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> remember that during the early 2010s, Islamic radicals were getting radicalized on YouTube by pretty benign sermons

Yet I am reading every day now about how "hate speech" has to be banned from Youtube, but I almost never hear Islamic radicals cited as an example. Most vividly discussed usually is some spat between a left-wing loudmouth and a right-wing loudmouth (usually both Americans of course, because that's where all the world's problems are, shut up Al Qaeda, ISIS and Taliban, you are all JV team compared to a rich American youtuber that says hurtful things about a rich American media personality), and usually the latter gets all passes in the world for calling for actual physical violence, and the former gets banned.

> and I think Muslims getting radicalized on YouTube plummeted.

You think that based on what data? What about Muslims radicalized not on YouTube? If they are just radicalized in other places, but in the same way and the same numbers, what's the point?

> White supremacy is a much bigger deal with a worse tail risk than Islamic extremism.

What you mean by "white supremacy"? If you mean actual people that think White race (whatever the hell that is) is supreme and are willing to take action to ensure its power - it is demonstrably false, the number of these people are tiny, and they could never pull off even one hundredth of what ISIS has been pulling off for years. In fact, every manifestation they do draws like 10x more counter protesters. The only power they have is the press attention they get because they are useful to agenda-pushers as a scary monster that can justify giving more control over the speech to the government or megacorps.

OTOH, many people use "white supremacy" as synonymous to "Western culture" (I even saw presentation calling things like logical reasoning, competitiveness and insistence on keeping schedule being signs of "white supremacy"). In this case, it is a bigger deal that Islamic extremism, that is true. It is huge, strong and achieved much, though of course its history, like most of cultures, is filled both with heroic achievements and disgusting atrocities.

> Don’t see why anyone would object to removal of Neo nazi content yet go along with the removal of wahabi sermons.

One could maybe justify removal of the content calling for direct violent action. Otherwise, I do not see why a Muslim sermon calling for hating infidels is worse than a sermon from a Congress member calling for attacking and publicly harassing members of the opposing party. Both are despicable, but then let's start banning Congress members too - why should they get a free pass?
That's a pretty dramatic assertion - in the field of hateful things, you'd have to be pretty extreme to qualify as "some of the most hateful". What do you have in mind?
Often those switches are connected to multiple led bulbs, which can be 65w for a room.
I think Germany could have probably managed some form of German-supremacist propaganda, instead of Aryan. It might have even worked better strategically if they managed to avoid driving away / killing a large portion of their engineers and scientists.
Which one what? I don't use Linux...

% uname -a

FreeBSD redacted 12.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE r341666 GENERIC amd64
How about just force-delivering a rake with free return?
> It looks like a closed edge biplane when it transitions.. the closed edges help efficiency

Perhaps. It could also be mostly to stabilize the aircraft in forward flight, since that's more efficient by itself with a "pulling" rotor than a traditional quad-copter setup (using differential thrust from each motor to control movement and stability).

The closed wing doesn't look very large, so we'll have to see just how much lift they actually get out of it. The airfoil design may not generate much or any lift but instead just be used for control, such as a typical horizontal/vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.

Or perhaps it does generate some lift and helps a bit. Just looks rather small for that role, but I could be wrong. RC aircraft often defy principles that apply to their full-sized brethren.

> (FTA): Amazon declined to release some specifics on the device, citing trade secrets

I guess we'll just have to wait for some more specifics.
A Crash in Unsquashfs
Yeah, that OPM hack was greaaaaaaat....
I believe you are confusing a "creole" with a "pidgin".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin

> pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages. It is most commonly employed in situations such as trade, or where both groups speak languages different from the language of the country in which they reside (but where there is no common language between the groups). Fundamentally, a pidgin is a simplified means of linguistic communication, as it is constructed impromptu, or by convention, between individuals or groups of people. A pidgin is not the native language of any speech community, but is instead learned as a second language
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Wow! I'm really impressed. One thing that might help is to require formal verification of code marked as "unsafe" to ensure memory safety (or simply to replace unsafe code in the standard library with safe-but-slower code, e.g. by having a version of the standard library where the get_unchecked() method actually does perform bounds checks).
Having any kind of 'secondary address' doesn't matter. Nobody is saying anything about selling a house. There are many, many people who own multiple residences. That's not what matters here.

All that matter is what your actual cost of living is (measured by proxy via where you actually live) versus what you tell GitLab your cost of living is (measured by proxy via where you say you live (regardless of if its your primary address or a secondary address or whatever)). If you knowingly tell GitLab that your COL is higher than it actually is so that GitLab gives you higher pay, that is the very definition of fraud.

> What if the employee does not have a fixed address? ... Is their pay adjusted for each city they drive their van to?

Yes, it is adjusted by each new place's COL. GitLab details this out in their compensation handbook, if you're really interested.

> What if that person's fixed address is already registered at some organisation or mail center in a "high pay area"? Should they be required to change it to a "low pay area" to be ethical?

They should tell GitLab that they do not actually live in the high COL area and should be paid accordingly to the low COL area.

I think you're getting hung up on some sort of strict 'legal address' definition. In this discussion about compensation, I don't think GitLab gives a damn what your "legal address" is or where you get your mail delivered to. They care about your actual cost of living, and they use an address as a convenient way to measure that. If your actual cost of living doesn't match where your 'legal address' is or where you get your mail delivered, you would simply tell them "My legal address is X, but I actually live in Y".
I'm doing just that (using a bike that costs a third as much), and I'm really happy to have saved like $1500. All you need is any decent bike ($200-$600), a bluetooth cadence and heart rate sensor ($70), plus their cheaper $20/mo app and you get most of the experience at a reasonable cost. I don't get the output number and can't compete on the leaderboard, but that's fine. If they keep supporting things non-Peloton bikes like this, I can see them making a ton of money. I wouldn't be surprised to see an entry level bike in the next year or two.

I personally love the music (classic rock and EDM for most of my classes) but that's personal preference, and haven't had any issue with video stream.
Here is a well respected source on this https://www.ethnologue.com/country/IN
So unilaterally imposing tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada, and possibly EU, instead of using the WTO or working with America's allies (TPP), is a best way of making China play fair?
this is coming, if not already here, from satellites anyway
New and Improved Skafos for Mobile ML Model Delivery
Coming from a systems/DSP background, Rust feels at times "higher level" than C/C++ (especially w.r.t. the crates ecosystem, although I suspect a large part of that is its youth and general instability), but mostly akin to writing C-with-classes-style C++ with static analysis baked into your build script.

The "high level" stuff baked into Rust makes it great for "low level" tasks, notably imo:

- Tests (and micro benchmarks, with nightly) alongside code, without dependencies or build system hackery.

- An incredibly powerful macro system, supplanting a lot of the templated code generation I've done in C++ which is a nightmare. Not that proc macros are perfect (yet) but at least they're legible.

- If you've ever tried to do away with dynamic dispatch via templates in place of inheritance, then Rust's generics with trait bounds are an absolute godsend

- A gosh darn dependency solution (now with custom repositories on stable!) makes dependency hell is less hellish
You're right that some industries have become less hospitable to shy people. But frankly I've always seen tech as a high-effort/high-payoff sort of industry. Where, even if that meritocratic ideal is far from realized in practice, it's still a large factor in why many people are in the industry. They plan on working as hard as they can to get the best payout they can. This is an inherently competitive environment, which consequently will tend to be hostile to introverts.

That's not to say an introvert can't do well in the industry. But if the individual in question is hyper-competitive in addition to being shy, they're probably going to hate the experience. The trait of hyper-competitiveness does not sit well with shyness.
Wait, this guy's family name is seriously Kimchi? The drone is cool but learning Kimchi is a surname is blowing my mind
This is not WWII anymore. An open war between two nuclear powers like the US and China would be the end of the world as we know it. This would not be a win to the US or to anyone else. Moreover the Chinese are not pushing for war in any way.
Worst case, Trump has 1.5 or 5.5 years left in office, depending on if he is re-elected. (He could also die in office) The next president will change things. I can't tell you what, it could be a small change, it could be big.
Authorities investigating claim that Baltimore ransomware group leaked docs
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
I think the article might be looking at this from the wrong direction. It's making a straw-man argument by taking a bunch of the advantages of remote work and saying that everyone should do it. It's ignoring the downsides of remote work (i.e. social isolation, communication hurdles).

It's possible there is a Darwinian effect going on. If remote-first companies are at such a competitive advantage, why aren't there more of them? I don't have a reason, but the lack of remote-first companies suggests that they are at a competitive disadvantage that is preventing them from proliferating or scaling. It's possible that due to underlying psychological factors, most humans are more productive when working face-to-face with other people in an office.
The responses I've gotten on my reports show me that Apple certainly reads them. And when the bugs are annoying, if I can spend 5 minutes sending a report that'll help them be aware of and then fix the bug, it's so worth it to me.
Yeah, but if I have enough money/income (which is a big caveat, I know) then I can have some control over the location of the UPS truck by virtue of living someplace not too close to a road.

When was the last time a UPS truck drove over your house / apartment / etc?
Its funny I was just reading Timmy Mallett, who was a morning TV host during the early-90's, tweet that his mum was Stagg's secretary during this time, ad witnessed the decision to go -

https://twitter.com/TimmyMallett/status/1136194279439831041

Another Timmy Mallett footnote is Mike Myers got his break on TV doing sketches on Timmy's saturday morning show
"I learned how alt-coin mining works, first-hand" could easily be seen as a worthwhile experience.
This smells like propaganda...
I never said they didn't have rules.

And re your edit, it's not a clarification it's a redefinition and that's what scares people.
Correction: Anything that can be reasonably argued to make a layperson believe that it has the potential to make advertisers leave.
So they're doubling down on the policies that have earned them an anti-trust investigation? This is alarmingly stupid.
For almost all of human history, sharing and persisting information had a pretty high cost. To get something into someone else's head, first you had to verbally tell them. Then you could at least write it once and have it read multiple times. That written work persisted over time longer too, though it required scribes to manually copy them periodically to broadcast it farther.

During all of that time, driving the cost to persist and broadcast information down has been a good thing. The cheaper the better, because it gives more brains access to useful information. I think because of that, we assumed the ideal cost is zero.

In the past several years, I believe we are slowly, painfully, realizing that we were wrong. The web has driven that cost down to practically zero. Any rando can write anything and it will be served on the web to all and sundry in perpetuity.

The problem with that is that it makes it equally easy to broadcast mis-information. What humans need to prosper is access to good information — true facts and useful ideas. Information that helps us take actions that help people.

When there's a non-zero maintainance cost for info, someone has to periodically choose to pay that cost. The scribe has to decide what book to copy. The printer has to decide which pamphlets to re-print. The public access channel has to decide which shows to schedule.

If someone can't be motivated to care about some piece of information enough to do that, it naturally decays and disappears. Like evolution, there's a natural selection process where some memes die. Now, granted, even with a non-zero cost, bad or misinformed actors may choose to further bad information. But I think that happens way more often when the cost to doing so is nil.

So, when you have a non-zero cost, it encourages a certain amount of selection where useful information tends to last longer. At the same time, you don't want the cost too high. When that happens, only the powerful are able to decide what information persists and they choose only information that furthers their own power. Driving the cost down has been, I think, one of the major engines of democracy.

But I do think we've overshot the mark now. In the next several years, it's going to be up to us as a culture to figure out how to effectively deal with the hurricane of misinformation constantly roaring around us. It is, I think, the biggest threat facing human society today.

(You might argue that climate change is a bigger threat. But note that a primary reason we're failing to take sufficient action on climate change is because of misinformation.)
That is what yandex does, but unofficially.
I think it falls under conspiracy theory because some people might think that the government has covered up any knowledge of Bigfoot similar to aliens.
Eternal September of the Corporate Open Source Project
That piano soundtrack was extra creepy. All I can imagine was Bezos weird face :/
Ask HN: What Firefox add-ons do you use?
For web development or just general use, what add-ons are you using?
>I needed many implementations of some base type, the kind of pattern that lends itself well to classes and simple inheritance.

Inheritance is an anti-pattern, you can accomplish the same with composition.

>you're going to need a dynamically allocating array or hashmap of a specific type, and your choices are either going to be void or some macro thing that makes your eyes cross.

I don't understand, why would you need a *void for a specific type? If you meant heterogeneous types, you can use a typedef union.
Cue Tesla critics.
Or. Life is a by-product or at least a beneficiary of all that crap (i.e., what doesn't kill you makes you strong). That is, just because a planet can sustain life doesn't mean that planet's history would generate life.

There may be a gazillion earth-like planets, but that doesn't mean life is possible on that attribute alone.
Remote isn't flawless. A/V systems are still plagued with issues, tons of people don't have the discipline required, even more people don't live in an environment that allows it (eg: having proper office space), lots of people have family a t home that will not respect their work time, etc.

It has plenty of benefits of course, and I can absolutely see how someone can make the argument that the above is a small price to pay for the benefits. They may not be wrong, either. But you have a way of working that has been the norm since the dawn of time, and you have a new way that is still debatable if it's worth it, and the obvious reaction for many is to keep the statue quo.

And then there's just preferences. My current company is making a big shift to allow more remote work. Many people, myself included, don't work well in that environment. We're adapting, but if a situation happened and I ended up leaving my current job, I'd actively seek another office-first company.
I like C, but you definitely don’t “get what you wrote” in any meaningful way. You absolutely have to understand all sorts of nuance about undefined behavior, the size of primitives on various architectures, etc. I’m not advocating for C++, but pointing out that C is far more error prone and surprising than many HLLs. And this doesn’t touch on the regular error prone things about C, like memory management, array indexing, etc.
Amazing. What is the energy of the system while it's in transition? I guess they're arguing superposition of 1 and 0, continuously sliding to a higher likelihood with time. I mean, eventually a photon is emitted, and that can't be continuous. I guess I'll have to read the preprint.
Google Appeals $1.7BN EU AdSense Antitrust Fine
Safari Technology Preview 84, with Safari 13 Features, Is Now Available
Farts for Freedom
There's a reason why it's taking so long for Amazon to get FAA approval for drone delivery and this is exactly why. There are people in important places asking these sorts of questions already.

My guess personally, is that drone delivery will ultimately just be a tool for a self driving truck to get the package from the truck to the door. Drones are not nearly good enough as it stands today to do end to end deliveries at an industrial scale outside of maybe a few rural areas.
How doesn't it follow? If anything they don't approve of is removed then things they don't remove they must approve.
* 1password

* Multi Account Containers

* Redux DevTools
I don't get the reference, would you mind explaining? On a related note, I've always been baffled by Coursera founder & ML fame Andrew Ng's name. How am I supposed to pronounced it?
My first thought was "well, maybe you do need a rake". But I guess it probably can't see into your shed/garage/etc to know whether you actually have a rake or not. Ads for things you already have are such a waste.
LIDAR provides an additional layer of safety that seems well worth the marginal cost for those producing self-driving cars, where human lives are at stake, even if not applicable to delivery drones.

Do you believe that the future is LIDAR-less, or that the delivery drone future is LIDAR-less?
I think the actual problem is there are too many people who want to travel to specific places. Like, there are only a limited number of very touristic sites that everyone wants to go to, yet plenty of other lesser known sites exist and provide a better experience if you do your research and learn about them. Like, I live in Paris and have set foot exactly once (1) on the Eiffel tower. Likewise, there are hundreds of museums but people only ever go to the Louvre (and maybe Orsay). I get that they're iconic but come on, there's plenty of other stuff to do here.
Avatar: The Last Airbender only get better up to and including the end.
An increase in censorship is very frequently good.

Consider a discussion forum that never banned any users or removed any spam. It quickly becomes very difficult to have a meaningful discussion when a third of the posts are "CHEEP ROLE X bUY NOW" and another third are racial hatred.
For people who grew up before the Internet, the idea of needing to share everything with everyone you know isn't a necessity. Some things were better before the Internet. My real-world social life improved after I left Facebook. The quality of the information that enters my mind on a daily basis also improved. I don't read timelines or experience life by constantly thinking about whether I should post the current moment online. There are other ways to stay in touch with people.

I recommend Digital Minimalism.

http://www.calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/
Where is the bigfoot skeleton?

Physical evidence is king when someone proposes something seemingly fantastic.

With (almost) everyone carrying a camera in their pocket these days one would expect to see new Bigfoot recordings posted weekly.

We have found that indeed blacks do get shot more often in police confrontations than whites.

But UFOs? Bigfoot?

Not so much.
Earthroamer LTS
As a web dev, Chrome has better PWA support in the developer console. Lighthouse audits are also quite useful. Although Firefox's developer console is pretty good (and similar to Chrome's), then at the moment Chrome is a bit better.

I mostly use Firefox, both for browsing and development, but occasionally fire up Chrome, especially for the features mentioned above.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20107508 and marked it off-topic.
Sometimes I wonder if it would be easier if we just start anew. I cant go back and change every single password with that email address that I didn't use KeyChain before.
I got an off-warranty Dell Precision from a previous employer. They were cheap and ordere them with the lowest Xeon CPU at the time, so I spent $100 on RAM/CPU to max it out. 6 sticks of 4GB DDR3 and whatever the Xeon equivalant to the i7-950 was, and threw a couple leftover 2TB HD's in there.

Made a great server. But for a workstation it wasn't really that snappy and I just ended up using a 2016 MacBook Pro.
What makes you think "most of America" (or even most of NYC) experiences this?
Is the "someone" positioning their property as "a place for people to say stuff, generally speaking" and promoting it that way?

There is established case law and legislation in the US, though pretty variable by state in terms of details, that people can in fact have free speech rights on private property when the private property de-facto functions as a public square. The devil is, as usual, in the details, and the details are, as usual, not time-invariant here.
Black Lives Matter literally exists to highlight disproportionate police violence against people of color;

not only are they not calling for expelling whites (the "reverse" of what a lot of white nationalists call for), what they are asking for is that people of color be treated by the state enforcement mechanism at parity with white people.

You may find that distasteful, but it is difficult to see what aspect of that is hateful.

From their own website: "We are working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise."

https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/

I'm only writing all this because it's very important not to let rhetoric like "white nationalists and Black Lives Matter are equivalent"; they're not and it's disingenuous or dishonest to conflate them.