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As a parent, I’ve stopped judging other parents. When I see a parent struggling with a “misbehaving” kid in public, I don’t see a failed parent. I just see someone in a difficult situation with no easy way out.

I don’t think “This wouldn’t have happened if the parent followed my parenting philosophy.”

Parenting is hard, we all struggle, and dismissing other people’s ways is easy, but it doesn’t do anything besides making you feel good about yourself.
I'm curious about your thoughts on a hypothetical. Imagine we have a person who, from childhood, is given daily observation, care, assessment and treatment by the truly 'best' doctors available -- assuming we were able to develop a means to measure that. But aside from that he would live his life in a relatively average upper class way in terms of diet/nutrition, activity, and so on. What would you expect to change? How would you expect his life expectancy to vary against the general population? What if we take general population to mean the general population of Japan?

This is relevant as I think the views here help determine where the focus in healthcare ought be.
We can and do. The question is whether we need to go further, and tell everyone they can't let slur-users play with their stuff.
While it is a comedy, if you don't get the jokes, it ends up more like a Star Trek show.

I think it is the best Star Trek-like show since Stargate Unvierse.

I am watching Star Trek Discovery, and I am confused by the higher tech of the Discovery over the tech used in the Star Trek movies that happen 10 years later. Good fight scenes and battles, but Klingons keep being rebooted in every Star Trek franchise? I am guessing there are like 4 or 5 different types of Klingon races like TOS Klingon-Human fusions, Star Trek TMG/TNG Klingons with bigger forehead ridges, Star Trek Nemesis Romulan-Klingon hybrids created with cloning, Star Trek Reboot 2009 Klingons, and now Star Trek Discovery Klingons with more ridges (Ruffles joke?) and in black or white skin colors? I wonder what the Commander Worf reboot will look like?
That would be effectively impossible, because the authenticity of a unique stamp can be verified on the blockchain. Of course, this only matters if people are valuing specific stamps based on their verifiable uniqueness in a specific blockchain, and not just their consumable content (e.g. it’s trivial to share a screenshot of one of these kitties.)
Yes, the question is, why can't we? Becasue apparently we can't stop at that point. We've already gone so far past that that the slippery slope has been established in this case.
I did some market research back in the day and there was a lot negative opinions on even attempting to measure performance based on patient outcomes because “each case is unique”.

To me there were two things at play: possibly the sample size of number of patients doctors see with the same problem might be too small and there was genuinely a lot of fear that the doctor’s skill could be boiled down to protocols and statistics.

I think the biggest hurdle toward improving patient outcomes will be alleviating the fear and then after that figuring out how to give better context to the data.
yeah, I considered holding onto a pair of old 2950s but ditched them considering my peak electricity rate is 43c kw/h. This setup makes me shudder.
Sure, if you force people to behave a certain way, the conflict can be avoided.

The problem stems from the fundamental fact that a very small percentage of people are assholes, a faction of people are intent on forcibly silencing and harming assholes for being assholes, and a faction of people are intent on not permitting that second group of people to do so.

That's the problem: two groups of people are prepared to use force to enact their contrary visions, while a third (relatively small group) is catalyzing the conflict.
It isn't the government that is doing that. It is society as a group that has decided that "no slurs" is the norm. If you want to use slurs, use them in a subgroup that for whatever reasons deem them acceptable. Don't use them around society as a whole as it has decided that there are social consequences for using them. Again, if you don't like it either campaign to change it or exclude yourself from society but don't conflate the social contract with government authoritarianism.
The Mona Lisa isn’t yet a digital good. But in time it will be possible to make perfect copies, and that raises all sorts of interesting questions.
Every free speech absolutist should be asked to explain Germany.
Ah, the walking corpse of yellow journalism!

The ultimate problem is that so much power has been centralized by the surveillance industry, that the politicking gadflys can't not come buzzing. Google, Twitter, Reddit et al are already turning over every rock hunting for our time's communists, but according to this article they still aren't prostrating themselves hard enough! The choosing of the losing strategy of appeasement never cease to amaze me - this is what real power looks like in a democracy!

The obvious answer is to let these centralized surveillance cesspools wither and die, assisted by the blight such as this article. The Free world will move past the sinkhole of "web 2.0" and on to uncensorable decentralized communications. As the identity politickers (aka racists) turn grey, their kids will be discovering the actual Internet.
No. But the potential is there. They were better off separate as they operated as different entities but together their incentives are overlapped and the potential to exert undue power over the market is that much easier. Separate Comcast and NBC had no incentive to go into any exclusive agreements. Disney buying Marvel is a similar case. They are pulling content licensed for viewing on Netflix into their own service. Not illegal but not a win for consumers in an already crowded steaming market. And unfair to Netflix in that sense.
Iirc CIA study seems to suggest that there is a point of diminishing with data. At some point, it starts to make a human agent overconfident and over reliant on the data to the point where it is worse than having less data. Now, add the fact that we have nation states as well as other actors working hard to influence us. How difficult wood it be to plant data into a mass surveillance system? Even assuming every politician and every government employee has perfect ethical and moral standing, can we completely trust our surveillance system?

My thought is this: likely whatever your trying to keep secret, out adversaries have seen it.
In the US it seems that the first amendment's principle is very, very clear in that regard. This was the draft proposed to Congress here below, which is longer than the final version but clearly represents the thinking behind it without ambiguity:

> The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed. The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.

In other words, the first amendment is clearly against censorship of any kind.
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Then the power rests with whoever decides what is and isn't a "slur".
>We see problems that we can fix, why wouldn't we?

Because we don't know its a problem. We have ideas that may or may not be sound. But we push them on the world with a fervor far beyond that which is justified by the facts, going so far as to criminalize non-abusive spanking in some places.

>Does it seem brutish or incivil to stoop to physical means to adjust your child?

These just aren't the types of judgments that a make sound basis for widespread forcible change of parenting styles.
Those are bad acronyms because they hide poorly written law which-- at least with the PATRIOT act-- time has shown has been abused to extend well past what its original (conservative) author intended or imagined.

GNU is a bad acronym IMO because it is anti-social to use an inside joke for the name of an operating system whose raison d'être is to be shared with the public.

"Hello, I'm Neu. What's your name?"

"My name is This-is-not-my-name."

I feel like Neu should just move on and socialize with other folks, but maybe that's just me.
> I don't think so.

I asked that question of a Canadian doctor further in this thread.
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I'm confused, are you saying that industrial resource extraction is evil? I certainly don't think so. It's a necessary part of our economy and our quality of life. Think the applications for gold in medical devices, for example.

But the benefits of resource extraction to society don't justify ignoring the interests of people living nearby. Ditto for creating new housing near highly desirable urban zones.

If anything the gold mine has an advantage in that, while people can live other places (even if at a somewhat lesser quality of life) you can't can't really build the mine somewhere else.
So how would you go about preventing this from happening? The false reporting of outcomes by those in power.
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I get a sense from this article of being slightly satirical (while also being blatantly critical).

The following quotes illustrate my intuition a little more clearly.

From the article:

"newsgroups...that streamed onto the school’s computer terminals via Usenet, an early precursor to today’s Internet forums."

"I.T. administrators soon decided to block the group. “Jokes based on such stereotypes perpetuate racism, sexism, and intolerance,” they wrote in a note that appeared on terminals campus-wide."

Along with the retro-looking GIF, the specific mention of Usenet's age, as well as the use of the word "terminal" seem to make a connection. Specifically, it seems to be drawing a parallel between this type of thinking (censoring free speech to protect certain groups) and old technology.

One may find this analysis off-base, but it caught my eye immediately so I thought I'd share.
it is unstable because you didn't sanitize your user input before committing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_sanitization
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> https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/06/12/a-weird-system-call-process-...

> does this tool, that can spit out Ruby stack traces quickly for any Ruby program with debugging symbols enabled, actually exist somewhere and I just don’t know about it?

To your question in your other post you linked in your post: Maybe you mean APM, it stands for application performance monitoring. Search for "Ruby APM". Maybe the can inspire you for your tool. Good luck
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I saw an incredible video about a drone motor factory in China that made me think the days of China being behind technologically must surely come to an end, and sooner than we think.
> It is society as a group that has decided that "no slurs" is the norm.

Society is not a uniform group with a single way of thinking.
Society is not a force of nature such that its decrees carry the weight of natural law.

People can (and often should) resist what society decrees, because it's only through that dynamic tension of conflicting forces in society that we can reasonably advance.

> I believe it is a good thing that there are things society has deemed unacceptable and acknowledge that I give up some of my absolute freedoms to live in such a society.

You buried the lede -- your whole post is really dressing up why we shouldn't resist a societal decision you personally heavily agree with, while not giving real credence to people who disagree with you.

Pitching society-uber-als when society has made the choice you like is really cheap partisanship.

> Freedom of expression is not foundational. Certainly inciting violence, advocating genocide, or engaging in targeted and repeated harassment does not fall under the auspice of an unalienable and foundational right.

These are also things on which many people radically disagree with you. Stating them as facts is just begging the question.
It's like 30 words, I think we can handle it.
I've seen tech companies come and go and make the same mistakes as Apple, and I know how to solve them. A pity nobody wanted to listen to what I had to say and "How dare you criticize Apple?"

I was an Apple Critic from way back in the early 1990s, and I said Apple should get away from propriety technology and use standards like USB, IDE, etc. Then rewrite the OS based on some form of Unix and port the GUI and ability to run older apps. I was laughed at, my site was attacked, someone doxed me and I had to change phone numbers. But when Apple bought Next and brought Steve Jobs back and he made the iMac with IDE and USB and then took NextOS and MacOS and made MacOSX.

After that I said they should make Intel Macs with their PowerPC Macs and see which ones sell better and do better. I was laughed at again. But Apple did switch to Intel chips.

Without critics, tech companies won't have any idea how to fix any of this stuff.
Why wouldn’t they send you the image??
Hiding the ways in which your code isn't really Haskell (e.g. isn't going to be compatible with other random Haskell code) doesn't strike me as a fix. Why are there so many extensions in the first place?
We absolutely can. No one's gone to jail for being a racist or a misogynist. Hooray, everything's fine.
I am a fan of Cyberspace Manifesto. I think one reason where normal people don't appreciate freedom of speech and computer experts do is the analogy between our own thought processes and communicating with other people.

We certainly don't want society to censor our own thoughts (with technology). But why should the government then censor willing communication between two people? From a computing perspective, those are the same.

Sadly, as was already noted, the article is nowhere close to arguing this point.
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Nothing, if you’re permitted to make copies of the source of the reproduction (e.g. you went to The Louvre and took a photograph). I would have said that you likely can’t legally print or sell an image of the Mona Lisa you find on Google Images, but Wikipedia says:

> The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".

Anyway, reproductions of public domain paintings are commonly produced and sold for far less than the market value of the original.
>Certainly inciting violence, advocating genocide, or ... do not fall under the auspice of an unalienable and foundational right.

Abstract advocacy of illegal violence (as distinguished from inciting imminent illegal violence) is constitutionally protected speech under the First Amendment. Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969).
Interestingly, I had an article featured om HN related to how easy this is to exploit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14518356
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Do you understand what you are saying?

A person, moving a magnet near a single wire - not even a coil - is going to induce utterly insignificant amounts of electricity.

You'd need lab equipment to even detect it. It will do absolutely nothing whatsoever to computer electronics.
No one's going to jail for using slurs. The rhetoric around this has gotten really heated, especially given that we have many other actual problems (North Korea, global warming) we should be spending our energy on.
what part of "backed by Oil" did you not understand?
Sure, optimising environmental factors would undoubtably be helpful and is a laudable goal.
Geez, this story got flagged? What happened to forced absolute free speech in all possible forums? Some people sure are sensitive snow flakes.
If by “perfect copy” you mean a physical copy that cannot be distinguished in a blind testfrom the original in any way, then of course we don’t yet have that capability. Perhaps with advanced scanning and 3D printing that would be possible, but I suspect the true original would still maintain higher value as long as a trustworthy chain of custody was maintained. As soon as a thief removes the original long enough to potentially swap it with a perfect copy, the market value of any alleged original would likely vanish.
Discussed in 2014 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7664301.
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I agree that it makes no sense. A magnet outside the case is not going to do anything to the platters.

kees99 posted a possible explanation, where the magnet moves the voice coil, which ends up destroying the drive by writing data in the wrong places.
Flow and TypeScript are used a fair bit and both have adoption in big organizations that make big, commonly used tools. I don't think any of the compile-to-JS languages have ever really got quite that far and I'm somewhat skeptical they will.
We'll add it.
Prepared statements only get you so far though, they're fine for parameters, but often you run into situations where you do have to build sql manually to be able to order and filter on fields dynamically. Then once part of the query is generated by string concatenation the temptation is always there to just add that one little string parameter. I've seen various mechanisms to order dynamically, but nothing as simple and readable as "if orderBy == 'foo' then sql += 'order by foo'". Dynamic filtering has a few approaches but I've seen a lot of performance issues from them. Most sql optimizers have a much better time if you concatenate the exact query you need in code.

I would argue that 99% of the time such UI's arise from a failure to understand and cater to user workflows, but they still exist in the wild and I don't seem them disappearing any time soon.
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"trajectory" "turbulance" please tell me someone has already made an "i wish i could fly" joke, if not im sure Keith Harris is turning in his grave
As far as I know Canadians don't all rush to some superstar doctors. This is also not happening in Germany either. This is the same simplistic thinking when people say that if health care is for free they will consume more. This is simply not happening in countries where health care is free.
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> Don't just spread lies.

Would you mind editing out such name-calling from your comments here? The rest of your comment makes your point just fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I have no problem with an episodic show, but I think an episodic Trek-like has problems. It just isn't plausible that a starship can come inches from destruction every week. The crew would wind up severely traumatized. If space travel were that dangerous, interstellar society would collapse. And it's implausible that they discover some Amazing Thing (like time travel) that should totally shatter their conception of reality and then forget about it in time for the next episode.
To acertain extend you are complaining that the US transportation strategy, which was long-time favouring trucks over train and resultet in a very old-fashioned public transport system, is now back-firing?
Firefox Quantum, and just about everything to do with the browser since Firefox first introduced both their rapid release cycle and Australis, have left me cold. As far as the others, sure there's development - all in a negative direction away from simplicity and into a grotesque and bloated Web into one entirely built on corporate marketing ideas.
Ideally, from my point of view, estimations should be not over nor under-estimated. They should be on point. Sure, on first glance, under-estimation leads to worse outcomes than oversetimation. But it will still lead to negative outcomes. Rational actors on the wrole chain will benefit and extract the most utility when they are as correct as possible.

While your example showed how project implementation can creep up, I already knew that and my problem is more my inability to give accurate estimates and people's willingness to stretch their estimates by a lot. I KNOW some of you will not agree with me, but I think that giving 4x as long estimates will lead to developers spending more time on the actual implementation without noticeable improvements in the delivery. I know my natural tendency is to do so.
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No, the ports on the Macbook are PCIe + Displayport. The Apple displays are PCIe only. The parent was specifically talking about Thunderbolt. You aren't using anything Thunderbolt when you plug into a DP monitor.
The attitude this piece bemoans is something that used to be widespread in Internet culture, and I am sad to see it dying out.

I suppose the goal to make a freer world out of the Internet was always destined be lost. The battle against the Clipper chip was a huge victory for that culture and the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA were a huge loss. But it was a loss the culture was conscious of, a bid by outside forces to keep it from getting "too big for its britches."

Now it feels like that culture has been entirely swallowed up. Google/YouTube/Twitter/Facebook are beholden to advertising dollars and their internal speech mores look, from outside Silicon Valley, to be indistinguishable from other circles of their location and social class.
it also demonstrates very clearly that eth sure as hell doesnt scale well right now
I'm aware but if there were a central place then, as iamthirsty replied, English would most likely end up the default there. This was to help support k_ and eclectic's points.

Honestly, it might be interesting if there were a central, yet multilingual, place where tech-oriented Europeans could congregate just to see what would happen.
> You buried the lede -- your whole post is really dressing up why we shouldn't resist a societal decision you personally heavily agree with, while not giving real credence to people who disagree with you.

That is a fair criticism. A counterpoint to my own post would be that pushing what is acceptable and questioning the norm is what has always driven progress, be it abolishing slavery, accepting other sexualities, religions, scientific views, etc. My point was rather that rights like expression are not absolute by the nature of the social contract. Requiring that they be unimpeachable is not compatible with living in a social structure.

> These are also things on which many people radically disagree with you. Stating them as facts are just begging the question.

There are people that disagree for sure. The point isn't that those, in particular, are universally agreed upon but that there exist limits to absolute freedom.
I really find the original comment very strange, and quite shocking that it's currently the top comment. In particular the way it singles out "mostly mothers" as being "bad parents".

Parenting is very hard, if these mothers are the sole/primary care-givers they are doing an extremely difficult job.

For those who haven't experienced this, the difficulty in my view is not dealing with an isolated situation. It's dealing with these situations every day, over an extended period of time. It's hard work, and it's hard to get everything right.
but this doesn't make sense at all because you can just send eth to someone else relatively anonymously.
Not sure what your relevant experience is, but in my experience large healthcare institutions are constantly measuring their performance.

The problem is comparing it in a useful way across different institutions.
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