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>So tyranny of the majority is okay?

1) I never said a US-centric system of laws was "okay", I just answered the question of who defines hate speech; 2) it seems to be bad-faith to call such a system as a tyranny of the majority...especially when the laws is question specifically protect minority classes of people. Was the Obama administration a tyranny of the majority? How about Trump? Because Trump actually lost the popular vote, does that make him a tyranny of the minority?

>The obvious caveat to your proposal is that you must implicitly trust the government, not just today but in the future.

I must have missed where I said you must implicitly trust the government and their laws now and forever in the future...In fact, it seems the obvious caveat to the US system of government is that there are 3 branches all providing checks and balances on the others...and implicit in our government is the idea that if you don't like the government or their laws, you have the freedom to organize to elect new legislators who can repeal the laws. Not to mention the idea of the voters themselves (whether from the majority or minority) serve as jurors that make findings of fact over these matters.

>This in spite of the fact that next election cycle the majority can pick someone bad.

Do you have evidence of hate speech protecting the majority class, because again traditionally hate speech laws tends to protect the minority classes of people.
GDPR has a lot of burdensome requirements, like hiring a commissar and multi-month government review periods before features launches. Do not bet 21M USD that merely deleting cookies and logs will get you anywhere near compliance.
You can - Reddit's users can all subscribe to a other subreddits and can unsubscribe from the default subreddits.
Surely there are some differences between Myanmar and Tokyo right? There’s a lot of countries in Asia.
I don’t think it’s a straw man. I was responding to this part of the article, which suggests that jobs should also be of a certain minimum quality:

> What’s more, the jobs that our “blockbuster” economy is creating aren’t just lackluster in monetary terms, but in other measures of job quality, as well. A recent Gallup survey illuminates this point. To assemble a more fine-grained portrait of American working life than federal wage and employment data can provide, the pollster asked 6,600 U.S. workers what they saw as the defining characteristics of a “good” job, then used their answers to construct a “job-quality index.” The resulting metric reflects not only a given job’s level of wages and benefits but also whether it offers career-advancement opportunities, stable hours, a sense of purpose, the ability to change unsatisfying aspects of one’s employment, and job security, among other things.

The article seems bent on making this point. Earlier on the article, it notes the following in even more vague terms:

> For the median job-seeker in Trump’s America, the odds may be good, but the good jobs are an oddity.

To me I feel this is textbook entitlement, expecting everything to be perfect, and expecting work to be more than a voluntary two-party exchange of goods and services that participants undertake in search of utility. Isn’t this just greed and seeking luxury in a different veil? It is possible to have jobs that provide in all these dimensions but I think because everyone would want those conditions, the competition would be fierce and would diminish some qualities (like pay) as a result. If one desires extraordinary workplace circumstances they must differentiate themselves through talent or hard work. It can’t be something everyone gets for “free”.
I mean, if you think the writer should have use some derogatory term for cops maybe you should take it up with them. Still does not make what you wrote factual.

> the first ones, the Bow Street Runners

Incidentally this is also counter factual:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police#Early_modern_policing

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_criminal_justice#In...
The smallest wasm binary produced by rustc is ~110 bytes, Rust struggles with this far, far less than Go, or any language that has a significant runtime.

This doesn’t mean that the rest of your reasons are invalid, of course.
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> They are nowhere near reliable enough to dare fly over structures, people or roads unless the pilot is willing to face the consequences of killing one or more people and possibly burning down an entire neighborhood.

If your entire neighborhood can be burned down by one consumer-level drone, you've got bigger issues.

Kids hit baseballs near crowds, with similar kinetic potential and the occasional injury and even death. We manage to survive as a society without strict regulations on baseball games.
I've spent significant time in HCMC (about 6 months over four years). It is vibrant, friendly, booming, tech heavy, and goddamn cheap. I didn't need medical care, and didn't have to cook because food is amazing and cheap. I computed about 1/10th to 1/12th the cost of my life in Northern Cali. I hope when I'm older it is still cheap and not environmentally wiped out. (I'm also biased because twice I met a woman who I thought was waaaay out of my league and we ended up dating.)
Linux 1.0 was 1 meg, gzipped and less than 200K lines of code, total.

Linux 4.x is over 150 megs, gzipped. Just the lines in the arch/x86 folder are more than the total lines in Linux 1.0.
Why not hire someone who can take a bit of your burden?
Valuing PEOPLE over productivity, could reduce global inequality.
I have a few goals in mind:

1. Get more flexible. I'd like to be able to touch my toes. Stretch goal (pun slightly intended): palms to the ground

2. Finish 3 (BotW, Doom, and Celeste) of my Switch games. I've done a good job of playing a few hours of some great games, but I'd really like to see some of them through.

3. Deep dive into Clojure. For someone that uses it daily at work, I really feel like I ought to know it better.

4. Complete the Rust book and explore some ideas using WASM and WASI.

5. Another triathlon. I did one (slowly) 3 years ago. It'd be fun to train again and try to better my time.
I noticed several years ago that you can mentally replace terms like "problematic" with "sinful" and "hate speech" with "blasphemy" without losing any meaning in most instances. They basically convey nothing more than a subjective moral judgment informed by group affiliation and puritan ideology.

"Racist/sexist/homophobic" still convey a little bit of information since they hint at a way in which something might be genuinely bad. But their definitions have been so irresponsibly broadened that you have to take it on a case-by-case basis whether the label even means anything let alone whether it's accurate.

This is a bad problem and everyone should worry about it, because a meaning vacuum is like a power vacuum. Even people who don't care about cis white men getting verbally abused need to realize that when you publish insane histrionics about OK signs and cartoon frogs, you generate confusion and doubt that actual white supremacists can use for cover. Extremism begets extremism.
Horizontal scrolling is great some times, ex. when you don’t want the text to be broken on mobile.

I like when quotes are italicized by using quotes.

Guide:
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
That is also a good point.

It's why most "general discussion" forums become unusable. You mostly wind up people who only have expertise in "free time".
The instruction sets provided by chip makers (except vector instructions) are tuned to match what compilers for ancient languages want to emit.

The chips move heaven and earth to maintain the fiction that those instructions actually direct what they do.

The number of fundamentally different kinds of cache, and specialized state machines not directly accessible by instructions, in a modern chip would boggle your mind.
I will spend less time browsing reddit and hacker news to spend more time focused on my interests.
Uzbekistan Bans Citizens from Buying Cryptocurrencies
People with $150-170K in yearly income living in DC (which has a very high cost of living) easily become multi-millionaires in a few short years, and so do their spouses and children. A crackhead son of a vice president gets paid more than an Exxon Mobil board member in spite of having no experience. He then also lands a gig running an investment firm in China with $1.5B under management. A very talented young man. Joe's brother, James Biden is also very "talented", and he somehow got a $1.5B construction contract in Iraq in spite of having no experience in construction. The fact that you didn't know anything about this until earlier this year tells you everything you need to know about the "free" press in this country. Moving _up_ the list: Obama gave Pearson $350M contract for Common Core textbooks, and Pearson paid him $65M for a book deal. This is the presidency which had "no scandals" at all. That's just _one_ example of many.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden...

Dig just a little bit, and you'll find examples on nearly everyone who has been in DC for a while except perhaps Bernie Sanders who's "only" worth $3.5M.

"You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook" said Harry Truman. This holds to this day.
Americans retiring to Vietnam for cheap medical and decent standard of living
To do something about this requires supply chain security that you won't find outside governments that are able to realize economies of scale.
An Amuse-Bouche from APL History (2014)
You think folks making a coordinated drone attack are going to willingly install Remote ID in their drones, under their real, traceable identities?

If a drone drops grenades, you'll probably have little trouble tracing the grenades.
The difference is that human health "insurance" is de-facto mandatory due to rampant price inflation as well as continual lobbying to increase their moat, whereas pet care costs haven't quite spiraled out of control yet so we can easily reject the scam.

Overextending yourself, glossing it over with an extended warranty, and abdicating your pet's health to corporate cost-optimization is not a nice thing to do. The hard-to-hear responsible thing is to not get a pet until you're in the financial position to take care of them!

Let us hope this whole idea of "pet insurance" will be history in several years, rather than it succeeding in turning the veterinary industry into an overfinancialized clusterfuck like human healthcare.
> if they're taught to enjoy it

Left to enjoy, eh?

> I had to get a certain score before i could play outside

Your intrinsic motivation was killed with extrinsic motivation. That's the lesson here. Exercises are okay. Children kinda like exercises - even stupid or pointless ones.
> We have chosen.

For now. But remember the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

There are probably quite a few Americans on HN that would like to see cars severely limited or otherwise much more difficult to obtain in favor of trains and public transport. Articles come up regularly about banning cars in cities.

Sugar taxes and sugar drink bans are regularly proposed in California.

Beer... yeah, I concede that will probably never be illegal again, though I could see tobacco becoming illegal some day seeing as the legal purchase age was just raised to 21.
One thing I immediately noticed is that apparently it supports exporting full backups of the device? Surely this is a terrible idea? I'm far from a security expert but I'd have thought you'd want to make it so that it is extremely difficult to extract key material from a security key, not offer it as a feature?
Yeah, I agree with you. I had a sneaking suspicion.

Funny you mention Electron: my company switched from Qt to Electron because it opens up a larger pool of developers with instant cross-platform portability with a fraction of the debug overhead.
I'm not sure if I want the leader to be able to filter it out, is what I'm saying.
As terrible as this is, access to Wikipedia is hardly a "right".
One piece of information the article doesn't acknowledge is that property rights in Vietnam aren't the same as they are in the US. So if a foreigner "buys" an apartment in Vietnam, they can only have it for up to 50 years. In other words, it's an asset that is steadily decreasing in value, and not one that the "owner" can necessarily hand down to the next generation at a higher or the same value unless changes are made to those laws.
The mobile clients only show you what's there and download on demand, at least that's the default.
The Four Elements of Simple Design
Behavior-Driven React Development with Cucumber
Strange he didn't see the irony of "insult" when referring to Asia as a monolith
Typically it is forward. That doesn't mean "better", but it does mean that it is moving things in directions that the rest of the country eventually follows.

Can you give an example of something California did that was a move backwards? As in, moving back to a way that we did things in the past but the rest of the country has moved on from?
There were other possibilities, but you were punished for taking a guess when there were guaranteed-safe squares. Guessing is only supposed to be safe when you have to do it.
To use your analogy, if I chose to remove all paintings from my wall, you would break into my house to install a painting on my wall to force it into my peripheral vision.

Why should someone be obliged to consume information that they've deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore? Do climate-change deniers, anti-vaxxers, and flat earth supporters also have the same right to present their side of the story too? And if not, who decides what information people are being forced to consume?

Why can't the user decide for himself?
TDD Guided by Zombies
I legitimately can not see a valid use for 'smart contacts', unless there is some sort of semi-valid medical application (some sort of sensor/monitor). Also, if these are getting data wireless... not sure how I feel about a transmitter right on my eyeball, high power broadcasts can cause cataracts fast, presumably low ones over extended periods would too.

"But soliders could use them for"

Soldiers wouldn't wear contacts, contacts are a pain in duty/hot/cold areas and you aren't going to want mission-critical equipment to fold up/get something on it/fall out. Same goes for police, fire fighters, those working in manufacturing facilities etc.
> First, that implies there's some sort of authority - legal or otherwise - that determines "socially valuable."

Not necessarily. I agree that having values dictated by fiat is a recipe for disaster - such arrangements are bound to get corrupted over time. But on the other end of the spectrum, there is some sense of social value - a sense in which e.g. garbage collectors, firemen and doctors do more socially valuable jobs than athletes and entertainers. A sense that's easy to convey - imagine if suddenly, any one of the former three occupations disappeared; the death toll and suffering would quickly overshadow the largest of wars. Meanwhile, even if both of the latter occupations disappeared, the culture would be a bit poorer, but the society would function just fine.

Unfortunately, it seems that this concept of social value is very hard to robustly define. And if we can't define it, effectively optimizing for it is pretty much out of the question.
The linked paper breaks analogRead-based encryption in section 5 at the end.

But I wonder if you could get better randomnes by, instead of naively pulling one low entropy 10-bit value from analogRead, you pulled 128 bits from successive analogReads and only kept the lowest significant bit.
Wow, even an MIT subdomain gets the hug of death?
They have to be in park. At least in the US thats how mine is.
It makes sense when you look at it that way. But as a customer it leaves me with a crapy taste in my mouth since its the only cloud service I have encountered that has that restriction. But then again, the free tiers for the others are all 5 GB or larger so I never would have had this problem in the first place.
It's different because when you are asked a question about "the cats" and you can see the cats in question, you presume that you are only being asked about that which is displayed in front of you.

But when you are asked a question about something that is not displayed in front of you, then you do not presume that what you see is the entirety of evidence, because you are being asked about something for which what you are looking at provides no evidence. Therefore, "all cats," rather than "these cats."

"I don't see any of the blue cats, so I don't know how many of the blue cats are bouncing"
Substantially reduce alcohol consumption.
Quit Smoking.
Bring 20-40% of my income from initiatives not related to my current work.
Build profitable side project.
Join Toastmasters.
I'm glad they are suggesting something short of censorship.

I've always supported the idea of letting people choose what they want to see. If moderators could tag posts with tags like 'spam', 'nsfw', 'graphicviolence', 'racistagainstraceX', etc... and if people could then choose what kinds of posts they want to see... and if anyone could be a moderator... and if people could then subscribe to only the moderators they trust... problem solved.

I just can't figure out how to make such a system scale. I've tried a few architectures but I'm still looking for the breakthrough to make it scale.

The problem today is if you don't like Twitter moderators you go to Mastodon or to Gab, and the community fractures into bubbles, and that drives people further apart. I think fixing moderation is going to be the next big thing.
Can they sell it at the end of those 50 years and buy something else? If so, I can't see why purchasing one would necessarily be steadily decreasing in value, except for the requirement of a rushed sale if you waited until the very last minute to sell.
But we can ignore the need to increase productivity enough (which is hard) in order to achieve better standards for all if we just take from those at the tippy top who hoard wealth that could be used to help those in need. We have enough resources/wealth and productivity now to help the rest but we don’t. The issue is that despite the continuous increase in wealth and productivity, the distribution is inequal enough to make sure that the worst never reach the conditions that they deserve as human beings. We can solve the problem with resources that exist now and the unequal distribution is getting worse, we shouldn’t keep kicking the can down the road and not focusing on inequality.
I learned with GW-BASIC and made a text based adventure game. I wish it was still floating around the internet today but alas I believe I wrote it before we got online and it didn't survive.
> It is therefore irresponsible to use C for a new project like this

So, given all this doom that hangs above my head, what should I have used?
That's not how people use C libraries.
NPM lockfiles can be a security blindspot for injecting malicious modules in PRs
Two Kinds of Testing
With that money you can buy a penthouse in any big metropolis here in Brasil. Or a house just as big in a luxury condo for 7/10 of that
Animal Trial
> I should have been more clear that Julia takes a different route to Object Orientation (multiple dispatch instead of classes).

I think your original comment was fair. I've looked at Crystal and Julia and find both projects really exciting. That said, it's hard to see why one would prefer Crystal's class/object model to Julia's. Multimethods + operator overloading is just insanely powerful and elegant. It's one of Julia's real strengths and allows for a new level of code reuse.

I wish Julia had a more python-like syntax (I don't want to open a can of worms with this comment but do feel that Python's popularity is at least to some degree attributable to a aesthetically pleasing syntax.), and I wish its syntax were more regular (I'm sure the Mathematica function definition style will lead to problems with tooling, linters. C++, to my mind, shows the perils of an overly-complex syntax, and Julia, in a well-meaning attempt to entice scientists, risks doing the same.). But in every other sense Julia is just fucking awesome.

That said - Crystal is pretty cool too, and if you're a ruby programmer I'm sure it's a compelling language to use.
That's (tautologically, I admit) defined implicitly by my answer.

I define it (for the purposes of this conversation) as an opinion that its holders buy into so much that they outright refuse to acknowledge anything in opposition. After-all, if you believe you've bought-in to "the truth" (and lack critical-thinking skills, and/or have been propagandized to this point anyway) then it has to be an extreme position (by whatever the standards of the contemporary Overton window apply) because otherwise it wouldn't be necessary to propagandize or rile similarly-minded people against your opposition.
Ray Dalio: Automation and Universal Basic Income [video]
Yes, generic lambdas in 2014 made coding C++ fun. The range library in C++20 will do it again.
Over the past 20 years, the amount of wealth has increased substansally, and almost none of the gain has gone to those at the bottom of society. Inequality is growing every year.
I agree, this only blocks legit numbers since they're spoofed anyway and next spam call will be an auto-generated number anyway (form a similar area code). My solution is to simply not pick up calls that are not in my phone's address book. I still get a lot of annoying calls, from a few a day to dozens. It's frustrating but I refuse to get annoyed, to keep my sanity. Most of the calls that I get are making an announcement in Chinese. I am not Asian and I do not understand Chinese. I've read somewhere that it's scam meant to swindle Chinese citizens in the US for money.

My wife received a call from a person who was angry at some phone scammer and started cursing her and telling her not to call anymore. My wife tried to explain that she did not make the call, that the number was spoofed, but to no avail, the curses continued until they hung up. I find this kind of breach quite problematic and don't really understand how it can proliferate to this extent.
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The FAA is clearly taking a much longer view of this than most people on this thread, and describing a system which scales safely to having huge drone fleets in the sky, which most of the "just wing it, it'll work itself out" counter-proposals here do not.
What do people use for self service embedded analytics in SaaS applications?