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I agree with the comments that it's their store and they can do what they want with it, and Jones actively uses his platform to bully individuals so I'm not disappointed to see it diminished.

That said, the trend of centralization of Podcasts worries me a bit. Podcasts were one of the few real success stories of an open syndication format that allowed an ecosystem of podcast apps to flourish. I've noticed a trend where podcasts make it hard to find the RSS URL or even make it hidden and require you subscribe on the major platforms. Let's not turn podcasting into the same walled garden we have for every other aspect of syndicated content!
> makes communities better for everyone.

Not at all proven, and there's substantial evidence that for certain categories of abuse it makes no difference.

> edge case affecting a tiny minority

The whole point of equalities law is that you can't inflict things on people simply with the justification that they're a minority; you have to make arguments along the lines of it being necessary, proportionate, and that you've tried to mitigate the harm.

> The state of discussion on the internet seems to have deteriorated since the major platforms abandoned their real name policies a few years ago.

Usenet people like to date the deterioration of discourse back to ... 1993. Again this is kind of anecdotal and we'd have to define things like "state of discussion" and "deteriorated".

> People should be free to publish "hate speech"

OK, now you're really going to have to define "state of discussion" and "deteriorated", as well as "makes communities better for everyone", because hate speech is one of the very important things that we're trying to get rid of.
Platforms are more dangerous than people. Especially when they get to decide who's dangerous and who's allowed what.
Oh, heard, understood and acknowledged. I get that completely (don't know that I agree that it's a good reason to take him off the air). My story wasn't meant to suggest this isn't the case for many, but to just share an anecdote of the humor Mr. Jones brings to my life because I tend to appreciate absurdity when I see it.

I'm still sitting behind this keyboard chuckling slightly at the idea that a human being has the capacity to be so completely apoplectic over homosexual amphibians.
That's not what I said. I'm saying it's naïve to think there is no political aspect to a decision to impose a fine of e.g. billions of euro. It's possible to both make this observation and to support the fine itself.
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There's a difference between being able to recognize your ten friends and having a database of millions of people's faces.
"It's not outlawed, just inconvenient to access" is more than enough influence to dramatically (~90%) shape what information is consumed with no natural truth-seeking mechanism beyond your trust in the people imposing the inconvenience. There's a reason it's illegal for the government to do this, and we should demand that neutral platform organizations like Apple, Facebook, or a university don't do it either (which is not the same thing as saying that they should be forced by law to do it).
You've never written exploratory code before?
if he was playing a character, and had disclaimers as such at the beginning, middle, and ending of his podcast, i'd love alex jones. kind of a "what would he say next?" sort of thing, mixed with plenty of onion-esque satire.

the problem is he's not. he holds these beliefs, and with his platform, he's leading other people to hold them as well. some are fairly benign, like gay frogs. others are downright sick, like calling the sandy hook kids crisis actors.

what i'm getting at is someone needs to mirror him, with disclaimers that everything that comes out of the host's mouth is ludicrous, asinine, and should never be considered rational thought. like the jackass intros, "you, and all your stupid little friends, should never try this at home."
The dawn of the wintel, perhaps?
The inevitable discussion about the
need for hate speech laws in the USA is lurking. Sadly, the USA had a chance at them a while back, but I believe it was Justice Scalia who struck it down?
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Apple never pretended to have a curatorially-neutral stance in their ecosystem [0], and personally I’d prefer a private company burying content VS government criminalizing it any day of the week.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#obj...
Would you say John Oliver serves that role pretty decently?
For anybody else not familiar, the Knight-Darwin Law is the idea that plants do not self-fertilize exclusively (many plants have both male and female sex organs). Darwin goes on at length in On The Origin of Species about the mechanisms that plants employ to avoid self fertilization.

My own take is that this makes a lot of sense. Male and female sex organs are pretty sophisticated adaptations. Features which are that complicated generally don’t evolve unless they are useful and there are easier ways for an organism to clone itself than self fertilization.
Good call, Twitter, Facebook, and Google should ban Trump and all republicans. We’ve had enough of their crackpot ideas.

They literally put children in cages.
The article says as much, but this is a hard problem with no great solutions.

Some of the places that traffic in Jones kind of craziness are the conspiracy and greatawakening subreddits. The former is absurdly abused by the mods while Holocaust deniers and child abuse accusations run rampant (this is why that's not cool Musk) and you get banned for opposing that and other lunacy.

The latter subreddit is kind of terrifying. It's straight on cult behavior complete with subprophets with obvious mental illness breaking down their supposed communications from Trump and "Q" - and people not only believe it but celebrate it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/9284sg/trum...

I've no doubt this existed before (how did the militant movements organize prior to Waco and OKC?) but I wonder if the spread of some of this lunacy (Q) would be possible if the platform wasn't provided to them. I kind of wait for the day that Reddit has to shut that down because of how bad it looks, but I hope it's not because of some violent and paranoid act fueled by it.
There's no predicate or limit or inner join that could reduce the set of rows, so the table might as well be scanned.
I believe the term being looked for is "martyr".

Being banned from prominent platforms in a country which professes to believe in free speech (professes, because there's a bunch of caveats) is only going to boost the signal.

This (in concert with the banning of certain DNS entries) is going to bite us in the ass. Of course, what else are we to do?
Here's sort of a relevant critique to that idea: http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensiv...

Not saying that there isn't merit to the idea. Just saying that program synthesis is more or less synonymous with programming language design when you take into account the challenges involved.
That is interesting to me I haven't actually read anything that can be considered a modern best seller on my Kindle, so the books that I generally order are cheaper to get the Kindle version. That being said I do agree with your point if I had to pay more for the Kindle version I would immediately buy the physical book.
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> A modern example of this is that it's really easy to look at history and say Y2K was overblown and everybody should have known it. But at the time, it was a rational fear, and the reason why it didn't happen is that people worked really, really hard.

This mythos is playing out now in the Brexit debate, where because nothing too bad happened in y2k everyone who makes projections about the likely bad impact of "no deal", including the government's own preparedness staff, are dismissed as "scaremongering".

History becomes propaganda unless you watch it very carefully.
Ciao Zaarn, that is cool compliments, which sort of encoding you chose?
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I strongly disagree with this thinking and think at worst, it could be harmful.

You wouldn't want your heart,brain,etc operation to be in the hands of someone who isn't that talented but keeps on trying.
Every great advancement looks like a crackpot idea until it doesn't. The beauty of a public space is that anyone can bring their soapbox and share their beliefs, that most minority beliefs are wrong doesn't detract from the value of accessible minority beliefs.
Obvious question: who decides who the dangerous people are? You?
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I've had multiple arguments with people recently in which people have recommended not reading classic books on the grounds that the author held "toxic" views --- even when the work being recommended had nothing to do with these views, when the views were very common at the time (e.g., imperialism can be good), or when, upon closer inspection, the author didn't even hold these views at all, and just "lived in a structure that profited from them".

This anti-classics argument is distressingly common and it's impoverishing us intellectually. This style of argumentation is a lazy and formulaic way of dismissing practically any greater thinker. It's petty and shortsighted to cast aspersions over useful and influential work on the grounds of insufficient wokeness on the part of the dead.
I don't think they have a 'bad icon' problem as much as a 'too many services' problem. I'm not necessarily saying that they need less functionality, just that they need to divide it up into fewer named/iconed chunks of functionality.
Point well made. I got 2/20 and I’ve historically been paid to use this stuff.
I think there's merit to his argument. People really are very stupid, especially in groups. Maybe you're smart enough to realize that burning rainforests and doubling down on fossil fuels is a stupid strategy, but there is no shortage of people in the US, who actually have an education no less (unlike many people in developing nations where the rainforests are being burned), who really think we can't hurt the environment and laws to protect the environment are wrong. In fact, there's probably a bunch of them right here on this site; they usually call themselves "libertarians", and will scream about "private property rights" in regards to this issue.

It'd be nice if humanity was smart enough and empathetic enough to avoid the horrible mistakes we've made, but we're really not.
There is no chance of that. As someone who has played music games for 20 years with timing windows as small as around 15ms I can safely say anything less than 10ms would be imperceptible.

It isn't about training and practice. There is just a physical limitation of being a human.
Because, rightly, corporations do not pay tax on revenue, but on profit. The reason for this is that it should not cost more in taxes to buy something from a company which has secondary suppliers, than from a vertical company.
There is no traditional process that has you knowing everything about everything much less be able to reverse identify an implementation with the underpinning concept.

There are things I know much more of than you do. Seems a bit masturbatory for me to see you miss a concept and go “ah, the modern lack of traditional learning processes!”
Nah, the Streisand effect only applies when increased attention on a subject would result in a negative result. "Barbera Streisand wants photos of her beachfront mansion removed because she thinks it's an invasion of her privacy" reflects badly on Barbera Stresiand. "Apple is removing Infowars because it traffics in outright lies" reflects badly on Infowars.
The simplest counter-example is Wikipedia. Most links on any page could lead to generic term definitions, or they could link to explanations of how those terms work withing the context of the page.

I.e. a link to "synthesizers" on a page about FM synthesis could lead to a generic article on synthesizers, or to a list of FM synthesizers released up to date.

And that's just the most obvious example. Having different "linking contexts" would allow to add more links without turning the original document into a mess.

Again, using Wikipedia as an example, you could add another "context" to the page by linking various paragraphs to citations. That would be much more user-friendly than what they do right now with bracketed numbers.
Google "atrazine frogs" and you'll get plenty of left leaning environmental articles talking about pesticide runoff turning frogs from male to female.

The "turning frogs gay" is reductive and hyperbolic, but unlike most of the nonsense spouted by Jones it is at least grounded in something resembling fact.
well, here are the stakes.

de-platforming emboldens and somewhat substantiates their narrative that they are being persecuted. peripheral followers may view this as a confirmation of what they have said, and draw closer to them, following them to a new platform.

NOT de-platforming them allows their repeated publications to reach a wider audience. gradually, peripheral followers are attracted anyway, and the loyal followers may become more zealous over time.

the real problem here is that both of these possibilities assume that people are 100% passive and 100% fixed in terms of their susceptibility to propaganda or non-mainstream theories.

the sad thing is that alex jones is not remotely persuasive to anyone with a modicum of critical thinking. the debate around whether de-platforming is useful or not is the wrong debate. the debate should be about how we can make the public more critical and more endowed with the ability to think! an intellectually vicious public is not a public that cares much about whether alex jones is allowed to blather because the blathering has little impact even if it is in a public area.

the elitists will jump in and say that the public will never be able to think for themselves. but it's to the advantage of those in power to never try to make the public intelligent and critical. we haven't even tried.
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Ask HN: Why wireless laptop peripherals connect to dongle instead of Bluetooth?
Let's use this "Bluetooth / wireless" Jabra headset as an example https://www.jabra.com/business/office-headsets/jabra-evolve/jabra-evolve-75

Despite the misleading product website, the headset will NOT connect to your laptop via Bluetooth - it will wirelessly connect to a USB (A!) dongle.

I did some research recently and I can not find an office headset that will connect to my laptop via Bluetooth without a dongle or a base. Also many wireless mouses and keyboards connect to a dongle, with the notable exception of Apple products. What is going on?
Serious question: how do you make sure that none of this stuff you're listening to leaks into your perception of the real world? Are you sure you're just regarding it as some weird dystopian fiction, like Scarfolk or the SCP foundation, and not letting it affect your real politics?
The fact that private stores can do what they want does not mean that they should do what they want or that consumers shouldn't demand otherwise. More generally, not all bad behavior is or should be illegal. The fact that the first amendment only legally applies to the government does not mean that free speech as a concept doesn't have moral force on other organizations.

For instance, we expect universities to act as neutral debate platforms for all sorts of views that are not endorsed by the university administration. When they fail to do this, they are not legally penalized (modulo constraints from accepting government funding), but we (should) lower their public esteem. Newspapers and online media companies like Apple and Facebook could and should be held to a similar standard by the public, although in practice they are unfortunately given more latitude.
hahaha, this is great
>and we should demand that neutral platform organizations like Apple, Facebook, or a university don't do it either (which is not the same thing as saying that they should be forced by law to do it)

What sorts of demands would be listened to or have any chance of being effective if not having the weight of force of law behind it?
I mean- that’s one opinion. Any evidence that that’s the case?
In The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt, the author extends a metaphor where humans act as a person riding an elephant. The elephant is strong and self-willed, and although it may be open to suggestions by the rider, it will ultimately be the prevailing force when dealing in immediate/reactionary circumstance. Over a period of time, the rider can influence the elephant such that it has a different "lean" in the future.

You seem to grapple with feeling hypocritical by not having a logical response to something you later find to be wrong, but perhaps your elephant simply wasn't "leaning" in the direction of the wrong-sayer.

I like the idea that the majority of forces acting on a humans actions/behavior are non-verbal; not necessarily big news, but it helps me to justify why I have trouble communicating with friends who are on the bleeding edge of social politics while I spend my weeks writing proprietary code and reading classic fiction novels.
Agreed. Also, freedom of speech doesn’t mean unlimited rights to all broadcast venues for speech.
If these guys want to publish stuff on their own website, no one is stopping them.
We should obviously let the current President or House Majority leader decide. Nothing bad could happen.
It is free expression for the privately run platforms to ban him.
¿Por qué no los dos? :-p
I agree; I "got into" Alex Jones because it was genuinely funny to see this narrative of a reality that exists only in video games and conspiracy fiction. It was so nakedly transparent as a kind of LARP and entertainment to front a largely boring reactionary conservatism (edit: and sell powders).

That all changed when either he "lost the plot" and began to believe it all, or the constant need to stay ahead of the news cycle (everything's a false flag, everyone in Hollywood or DC is a homosexual/pedophile/drug user, etc), combined with increasing mainstream coverage, make it genuinely harmful.

That the mask only drops in response to lawsuits is the tell, I think, and that's why I'm not really concerned about this having hugely unintended consequences and chilling effects. If his lawyers are to be believed (yeah, I know, don't @ me) then he's a grifter and actor but his storyline is harmful. No one has to carry his content; he can create his own media network and distribute it there.
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Brings to mind another related absurd pedagogical approach the "lies to children" approach of starting by saying that molecules are the smallest object possible. Then atoms. Instead of being truthful and mentioning quarks but saying they are so advanced and deep that even most physicists don't even do anything with them calculation related or otherwise.
If the icons were good, the quiz wouldn't need to exist, right? So the mere fact that there is a quiz already biases the result.
I believe the gay frogs thing is based on the effects of atrazine in the water:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100301151927.h...
> Dangerous people shouldn't be allowed platforms

MLK was a borderline enemy of the state in the 1950s because he petitioned for equal rights. Who gets to decide who is "dangerous"?
Because, while I might not remember/recognize all their obscure logos, I actually remember/differentiate between the few frequently-used ones.

Also, the logos are color-coded by "service category" if I'm not wrong
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What kind of definition of normal is that? History is conflict and struggle. You don't understand that conflict by calling it "normal".
I am not a AWS user but I am familiar with what several of the AWS services do. I looked over the quiz and I could not answer even a single question.

I also think the quiz is to prove a point. Those icons are not helpful at all. The opposite of the MS Office icons which are so recognizable all other office suites copied the color scheme.
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Properly administered IQ tests with real psycometric rigor evaluate both, insofar as either can be empirically measured.
Aws feels like it was built by a bunch of siloed teams. There's a lot of design inconsistency I notice every time I'm in the console. For example, deleting entities is never consistent. Some just do it, some ask you to type in the name, some as you to type "delete me".

Some entities have a name and a description field that are immutable on creation, even though they also have a unique id. I now have drop downs everywhere that list "Rds creation wizard VPC" or something long those lines.

Its not clear what fields are drop downs so I have to type stuff into them to see if they'll give me a list of options.

The UI uses the same styles but inconsistent language. In ECS there's a list of entities. To delete an entity you have to go into it and delete all its children. Then the entity disappears.

I know there's engineering reasons for all this, but I feel like they can do better than settle for engineer grade UI.
It is almost like the auto generated gravatar icons.
Since there's nothing limiting the set of rows from project_commits, it might as well table-scan it. The primary key on commits will be used for each left join lookup.

Nested loops aren't that different, performance-wise, than sorted merge joins. Sorting takes O(n log n); whereas the nested loop does n lookups, each taking O(log n), for a similar O(n log n). Memory allowing, a hash join has more potential for speedup.

There should be a locality win from a sorted merge - depending on the correlation between scan order and foreign key order, the index lookups in the nested loop may be all over the place. Usually this doesn't matter much because you don't normally do 5+ billion row joins.
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Social science research indicates that it isn't about "hiding" hate directed speech, but rather to consider the impact on the victims of such speech. That is, when one is able to say the word "hiding", it is spoken from the position of privilege; it is a very real existential threat to those impacted.

Constricting hate speech has a notable impact on the dignity and well-being of those impacted[1].

[1] EG: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504630.2015.11...