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On the topic of votes.

At the time of this writing the comment I’m responding to is grayed out. Presumably due to downvotes from people not agreeing with the sentiment.

I probably don’t agree to it either, but I find the perspective brought into the discussion to be a good contribution.

I see this quite often, and actually tend to spend most of my votes “rescuing” comments, that at least shouldn’t be suppressed just for being unpopular.

There is a kind of bias at play where dissenting opinions are held to a much higher standard of quality and thus having a higher chance for being censored.

So I’ve been thinking if there should be a separation of quality and sentiment votes. Perhaps it would prevent some accidental censoring.

Writing this it occurs to me that the bias would probably still be there though. So a more qualitative approach perhaps. One could imagine some mechanism by which the poster is allowed to iterate on the comment, based on feedback, before final judgement.
Depends if the law says currently registered users or historically registered users.
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I run a lot of websites, and this is exactly what I would do.

I'd probably keep the content but orphan it and kill the underlying user and profile.
Can you develop and test iOS apps on it?
DuckDuckGo have switched to Apple Maps as their mapping solution.
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there used to be a thing called usb condom https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usb+condom&atb=v119-3__&ia=web

to cut data lines altogether IIRC

I guess we need a new kind of condom with all lines protected for surges

ps: there are also these https://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/CN/usb+isolation+modul...
> Interesting new phenomenon.

I feel like usb-killer attacks in the wild is interesting and new enough to warrant a post here.
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>both the locals and the UK have an interest into maintaining a degree of ambiguity in current arrangements.

Interesting take on overseas territories. Fuzzy sure, but it never occurred to me that it's intentional
not sure why they don't release it, it's been a few years already
It’s completely unclear and ridiculous. There are some people on wikipedia atm that try to figure out how wikipedia could possibly comply and what it means: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Liberaler_Humanist/...
I wonder what will happen if somebody motivates a lot of people to register on a site, to push them over the threshold.

It may also be possible to split your forums to different sites / domains if you reach the thresold.

Anyhow I can't see how this will play out in real life and I hope our president will step in and prevent it from happening at all.
The hint is in his complaints: he probably lobbied Cisco for budget to have a Big Rewrite and they said no. So he upped sticks and did it elsewhere.

Are you proud of your code from 20 years ago? He probably wasn’t either.
Haha no but that's actually a solid idea. I've been freelancing lately but if I ever go back Ima need some material so thanks!
Instead of:

sig {params(name: String).returns(Integer)}

... why not simply:

sig {name: String, returns: Integer}
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Do you have any evidence that Apple harvests data stored on Macs and shares it with third parties? If so, that would be big news given Apple's stance on security and privacy.
Those ppm values are approx. 1000x lower than earth's crust.
>It feels like the system is hiding information from me that I would find interesting

Sometimes the behavioral impact matter more than full transparency. I definitely think it contributes to HN being higher quality than reddit for example. People say things for the sake of it not to gather 100 meme points
That highly depends on the jurisdiction you're operating in / selling to.

While I'm not aware if anybody has ever been convicted for weirdly defined laws like that we for example have a "hacking paragraph" in Germany that outlaws software for the sole purpose of computer crimes. I'd imagine the UK has similar legal areas in lieu of their recent "kitchen knives are dangerous weapons, sometimes" controversy. It's not that hard to imagine somebody going after the manufacturer of such hardware and that blurb (or the ever famous "for educational purposes only") give them something to reasonably distance themselves from a user's actions.
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In case anyone wants to know how this should work, this is the explanation by the minister:

There are "technical possibilities where software can run on the backend that can immediately identify: Does the registered mobile phone number match the name and address or not?" - derstandard.at/2000101678440/Minister-Bluemels-Ominous-De-Anonymization-Software
(from https://derstandard.at/2000101678440/Minister-Bluemels-Omino...)

Translating it as "backend" is very friendly as he literally said "a software in the rear end".
I doubt it solves any problems. The right wing parties just want to have more leverage for message control. A platform under the proposed law has to share the identity of an individual if another party wants to sue them for libel as an example. A think the FPOe does regularly.
I loved Season One. It had something to say.

At the time a lot of people were upset about the Lorca reveal. That he wasn't evil enough, seemed to appreciate the non-human crew members instead of being openly evilm etc, etc. That argument struck me as soft-headed. The really insidious thing about prejudice is that it isn't always open or nakedly vitriolic (I'm sure Lorca could have "a lot of Kelpien friends"). It scary to think that the people in charge don't necessarily have our best interests at heart but can still be seen as "likable" or "leadership material". In Season One you were encouraged to look for the cracks and it felt like the best of Star Trek.

It never made it to screen but Mirror Lorca actually destroyed the Buran after the crew discovered that he was from the Mirror Universe. The way Lorca just blinked uncomprehendingly after Burnham said something to the effect of: "You didn't have to do this, we would have helped you get home. It's who we [Starfleet] are." was brilliant. I see this all the time, people to skulking around or trying be manipulative when they could have just stated their case plainly and asked for help.

Season One wasn't perfect and I loved a lot of Season Two (the cast is great and Pike is easily my favorite captain) but Season Two didn't have much to say about our times. Control (a rampaging AI of our own creation) was dumped into our laps mid-season. Instead of getting a meditation on the modern angst surrounding AI, we got a splashy time-travel story with an "Armin Tamzarian" ending: "Let us never speak of this again."

Star Trek was meaningful to me as a kid. Not in the "I want to go to conventions and read books about how EPS conduits work" nonsense kind of meaningful. Meaningful in the "tiny Mike likes his morality plays" kind of way. I want a series to say something more than I want it to fit into canon.
I also saw russias recent video of their new insane weaponry. I don't have the long term scope on this section of the news, is this just routine flexing on both parts or is something more serious going on?
Sound like the Zeitgeist movie.
Be still my beating heart.

I misread this as for Australia and while I wouldn't put this past the current right-wing government they are coming into an election.

But it's for Austria.....so....while I'm not affected I'm still annoyed.
So distributed social media communities like Mastodon will not have the problem?
I agree with this sentiment. I like the type checking in Crystal, and it is pretty much the newer, younger brother to Ruby. I don't see the issue of leaving Ruby pretty much 'as is' so that legacy code does not break, and focus on making Crystal a much better evolution of Ruby.
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Disputes within anarcho-capitalism are easily resolved. Don't pay me what I'm worth? I won't work for you. Don't have what I want? I won't trade you for it.

Sure our ability to mitigate things like physical violence tends to benefit greatly from collectivizing interests, and at that point a distinction from a state is a blurry concept, but that is a problem that simply exists in any system.

Consensual transactions between individuals, however, are enough to provide an unbelievably stable society, without any need for central authority. Enforcement of the integrity of contracts can be enforced by the integrity and reputation of the individuals involved in a transaction. The fact that I continue to be employable, for example, is on the basis of my capabilities and reputation, and the degree to which I engage in behaviors contrary to my own positive perception would negatively impact my ability to continue transacting in good faith with others. At no point is a central authority or mandate a necessary component in the primary dynamics of these relations.
How would you write the type of a function that takes a parameter called `returns`?
I believe it's fine to hide this information if the algorithm to rank posts is obvious and easy to reason about. For example, you know on Hacker News that the top posts are the ones with the most votes. More detail doesn't give much more information.

But Instagram is like an Ocean of content, there is no clear boundaries between topics, it's an endless stream of content and events happening in parallel, AND the algorithms are known to be opaque. So the information of number of Likes are valuable to relate to other events which happened in the past. This also applies to Twitter.

By the way, we can see the total votes on the front page of Hacker News, because it helps to put things in perspective according to past events.

Instagram should hide the numbers of like in messages in the discussion of picture, but IMHO they should keep at least the order of magnitude of Likes under the pictures. ("10s Likes", "100s Likes", "1k Likes", etc)
It's hardly unstoppable its been there for literally decades. Common lisp had it for a very long time for example and has a few compiler implementations that are really quite sophisticated.

The problem is that most popular dynamic languages are really quite terrible. They have atrocious runtime environments and usually quite limiting language semantics.
I imagine sensible website operators would limit signups to below the threshold, so they don't run the risk of legislation unexpectedly applying. Otherwise it also becomes an avenue for malicious actors.
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Define 'those'.
With types you get more compile-time checks - safer code, better documentation, and the possibility to improve runtime performance and ffi.
With a guaranteed int you don't need to check for bignum overflows, and you can avoid all runtime type checks. A typed ffi struct can be used as is for the ffi, raw data. strings are guaranteed to be 0 delimited.

In certain basic blocks typed ints or floats can be unboxed, if they will not escape. This is what php7 made 2x faster. the stack will get much leaner. simple arithmetic ops can be inlined, using native variants. ops with typed vars cannot be overridden.
It should. I believe you should pay more if you have unhealthy life style. First implement a good universal health care, second make people making the wrong choices (smoking is a wrong choice, being old is not) pay more.
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I wonder how much of all uber investment is actually an investment in self driving cars, and uber's ability to get a big piece of that.

Uber's q4 revenue was $3bn ($1bn loss)

Lets say they triple revenue to $40bn pa in 10 years, while growing into profitability... call it 10% profit margin over the 10 yr period... it'd be impressive, considering margin is currently negative 30%.^

That makes <$30bn profit in 10 years. Uber's IPO valuation is estimated around $100bn.

In any case, lets also say you believe L5 self driving will be rolling out by 2030. Uber seems to. At this point, the current business model (uber of driving) starts declining. Self driving is the only obvious replacement.

You really need to expect very big things from uber in the self driving space. If self driving is coming, there isn't time to make money from the current business model. If it isn't, uber is betting on the wrong things.

^You could assume even faster growth but given their current losses, size limitations, etc... it starts getting beyond optimism to expect any profit. This isn't google or fb. Uber have competition.
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As a young man, I grabbed a 6146B tube before it discharged. I felt fine, until the pain started.
The article states a number of laws this proposition is most likely to conflict with. I very much doubt it will hold in court, and certainly someone will sue. I guess it won't even land at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

But even if I'm right, it still damages the public discussion on privacy and civil rights. It is one of many steps pulling public opinion in a frightening direction.
Sorry to hear about the latter, please give yoga, chanting aum, meditation and vegetarnism a go, seriously google the gut brain axis, it might help.
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Using the term "facebook life" demonstrates a certain mentality
You forget this is ruby, which will not have a competent JIT. They have such a bad JIT with enormous overhead that only very special cases will be faster, most cases are slower and will wait for locks or be racy.
That's wrong. Anarchists would argue that a computer, for instance, only becomes capital under the conditions which capital in general tends to subsume things which can increase its value. Capital arises in the process of circulation only, and circulation is inextricably linked with production (as Marx proved by refuting Say in the first book of the Grundrisse). For instance, non-scarce goods (like digital goods or books) only became capital with the advent of copyright law. The computer I'm writing this on, as Marx would say, is only potentially capital. I don't buy the idea that Dunbar's number of 150 makes very much sense when we can also talk about federation and the idea of communes.
It will fail.
Well there is the use case of the PO exercising his or her judgement in a situation where there may technically be a violation, e.g. carrying an open bottle of beer. Today, a PO can simply require the perpetrator to discard the beer and then both parties move on.

If we have cameras in that situation, the PO will have no choice but to issue a summons to the person and then potentially have to show up in court if the person requests it.

Is that the best use of our police officers and the courts time? I think your intention is to provide citizens protection against police abuse of our rights but I think that the situation is more complex and getting the right mix of tech and humanity in police practices requires better training and education of both the police and the citizenry.
I like body cams, video of all interactions with police (compare to the FBI refusing to record interviews because they believe handwritten notes are better), and similar ideas. But, at least with body cams, there are some questions with the point of view they end up presenting: https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/body-cams-i... .
If it works out, and there's no public outcry, they'll just reduce the limit to 10k after a while.
Types are massively helpful with JavaScript. I’ll never write untyped JS again if I can help it. Switching to typescript has done wonders for my productivity and code quality.
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You're not wrong about physics but I'd say the degree in software is only as good as your ability to code mixed with how willing you are to follow over controlling bosses.
There's evidence that they were a reckless team. There's no evidence that they are a reckless team.
Everyone I know who has worked remote has had their tools supplied by the company or has been reimbursed for purchasing them on behalf of the company.
Censoring the internet is a popular topic among all center parties in Europe. For example "Hate-speech" censorship, where the end justifies the means, is popular among many left leaning parties.

Isn't the proposal from an ÖVP minister? Does the ÖVP not qualify as center-right?
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I guess not, since there is no single entity/company which holds 100.000 users.

But I am 100% sure, our current government would never ever grasp the concept of a federated social network and probably just try to ban it.
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Check the language report from Mesa/Cedar, which used reference counting with a cycle collector, already back then they weren't that inspiring.

The fact that the language designers switched to tracing GC on their further work, namely Modula-2+ and Modula-3. Or that Wirth after his 2nd sabbatical year at Xerox PARC decided for tracing GC on his system programming languages, Finally Microsoft own research, also using tracing GCs.

All in all quite telling, where they seen performance gains to be held.

Swift's approach makes sense from Objective-C compatibility point of view. Which also made sense given the failure to add a tracing GC while keeping the underlying C semantics.

From performance point of view not so much.

Having a tracing GC doesn't remove the possibility to have stack allocations, even when they look like heap ones, implement pools or whatever.

Unfortunately Java's approach of not having the same type system as older GC enabled systems programming languages created a bad picture of what is actually available out there.
If we suddenly have a rash of police under enforcing, is that really a problem? Body cameras aren’t there to ensure police enforce the law, they’re there because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
So not to be a cynic here, but from the outside (EU) it looks kinda like there is merit to the presidents claims of this investigation being a with hunt and what not.

The media also blew this so out of proportion that I was more or less stunned by the fact that there wasn't an impeachment at the end.

Whatever you think of Trump if he really didn't collude then the media have some internal retrospecive to do, I think.
>it is effectively synonymous with "free exchange of time or resources among consenting transactors."

No. Both economists (even "bourgeois" ones) and sociologists disagree with this as a definition of capitalism. Please read up on the history of capitalism, which is a specific mode of production which arose in Western Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. People were freely exchanging and consenting to transactions before the advent of capitalism.

>The best way to conceptualize capitalism is as an infinite number of procedural states instantiated between consenting individuals.

Why would it be the "best way"? In fact, it seems like a very strongly ideological way which starts by conceiving society as merely an accumulation of individuals who then begin networking, rather than individuals which arise out of an already networked society. This is wonderfully convenient for the subjectivist-individualist viewpoint. On the point of consent, simply because one consents it does not mean that what is happening is morally right - indeed many slaves consented. Frederic Lordon in Marx and Spinoza on Desire elaborates the meaninglessness of consent when it comes to what we need to live and survive.

>If a group of individuals decide that they'd like to collectivize their incentives and work on a commune together

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the plight of the anarchists - not only is it an individualized situation which could not possibly extend to everyone, but it also insists that localised groups must still engage in the system of capital accumulation, at the very least to pay taxes. In anarcho-capitalist society they'd probably have to pay to rent land too.

>It just turns out that the people that choose to as "anarchist" tend to like quite a bit of rules.

Rules are not rulers.
From the people I've spoken to about this, I'd say less than half even know that the 737Max is a thing, never mind that it's crashed twice.
I think that is a bit extreme but I agree with one thing. If school does not teach job related knowledge but it somehow makes it easier to learn skills on the job later on then isn't it actually just an indirect measure of motivation or intelligence?

The advantage formal education confers is merely making those stand out among the other applicants.
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I think the wrong words were chosen by the parent. For many decades politics in Europe were dominated by traditional globalist governments, which I would describe as "centrist". For many people those governments are failing and voters are moving to the left and the right, depending on the country of course.

Centrist governments are trying to use "hate speech" laws as a way of curbing their loss of control of the media; before they could control the newspapers and the telly and therefore they could control dialogue, now with social networks that's not that easy. We are seeing that with some stories, such as rapes in Sweden and all of that. They could simply tell their friends in TV networks not to talk about it. Problem solved. That doesn't work anymore. So they need the law.

In Germany and Austria for example you need to put your real name and address in a visible part of your website known as the Impressum. What's a better way to make sure you keep your opinions under control and your head low?
I have a similar problem which is ruining my life. Not only I cannot focus on my work, I cannot focus on anything. I'm throwing my degree and my life down the toilet.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel right now. It's the worst feeling I've ever experienced. I know what I should do but I can't.
I too would like to see an experiment with two types of votes (agree/disagree and quality/shitpost), but I don't think there's a big problem here. Things balance out in the end. Some people instinctively downvote things they disagree with, other upvote posts for quality regardless of their personal position on the topic; some, like you, rescue comments. Things can be in flux initially, but within couple of hours they stabilize, and the outcome is decent enough. The key thing is not treating karma points and "black/grey" instability personally; it's just the mechanism at work.
You can install a plain AOSP and have (almost[1]) full control over your phone though.

[1] almost, because every smartphone needs proprietary drivers to run …
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I expect a split between very strictly coded and strongly typed everywhere libraries and shared components, and looser high level scripts mix and matching when convenient.

That could be the best of both worlds.
Can anyone recommend a decent fountain pen that’s easily available and affordable (USD 100 - 200)? All I usually see are vintage pens that are only available through specialist dealers. Surely somebody today must be making a pen that’s good enough?
correct the FPÖ is in fact the continuation of the Nazi government and was founded by former Nazis (VDU)[1].

The FPÖ used to be mostly a problem of in Carinthia, where the party was infamous for it's beerfests crawling with skinheads.

You might love the place as a tourist, but if you're an immigrant (even born there) and especially Turkish/Muslim (or simply have a different accent), then living in Austria is no fun.

[1] (in German sorry): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiheitliche_Partei_%C3%96ste...
I misread as Australia too.