop I posted above. Both are made by Razer, they probably have the same exact warranty if things go wrong.
Also HR positions. I know of several teachers who have gone into HR.
It didn't launch on ethereum, and the largest issuance hasn't been on ethereum for a long time

https://tether.to/en/transparency
Depends on your definition of "fend off". Take back Crimea, I think not going to happen. Make it really hard for the Russians in Donbas, inflicting heavy losses, very achievable. Stopping the Russians from taking over the south, quite likely. The Russians taking over the whole country, that ship has sailed by now.

I don't know many western countries that would tolerate to be invaded, having some territory taken off without fighting back bitterly. I mean this is the whole story of ww1.

In the end it is up to the Ukrainians to decide how much pain they are willing to endure for their independence and freedom. But if they chose to fight, it's not our role to second guess their decision and it is our duty to help them (at least us Europeans - for US citizens, different story).
There exists entirely plausible interpretations of "sweeping" that place the california restrictions above the examples you cited. The draft only targeted males of specific ages, the sedition act removes a much "smaller" set of rights...etc

To be clear, I think the WSG claim is hyperbole. However it is a claim that could be reasonably argued to be correct and is thus not literally "absurd". Thus I would class is as hyperbolic and your use of the word as figurative.
Thanks. I'm really looking forward reading the book, as well as having an excuse to break out the DVD player again. (As a sidenote, one of the unexpected nice parts of COVID lockdowns being over is the ability to have alone time to watch videos of special interest on something other than a personal device as other people leave the house.)

It's interesting to hear that NLP isn't evidence based. That's a blast from the past. I had a friend in college who was very into NLP, and I could never tell if it was realistic or not. It sounded BS-y, but also plausible as anything else with with hypnosis. We played around with whatever source he had dug up, but I could easily believe our lack of results was because of the source or our (at the time) very distracted lives. I can see how some of the same techniques for hypnosis may work without being obvious to the subject.

Did you ever do any hypnotherapy or was that just the source of knowledge you had?
The click-thru page could then display a clarifying “+ x more tweets that are private or not available at this time.”
> You can't hold an adult conversation with people until you figure that out.

It’s a disingenuous argument, that’s normally completely aside from whatever topic is going on at the moment, I doubt anyone using it is interesting in “adult conversation”.
Yes, it would be crazy if rich hobbyists had to stop poisoning kids near airports and either give up their hobby or pay engine replacements.
That's fair. I also left KDE because I wanted a simpler system with less dependencies. I couldn't tolerate GNOME and all the alternatives so I just dropped the entire concept of an integrated desktop environment.

I installed i3 and it changed the way I use computers forever but I still miss many of the KDE applications. I wish there was a way to use them without bringing in the rest of KDE with them.
It also makes people pretend like understanding the conflict is just a matter of doing amateur psychology with the image they get of Putin through the television as a James Bond-style bad guy.

Every time some plain old person tells me what Putin thinks or what Putin wants or what Putin can't stand, I have to leave or change the subject. The way they talk about the Ukraine conflict has no actual physical references. It's like they're telling fairy stories about an evil wizard.
A Gripe about the Los Angeles Metro Bike App
Possible contenders.

https://janet-lang.org

https://fennel-lang.org
The share price is at $45, which means the market is not seeing this as a serious offer.

Given a provision like that, you can see why (financing clauses are a convenient escape hatch when making big purchases).
Because they know it’s a convenience sized item. People wouldn’t pay that amount in a grocery store. But soda prices have gone up a lot just since 2020. I find a 12 pack of cans is and 2L is usually the most economical units and they’ve basically doubled for me.
The thing I hate the most about Fennel is when you go back to Clojure and type `print` rather than `println`.
Haha we've talked about this, but her interest couldn't be farther away from software. I have another family member doing something similar right now.
I mean, a fool and his money are soon parted. This is so obviously either an outright scam or just otherwise not what it claims to be.

If you could truly get "fusion power you can hold in your hand", that has even a decent amount of power output above input, you would basically solve 95% of the problems of humanity. In that case, I'd expect something a little more momentous than a brochureware website.
I have a lot of little programs that are more or less finished: "does what it needs to do and there are no bugs". Some are public, some are not. I wrote them once – sometimes years ago – and they still work fine today.

I really like it that code I write today still works in five or ten years without mucking about to "keep up to date". "Don't upgrade things" isn't as easy as you say: how do you get an old version of Ruby? How do you get an old browser? Do you even want that?

Opt-in should be easy and painless, probably even the default for new projects (through some build file or whatnot; I'm not very familiar with Java), but I think making existing projects work has a lot of value.
> Can't blame them after the Iraq war and everyone getting on a bandwagon of lies including the left, right and center with the exception of Libertarians.

The Left (including most of the center-left Democratic faction in Congress) was against the Iraq War, the more dominant Democratic center-right faction was for it (or, at least, against not giving the President the authority to wage it conditionally, which some of them will distinguish by suggesting that the required determinations made by the President under that authority were in bad faith, but that was pretty predictable...)
They are not allowed to call it that in Russia. It's a "special operation".
Not sure I get the social network or metaverse angle. But basically 0 cost content as it applies to entertainment and maybe other industries as well. It's well beyond metaverse if you consider metaverse or gaming to only be 1 aspect of entertainment. And let's not be mistaken, we're talking about all entertainment not just mass media. Looking forward to things like replacement of restaurants and tourism and even chatting with friends, and this is well ahead of what we need from AGI.
It's a low value Bitcoin fork from Craig Wright, a delusional dude who claims to be Satoshi, so he made a fork where he could control all the Satoshi coins. "SV" means "Satoshi's Vision".
Lol that’s because people have you blocked.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Twilio for SMS?
I'm having atrocious SMS deliverability through Twilio. All of my recipients are OPT-IN only and 100% vetted (the explicitly sign up to receive messages). The message contents are never spam or marketing, only alerts associated with my customers accounts, and my OPT-OUT rate is very low. Yet Twilio keeps telling me that the phone carriers must be filtering my messages. They have no problem continuing to charge me though!

I have a paid Twilio support account, but they have been awful with their response times. I'm at my breaking point with Twilio. Are there any alternatives that you've used successfully?
> But now, if you dare to post anything that doesn't align with what the MSM agenda for the day is. Your comment, post or even your whole sub-reddit gets banned.

Where on earth does this opinion come from? All sorts of vile stuff gets posted to both Reddit and Twitter, and they rarely-if-ever take any action against it. Certain subreddits will still moderate, but community moderators (users of some sort) generally control the moderation of those places, not Reddit or their staff directly.

And in cases where Twitter/Reddit directly take action, it certainly isn't based on an "MSM agenda", it mostly seems to only happen to limit their legal or financial liability.
It doesn't matter if you care about countries. When the place you live gets invaded a lot of the people you know die or worse.
That's a good idea, thanks. We'll poke around and see what we can find.
>I think that to truly appreciate life in a western democracy you need to have some real exposure to the alternative/absence.

Fine. Let's ignore the implication that I live in a bubble and let's focus on this right here.

Most Americans have never left the state they live in. Most Americans don't have the luxury to travel. Most Americans have been left with rising housing costs, food costs, and gas costs. Most Americans have increasingly taken an isolationist view point as the quagmire in the middle east spent trillions abroad with nothing to show at home. By your own yardstick, why is it surprising that many young americans aren't enthusiastic to jump into yet another foreign war?
Twitter is already about as politically biased as they come. Removing its current censorship would improve the platform as an outlet for oppressed people.
If you’re only allowed a single word to represent anything, I’m afraid much of your sentence is incomprehensible because o many of those words simply can’t exist.