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One fun thing about the capability model is that at the system call level, there are no absolute paths. All filesystem path references are relative to base directory handles. So even if an application thinks it wants something in C:\stuff, it's the job of the libraries linked into the application to map that to something that can actually be named. So there's room for the ecosystem to innovate, above the WASI syscall layer, on what "C:\" should mean in an application intending to be portable.

Concerning character encodings, and potentially case sensitivity, the current high-level idea is that paths at the WASI syscall layer will be UTF-8, and WASI implementations will perform translation under the covers as needed. Of course, that doesn't fix everything, but it's a starting point.
You're implying that a representative democracy is a liberal system, which does not follow. Maybe you could argue that it has the best potential to be liberal, but history is replete with examples of huge violations of individual liberties under these governments.

Perhaps calling into question the legitimacy of democracy is a good thing? Indeed, why is it legitimate to violate an individual's liberties through a vote of 50% + 1 of her peers?

Edit: I'll echo the peer comment that a reasonable compromise could be smaller units of government, which better represent the people. Smaller states also the limit the scope of abuse of the people within and the threat to people without.
I was recently in Seoul South Korea for a month, and there were a few very bad pollution days. At first I thought there must be a fire close. Then the locals informed me it comes from China and their factories. Koreans are obviously not happy about it, and there seemed to be a sense of disdain for China.
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What is the moral value in allowing group X to threaten the very existence of group Y? I don't mean saying that group Y should be kicked off Platform.com, I mean threatening to kill group Y IRL.
A friend of mine served in the Air Force on the refueling planes that serviced the SR-71s. He said that it was hard for the refueling plane to go as fast as the SR-71's slowest speed! So they did the refueling in a shallow dive, to give the refueling plane a boost.
That's not the case. You don't even need a sim card for WhatsApp.
I'm surprised people are still buying these models with all the issues with keyboards, GPU glitches, T2 chip, etc.

The repair program doesn't really solve anything. I'm willing to bet most MBP owners do not have a second Mac to keep working while it is being repaired.

Also, at least in Mexico, Apple is being super strict about which machines go into the repair program. I know a couple of people with keyboard problems that were told there was no problem with the keyboard.
They ban a subset of Islamic content at least: the terrorist propaganda that leads to terrorist acts. If you assume that white nationalist content leads to terrorist acts too, then it only makes sense to ban it as well.
C++. If you want to read through a huge argument on HN regarding the merits of that decision, check out this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16813796
The Would-Be Assassin and the Camera (2013)
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, etc.. are user-generated content publishers. They have the right to refuse whatever content they feel like.

This is the same as a newspaper refusing to publish an op-ed they don't agree with.
Thanks for the explanation. That makes more sense.
Is there any single piece of technology that's more retro-futuristic than the SR-71? It is undefinably iconic especially if you understand what happened behind the scenes. Lockheed's Skunk Works managed to not only look into the future, but they managed to make it manifest in the past.

The first one took flight over fifty years ago and we still talk about it as if they represent the promise of the future. As a culture and community, we rarely view Project Apollo in the same way. To me, in contrast to the Blackbird, our first step outside our cradle looks dated. The Saturn V is an ode to the sheer force of will required to send human beings to another heavenly body. It certainly looks the part. The Blackbirds, on the other hand, were precise, surgical instruments designed to cut borders and they look the part. Every element of the plane ends in that sharp-looking edge. There are no blunt surfaces on it. It’s one complex curve wrapped around itself and stretched into that timeless shape.

And that's before you pull back on the curtain. I don't have online sources for this, but I have read books about the project that explained how every single part within the Blackbirds - from the engines to the paint - was brought into being for this project. They set out to do something so daring and so pioneering that they had to invent new alloys to do it. And then they had to build the machines to work that alloy: new machines - tape-based robots - to precisely carve it into shape, new procedures to put it together, and new philosophies to let it fly. These planes were designed to fly so fast that ordinary Titanium-based alloys would melt or weaken over time leading to rapid, unplanned disassembly. They didn’t have more advanced ceramics which could do the job, so Kelly Johnson’s team came up with a new alloy that was annealed - or re-tempered - in flight, so that it became stronger and stronger over time. Theoretically above some classified altitude the Blackbird can go much faster than Mach 3 and keep on going until the airframe melts away at some crazy high, theoretical speed no one has bothered to check.

They did all of that in a past where the most sophisticated engineering tool in common use was a slide rule and the first scientific pocket calculator was nearly a decade into the future.

Do you ever wonder when we'll build something so daring that it will finally eclipse this project? I do. Paraphrasing Thiel, "what happened to the future? We were promised Blackbirds and got the F-35 instead."
Nabokov is absolutely considered a Russian writer by Russians themselves, both lit critics and casual readers.
He wrote 8 novels in Russian and identified himself as both Russian and American and, according to his own words, loved the Russian language most.
If your kid's able and inclined to pay for their own test prep books it's probably better to let them do it. More likely to actually use it that way, I'd guess.
The article now says "Overall, Schaepe paid approximately $630,000 to Singer, via cash and stock donations to a nonprofit foundation Singer ran (which appears to have been a front)."

It's not remotely credible that someone who paid anything like that amount of money just thought there were introductions or whatever going on.

To your other point, all of the schools I've seen listed are decent enough but quite a few are certainly not the most selective of the most selective.
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I grew up in the suburbs in Northern Virginia, Everything is in biking distance, including shopping malls, the Potomac River, all sorts of parks, etc.

Schools in my district require at least 1 parent to be present at the bus stop in the morning and at drop-off time for elementary school kids. Whether or not that's the right way to go about it I don't know, but past that age everyone walks to school/bus stop alone.
> ...if you can't inspect it you can't reasonably trust it.

That is the point the article is making, and that's what it sounds like the Keybase client is doing--not trusting the server by relying on client-side encryption rather than storing keys on the server.

The fact that you can change keys and see old messages without the other party sending them to you using your new key points to serious problems with these other apps. It seems the Keybase client rightly considers the channel insecure.
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Spotify is the reason why I don't pirate music anymore, or at least not nearly as much as I needed to before. I only pirate music in cases where it's not available on Spotify (and that piracy is usually in the form of youtube-dl).
As a data scientist with a BS and MBA, I can attest to having experienced disqualification for jobs specifically because of my lack of a PhD. What's troubling is employers think they need PhDs. It often doesn't matter if I have 10 years experience applying data science in industry, without that PhD companies think I'm unqualified.

From my perspective, the best data scientists strike a balance between technical and business knowledge. And it's the business knowledge that PhDs coming straight from academia often lack.
That's an example of something that can be quickly learned on the job, 1-2 days tops.
An electric conversion of a 1940s led sled is my dream car.
So you mean US shouldn't spend a dime on technology before the last homeless person in SF is rehabilitated?
I don't recall any recent news where marxists have shot up schools or churches, or bombed anyone.

If it were 1920 I'm sure the Marxists would get banned for stirring up terrorism.
Towel – C# library with generic math functions,data structures,units of measure
Steve Bannon was a close friend of Andrew Breitbart (who was Jewish and famously anti-racist), and was hired by Breitbart to be Editor. Bannon greatly expanded the Brietbart Israel office and managed a number of non-whites such as Raheem Kassam, Ben Shapiro, and others, placing them in leading positions.

While I do think Andrew wouldn't approve of what Bannon has done recently (and many of his old colleagues do not), there is no evidence his views have ever gone into "extreme white nationalist" territory.
When white nationalists (neo-nazis) come to power, the rights to free speech and religious expression would be the first things they eliminate.

If we care at all about preserving the basic civil rights that form the foundation of a free democratic society, then we must strangle white nationalism in the cradle.

These nazis cowardly hide behind the right to free speech, which they secretly detest. The fewer platforms they have to disseminate their hate speech and propaganda, the better off we are as a society.

The concept of a free and open debate in the "marketplace of ideas" does not imply all ideas are equally valid or require that we do not exclude dangerous ideology from the being part of legitimate discourse.

We are marching straight toward a second holocaust and protecting the free speech of nazis only accelerates the pace.
To answer your first question, the constitutional response would be "it doesn't". Legally, I'm unaware of any edge cases, except potentially some net neutrality related things. (I'm not very certain about NN.)

My point, however, is that this is neither a legal nor constitutional obligation, but a social and voluntary obligation to a free society.
I am not sure about Google, but when I was at Facebook, any Software Engineer with PhD can opt to use title Research Scientist instead. The purpose is mostly to make Green Card application easier.
I don't doubt something interesting would come up with PayPal, Patreon, and MasterCard.
Does it matter? I don't really see the issue with competing standards if the standards are open: The "best" (for some definition of best) should win out eventually.

Anything other than Electron if it comes to it
There is very little point to memorise things that are easily looked up.
I just swapped sim card since I switched provider, same with my wife and we didn't have any resets.

I have about 15 people on signal an I've seen a reset once or twice maybe in total.
Yes. No. I think yes, but some customers can only pay using Stripe.
Ask HN: Is your work stressful? How do you cope with it?
For example stress due to deadline imposed by management, or any other factors.
Standards bodies exist to publish standards, hard to tell someone to not do what they gain from doing,
You can get a waiver from the NZ censor for having copies of that material if you're a scholar or researcher: https://www.classificationoffice.govt.nz/news/latest-news/ch...

it should be discussed in schools, so students and teachers can explore his breaks in logic and contradictory statements

How about the explicit calls for assassination of specific individuals, among other direct incitements to terrorism?
Curiously, some of those horrors are actually counterexamples to the way we think about these things. For example, the Rwandan Hutus were historically oppressed by the Tutsis as well as European imperialists (who reinforced the dominant position of the Tutsis). Prior to the genocide, it would have been relatively easy to write off Hutu nationalism as sympathetic and understandable while being more concerned with Tutsi nationalism (especially since there were Tutsi militias roaming the countryside.)

Likewise, I don't know about Bosnia, but it would be pretty understandable to sympathize with the Serbian attitude towards Croatia declaring independence from Yugoslavia because the last time Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia, it was to literally collaborate with the Nazis. So Croatian nationalism would have seemed vaguely fascistic and threatening, but Serbian nationalism, not so much.

The reason censorship doesn't actually prevent genocide is because any ideology that's popular enough to actually inspire a genocide is too popular to be censored.
It may not be that. These people live a lifestyle of status symbols over substance. It's important to be seen as having kids with a certain kind of success. They could feel pressured to buy success for their kids as insurance despite feeling their kids are smart.

It could also be that these people got the same sort of help from their own parents. And therefore to them this is just standard behavior divorced from any context of morality or the child's true development.
> Paraphrasing Thiel, "what happened to the future? We were promised Blackbirds and got the F-35 instead."

It's kinda weird how the F-35 just looks somehow dated and like a slob compared to e.g. the older (and cooler looking) F-22. Though perhaps "cool looks" is maybe not the prime factor in fighter jet selection...
I totally agree that 90% of ML problems are engineering problems and having a PhD is not relevant to those cases. My comment was more about the 10%, the more research-oriented parts, which some companies have become very competitive about in the last few years.

> But the amount of tech debt produced by 'scientists' is horrendous.

Absolutely. I've been trying to exit a research-oriented position for the last few months because I want to work with competent engineers again.
A 15 second google shows the top social media sites based off monthly active users. Tell me an equivalent, viable platform to rival Facebook/Instagram that doesn't share the same political values.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/247597/global-traffic-to...
It also went nowhere, stalled in a republican controlled senate by a republican controlled committee.
> can both think their ideas are absurd and at the same time support their right to have those ideas.

We're not talking about having an ability to have an idea, we're talking about responsibly deplatforming hate speech.

> You don't know what kind of fire you are playing with here if your think your position is the rational one and have a good outcome.

I can say the same of you and your naive belief that the fascists will be beaten by triumph, will, and logic.
For some people, it's probably a happy reminder of a time of growth, anticipating a new chapter in their lives.
I've had staff at an unnamed $10B tech company in CA tell me that they 'trusted their system' and that 'the data never lies' after one of their staff members made a process mistake by failing to log some information a few minutes earlier at a support kiosk while we were getting our passes set up. The practical result of the failure, if unremedied, would have been that I was out $3,000 and a week of my life was burned.

What ensued was an hour long debacle with staff yelling at my girlfriend until she broke down crying. She was accused of stealing, defrauding them, ruining the event. It was not pretty to the point that I had to physically restrain a friend of mine from starting an altercation.

I repeatedly, politely, and calmly asked them to speak with the support staff member who handled our issue to see if there was an issue. The manager told me "he's an idiot. His opinion doesn't matter. The computer isn't lying."

Eventually, after a lengthy period of time in which the manager insinuated I was a laundry list of undesirable things, relented. He went to go speak with the staff member and in doing so saw that our passes were literally sitting on his desk in plain view. They hadn't been logged as out of circulation, so our new passes weren't working yet.

He returned, told us he fixed the issue, did not apologize and walked off. A day later the company suffered one of their biggest PR gaffes to date while the manager in question sat in the front row aghast.

Turns out nerds (and I use that term with the greatest affection) can be stupid too.
The problem is that, for a paper or a TV network, control scales. You can pump your network TV signal out twice as many antennas, and still control every frame of video.

For the telephone network, control does not scale. There is no way for the phone company to censor what happens in one billion daily phone calls. It can't be done (until we get adequate speech recognition, but that's not an answer that I want to see applied in this way).

Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are like the phone company, not like newspapers and TV. Censorship does not scale.

Twitter, being text, could think about trying to automate censorship. The problem is that people do all kinds of typos, circumlocutions, innuendo, and dog whistles to get around such things. Words are really flexible, so it's a hard problem.

Facebook and YouTube are worse. They can try to have automatic assists, but pretty much the only way it can be done is via user reporting. Even that doesn't scale all that well.
That seems incredibly arbitrary.

1. a Chinese nationalist can post about China while living in the USA.

2. You don't need institutional power in order to do harm to other people.

3. How do you handle cases where power is evenly split? 60/40? 70/30? Who gets to be racist?
That's a fallacious argument. You could make the same argument about pro-Islamist sentiment (which is all over FB if you know where to look).
President Obama's administration implemented white nationalist policies, as have virtually every presidential administration. I have no qualms saying that, even if I don't believe President Obama is a white nationalist himself.

It's telling, I think, that you made this about the current President and his predecessor, and that your argument that the Muslim ban wasn't really white nationalist is because the Muslim ban was really a... ah yes:

> a middle eastern and certain parts of east african ban

I do not, honestly, think you are arguing in good faith.
I worked with a bunch of a Ph.Ds at Google, and my dad had one. I myself have nothing more than a bachelor's, and no desire to get anything more.

I've heard and observed that the Ph.D teaches you one crucial skill - how to take a vaguely defined research problem that nobody has done before, where you're not even sure that a solution exists, and make tangible, rigorous progress on it. Your actual doctoral topic as a Ph.D student will probably be useless. Most of your coursework is the same as what any master's degree gives you. But the experience that sets you apart from B.S. and M.S. graduates is that of slogging through a dissertation, trying to make an original contribution to knowledge.

There are other ways to develop this skillset. Founding a company does it as well, as does developing a new product from scratch. High-level creative work (eg. writing a novel, getting traction for your band, producing a theatrical performance or radio show) does as well. Companies love to hire candidates from these backgrounds as well, but most don't want to work for someone else. (Interestingly, depression and anxiety might actually be a feature of developing this skillset, not a bug - these two mental disorders are endemic among these fields as well.)

The reason employers get hung up on this is because the economic returns to innovation are at an all-time high these days, and so developing that blockbuster new product or highly-efficient new process makes a lot of money. And part of the reason returns to innovation are so high is because so few people are actually innovating. While there certainly exist people with just a bachelors or even no degree at all who are capable of innovating, a large number of bachelor's holders do not have the toolset or mental fortitude to break out beyond what everybody else knows and create new knowledge.
Censoring them confirms their narrative and only makes young white men who've been exposed to their rhetoric pay closer attention.
That is true. There are some I never edit as long as they continue to work. Others I am continuously editing on a regular basis. Others are really "one-offs" that I keep just in case. If I need them again in the future, I might rewrite from scratch if my learning has changed significantly since the last edit.

I have found the best thing I can do for the "future me" is to keep programs relatively small and keep the number of files low. This is one reason I like terseness and the idea of keeping "everything" (almost) on one page/screen.

I am just not capable of understanding a large project as deeply as I would like. I thought this paragraph summarises the issue well:

"To them, once you've sufficiently studied that screen or two of code, you can understand all of it at the same time. If it's spread out over thousands of files, it's very difficult to understand all of it, which leads to bugs, unnecessary abstraction, and the need for advanced tooling just to work with your own project's code."

This is from https://github.com/tlack/b-decoded
Censorship is evil, facebook sucks, whats new
Copycat violence is a thing, when you offer people to make a political statement and then get immortalized, history has proven that people will take you up on that.

Secondly regarding the most recent NZ manifesto, it isn't a well argued thesis as much as a dump of memes and shitposting.
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Giving a child responsibility is the opposite route of buying their way through life. Maybe the parents thought it would have a good effect.
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So, for me, I want to listen to good music, but I don't want to curate a collection. I certainly don't want to deal with the hard parts of starting a collection where I have to buy a bunch of albums at once to have variety; I also don't care to do the work of finding new things to listen to.

I want a radio experience, where some nice person somewhere else (or an algorithm, whatever) picks music for me. Bonus points if they don't come on after every song to tell me all about whatever. I'm not worried about the cost or inconvenience of using cellular data services to stream music, that's the primary reason I have a data plan.

I use a curated streaming service, but I can see the appeal of Spotify, because thanks to the mandatory licensing regime, they can literally stream any released music in a radio context; and having access to everything is amazing. When Launchcast was a thing, it's recommendation engine was pretty great, although they lacked depth in the genre's I want to listen to; I strongly suspect Spotify does too.
It's a success because he considers it to be one. Also he's earning more money from his music on Spotify than he was through other means.

He explicitly says he's not trying to earn a living from it.

> Of course that’s not enough to support a full-time artist but that’s not what I’m trying to be. I don't tour, I don't sell merch and I'm not on a label. I just want to make music and Spotify is making that possible.