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Great set of questions and points.

> I struggle a bit with whether YouTube should be legally required to follow the First Amendment (they are a US corporation, not a government), but I can say that I think that their deletion of David Icke's account leaves a bad taste in my mouth- not because I like him, but because I worry that YouTube may one day bow to majority pressure and censor a topic in which I belong to the minority.

As an aside to this topic, I would be a bit troubled if YouTube were enforcing policies silently without telling stating what they were. In this case, they are stating what those guidelines are, and how the criteria of how they enforce them, although that brings up another point of yours:

> It would be great if YouTube adopted easy to follow policies and would terminate accounts based on clear breaches of policy, rather than just playing whack-a-mole with whatever topic is hot at the moment. There are tons of other videos spreading misinformation on YouTube about other public health topics (the anti-vax movement being a big one), why is David Icke's account being deleted and not theirs? There are tons of other conspiracy theorists on YouTube, why are Alex Jones and David Icke the only ones to get their accounts deleted?

I would surmise it could be a factor of scale, but even if it wasn't I am not sure it necessarily matters. For example, let's say they state their position on an arbitrary policy (unrelated to this latest policy) and let's assume that the users would nearly universally support it. However, let's also say they only take action on "the worst offenders" (of some definition), would it be better for them to not do anything at all until they have the means to capture the majority of videos / users that violate those policies, or start with the larger groups first?

Another way I like to look at these sort of problems is switching the position around in how the platform developed. If YouTube still positioned itself as a general platform from the beginning, but at their very start they stated that any health / medical content must adhere to WHO policies, and then YouTube grew to the ubiquity it is today, I am curious what sort of acceptance we would have for it in today's environment right now. Would it have made YouTube less likely to become as popular, opening the door further for competitors to enter the space?
If you’re worried about freedom of speech, then giving more people standing to sue David Icke for taking his dumb advice would be far more stifling than allowing YT to ban people. This would basically allow anyone with deep enough pockets to police speech using the courts.
There are other ways to censor content.

On HN bad comments get very light. Still readable but everybody knows they were downvoted.

YouTube could add labels over the videos like "this content contains false and dangerous information". Then the content can still be discussed but everybody will be alerted to be very sceptical about the information.
I know of a few companies burning AWS at around that rate, though they are outliers. And yes, 90+% of that is lighting money on fire. In the list of business priorities, cost containment is pretty low for some companies when capital is cheap. There is a much larger cohort of companies spending much less but wasting just as much.
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you can almost always bypass FRP, need more information on tablet model and Android version
Yes the size most certainly matters, obviously Facebook should be held to a different standard than some niche social network for pet owners with 100 users. Monopolies should be held to a different standard.

I'd argue that the nature of the business should factor into it as well. Since Youtube advertises and presents itself as a platform where any user can upload any kind of content excluding pornography and dark stuff (eg. animal abuse), I don't think that censoring on the basis of political views alone is justified (I'm not familiar with David Icke, so I can't speak for this specific incident).
Why you see them? Because developers should know better, but there is a community that keeps writing C style code in C++, unfortunately, as their teachers are stuck in the 90's.

"CppCon 2015: Kate Gregory “Stop Teaching C"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWhqhNdYyk

But what to expect when schools keep using Turbo C++ as teaching tool, https://galdin.dev/blog/why-you-shouldnt-be-using-turbo-c/
Deplatforming has proven highly effective at preventing bad actors from continuing to spread misinformation on Reddit and other social media sites [1]. I support free speech in principle, but internet platforms are such a powerful megaphone for spreading misinformation, the likes of which history has never seen, that platform owners may feel ethically obligated to act against those who would misuse their systems to cause global societal harm.

Some misinformation is just unambiguously harmful and so profoundly incorrect that no reasonable person could see stopping it as a slippery slope of free speech. For example, the misinformation being proliferated by Icke, that 5G spreads coronavirus and that people should destroy 5G towers. People actually went out and set 5G towers alight in response to Icke's posts [2]. It's quite reasonable that Youtube or any other social media platform would not want to be responsible for disseminating information to leads to real-life crimes.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-ba...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/4/21207927/5g-towers-burning...
An excellent counterpoint to the "sunlight is the best disinfectant!" crowd currently raging against YouTube's "censorship" of David Icke in another thread.
Platforms that are monopolies or close to it are essentially the modern day town square, except instead of police and government enforcing rules, it's tech companies.
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Note that WHO never said that, it is correct that they in the middle of January said that the evidence they had at the current time then did not show transfer between people. But they never spoke about it as it was a fact.
Porridge is made from oats where I live. Is it made from wheat flower where you live?
His Instagram bio reads: “70% of my body is made of movies.”
Even in the name of security you can't take away certain privacy privileges in Germany, as far as I understand the laws.
any recommendations for games related to Computer Science, Data Structures, Algorithms, etc.?
I have already tried human resource machine and 7 billion humans, but got bored after a while?
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GP was saying there is no flexibility of infrastructure if you use cloud servers and they are therefore recession proof.

I was saying it's pretty flexible within the constraints set up, and often companies have spare capacity they could significantly scale down to save money (for example a travel company during a pandemic has very few customers), so it is flexible in the most important way (cost).

That means cloud companies will see a significant reduction in resource usage and thus revenue if enough customers do this.
>I don’t understand the free speech arguments here.

It's pretty simple. Many people rely on youtube's platform to reach viewers. This is the case for youtube recommendations, but also for subscriptions. When youtube bans someone, that person will reach a vastly smaller audience, in effect censoring them. Questions?

>I can say no.

That is a free speech issue as well. We might decide that you chose correctly, usually on the balance that the dead kittens advertiser has an equivalent platform available to them, but that doesn't rend it out of the arms of free speech

>If the government bashed down Icke’s door and smashed his computer then sure, we should worry about free speech.

Free speech is not only a concept in law. Freedom refers to the ability to do something, not only the legal right to do something. Free speech refers to the ability to reach an (non-captive) audience, not a legal right to say things in an empty room.
OTOH some documented phenomenon lack good pics. Ball lightning is not very well photographed for example.

My gut says it’s Chinese or Russian tech but it’s admittedly fun to speculate.
The "shouting 'fire' in a theatre" meme comes from a case where the Supreme Court used the Espionage Act to restrict speech because the speech in question didn't sufficiently support entering into a World War and advocated against the draft.

Not exactly the best way to convince people that restricting speech is actually good.
The courts have made it quite clear that they’re unwilling to consider companies to be similar to the “town square” unless if they’re doing literally what governments have traditionally done. There is no clear way to argue that YT is doing something that governments traditionally did, so you’re out of luck there.

If you believe YT is a monopoly, then it would be far less harmful to everyone if it was just broken up, rather than basically banning moderation on the internet.
What's the single thread performance difference of a fast x86 cpu running emulated ARM code vs a fast ARM server or an AWS ARM instance?
This seems silly. The article acknowledges that no other model gives as many predictions. Noting that some can predict when the peak is (was? I think it can only predict the is that we saw the peak already), but ostensibly not how big the peak will be.

And if you throw in that no model has managed to predict how widespread this already was in NYC, we're left with a field that loves to snipe at the only group in the room willing to try and answer questions.

Worse, we still have articles writing the IFR and CFR as if they can be started as a single number. Checking today's numbers in WA, if you are over sixty, the CFR is a staggering 20%. An easy guess for why this is hitting NYC harder could just be that they have more people over sixty than a quarter of Seattle's entire metro area.

So yes, if there are better models, let's see them. Please. But if we are just going to complain about the experts being asked to model something we don't understand, at least try and make it sound less like a witch hunt.
I think you underestimate how badly the old sysvinit sucked in the world with many good distribution-provided packages.

It was pretty good in the good, old days, where a sysadmin could list every daemon the system runs by heart, but it was breaking apart when you had tons of random packages:

Package X uses "start-stop-daemon" in ini file, so there is no way to get error messages if config file is incorrect. Package B has no disable switch, so you get to stick "exit" in /etc/default. Package C has this weird logging format which cannot be rotated daily, and is not integrated with anything. Package D likes to die and leave PID file around, and then it fails to restart because of that. Package E likes to bury its settings in /etc/init.d/ file, so there are conflicts every time it updates. User A likes to leave their executables on their machine after logout, so we need a cleanup script.

This was seriously getting old -- after you apply a hack after hack, you start wanting something better. There were a few candidates -- upstart, daemontools/runit, systemd. Only two of them actually did the work to add backward compatibility and integrate with upstream. Upstart sucked even worse than systemd. This left only one candidate.

Remember, even if you can claim for Fedora that someone "convinced the PHB", this does not apply to other distros. Debian, Ubuntu, Arch all chose the systemd voluntarily. This is because sysvinit sucks, and no one came up with a better option.
Why You Should Oppose The Censorship Of David Icke (Hint: It’s Got Nothing To Do With Icke)

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/why-you-should-oppose-the...

> A truly free being does not need an alliance of plutocrats and government agencies to protect their mind from David Icke. A truly free being does not want an alliance of plutocrats and government agencies to exert any control whatsoever over what ideas they are permitted to share and what thoughts they are permitted to think. A truly free being opposes with all their might any attempt to lock in a paradigm where human communication (and thereby thought) is controlled by vast unaccountable power structures which benefit from the absence of dissent.

> Be a truly free being. Oppose this intrusion into your mental sovereignty.
Because Youtube presents itself as being agnostic to the content and letting anyone upload anything (excluding porn and dark stuff that any reasonable person would deem inappropriate like ISIS propaganda or child abuse).

If Youtube presented itself as being a video platform for <insert political affiliation> from the getgo, then I wouldn't see a legal problem with moderating videos containing opposing views.
I simply don’t want reddit to social engineer in that manner.

Don’t get me wrong: they can do as they please. I just don’t personally prefer to live in the world where Reddit is deciding what is hate, what is acceptable, etc.
Someone doth protest too much.
It's not that hard (I've done this recently for clients). If your traffic is 90% of normal for a few months, scaling down with load makes a lot of sense, then you can scale back up when ready. There are also autoscaling solutions like serverless.
You’re implying that there is a legal difference between being a publisher and a platform, which is not actually a thing under US law.
I ran into this roadblock when trying to use NLP to analyze Yelp reviews for restaurants. A phrase like "they served me a well-done steak" can sound like a compliment but actually be a complaint.
that's what coworking spaces are for. and it's absolutely a good option, if you can find one near your home. of course it may add to your cost, depending on how much space you have at home
>some drastic form of change and restructuring will have to happen

That's how we got this administration in the first place. There is no rule that smashing the system has to leave you with a better one.
Revisit. I can where brown9 is coming from. I could have avoided leaving that interpretation open by writing, "here is an example of a quality that is held by all X, yet not by all Y".
I've yet to see any actual evidence that wearing a cloth mask while social distancing helps you, as a healthy individual. And I've seen some to the contrary[0].

One of the WHO's main concerns is to prevent shortages and supply chain issues (see their statements about travel and import bans). A run on medical masks is problematic, and the WHO's guidance prevents that.

I'll note that basically no government suggested (or suggests) wearing medical masks[1], unless you are symptomatic, which is in line with the WHO's guidance.

Social distancing is much more important, and while masks may help, especially in areas that are crowded (which you should avoid if possible anyway), they only really help if you are symptomatic, in which case you should absolutely not be outside.

The bay area is fairly unique in requiring mask wearing, and while it's not a major imposition, the utility is probably pretty marginal.

[0]: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/data-do-...

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7118603/
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"Deplatforming" is some pretty great doublespeak for "censoring".

We already have a solution to idiots vandalizing 5G towers: arrest them.
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Casual is awesome! I would like to learn more, Do you guys also hire?
Honestly, hearing this functionality described is the same as seeing someone on television suggesting injecting bleach to cure some virus thingamajig.

Seriously. If I'd needed to solve "this problem" I would've written something to do it. This is false equivalence gaslighting on a level I only see equalled on national television.

I have an actual job where I have to get actual other things done. A lot of them. This is going to help less than none. The sheer arrogance of this continued nonsense is infuriating.

If I wanted A real computer, I would've just built it and saved the nickel.
You're commenting about "the courts" in a thread that started with "I very strongly feel that we should be very careful to avoid adopting a legalistic attitude towards freedom of speech."
Yep you are right. I should have said geocentricity.
Thanks for writing this up!

I'm the author of model #22 on the list, which is built from my vast experience collecting SaaS models and writing articles on it. I'm honored to be included in the list even though my model is only available in open office format.

If anyone's interested I've written about how to model investor traction to your model, sort of a metamodelling framework for startup founders. You can see it on my twitter and instagram, if anyone's interested.
It is like fun control isn't it? You can own firearms for self defence. But if you murder someone else cause other negative consequences, you need to take responsibility. Free! = irresponsible.
I left a job as a chemist at the the age of 41 (with family & 3 kids) in order to start in iOS development a few years ago. I got a job as a junior software developer that did not pay a lot, and like you, no one was interested in anything I had out on GitHub, nor an app I was working other than the fact it showed I probably had actually written some iOS code.

But I was confident then as you should be now, that if I stuck around and pursued improving my skills as I worked over the next few years, I’d become a valuable asset that lots of employers would gladly hire. In fact, I did. I eventually had recruiters contacting me!

There’s a lot to learn and it simply takes time and a commitment to doing good work. If you are excited about programming, then it’s a bit like a dream come true, that is getting rewarded for working hard.
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I think that framing ("necessary but not sufficient") is a much more productive way that I wish free speech advocates would use more.

My opposition to censorship derives from the fact that it tends to require an unjustified hierarchy (i.e. the violence of the state).

However, I have a real problem with imparting some kind of magical quality to ideas. I'm particularly annoyed by the way in which free speech advocates act like social norms are a form of censorship. More specifically, that free speech requires platforming -- i.e., rejecting a freedom of association.

While I do think that the power companies like Google exert of society is well wroth investigating, in general I find that these are much weaker examples of the use of force to censor ideas.
The "marketplace of ideas" clearly doesn't work for the betterment of mankind and the world. Corporate interests throw vast amounts of money into astroturf campaigns, creating propaganda and misinformation, in order to discredit their opponents, who do not have the same access to funds and influence. Google, FB et.al. are part of the problem, with their deep influences in politics. They ban the token nutjob like Icke ever so often, so they can claim they're "doing something", meanwhile their algorithms continue to funnel people from completely ordinary videos to conspiracy theories and virulent content. It's disturbing how quickly this happens on a brand-new profile.

Misinformation spreads like wildfire because it doesn't need fact checks, it doesn't need to be based on research. As long as you can get enough spread, you can get a large number of people to believe anything, simply because they heard it from someone. People are not rational actors.

Witness the demonization of pipeline protestors, people who protest the clear-cutting of forests, people who argue for trans rights. They upset the corporate-run status quo, so they are suppressed by the authorities, who act on the whims of the rich and powerful.

Witness the rise of the alt-right, the so-called "intellectual dark web" and the influence of sites like 4chan and 8chan.

Armed people barging into governmental buildings, and basically being allowed to do so almost unimpeded by police, photo ops for the media, a show of force for their allies. I've seen them ridiculed as yokels, but it didn't matter. What matters is visibility and the "look at what we can do without being stopped" factor.

Imagine what would have happened if BLM, a group of Muslims or any left-wing group had tried to do the same thing. Think Kent State and the National Guard.

The message is clear: Act against capitalism and the powers that be and you will be suppressed, by unlimited force if necessary
Tail call elimination isn't always possible, but it's the gateway drug to continuations which are always possible, and continuations are the gateway drug to actors, and once you have actors you're free to move any element of your program anywhere, break it into pieces and put them back together, go nuts, it just works--and now you're able to write code on asynchronous million-node networks without having to worry about locks, mutating global data, shared stuff, and everything else that gets in the way of using modern hardware.
Having to see kids learning up close, actual pedagogical knowledge matters.
These days it's easier for me to pull a python docker image, then to figure out how to install it on my system.

Only for python do I develop inside docker.
Like they say in horror movies: "It's coming from outside the Faraday Cage".
This board regularly ‘censors’ people who break the rules. It’s the price of having a reasonably nice board to post on. There’s a difference between censorship and punishing bad behavior.
I think the over-the-top dialogue is what makes his style so unique and part of what fans of his enjoy so much. He takes silly ideas and puts them in serious scenarios and acts like it’s normal, but it’s unmistakably and unapologetically “Kojima”
What’s your point? That we should ignore how the courts and first amendment law actually works?
> Yet in 2020 I still have to pay TurboTax to help file my taxes because the U.S. government is too incompetent to make it as easy

Normally I’m all about Hanlon’s razor (assume stupidity before malice), but given the absurd amount TurboTax spends lobbying against any meaningful simplification you can’t fully pin place this on gov’t incompetence.
The fact that the first amendment exists is strong evidence that censorship works. If it didn’t work, why is it so important to prevent the government from censoring people? After all, censorship is futile right?
hideo kojima's ego and level of marketing allows him to thrust himself into the limelight more than is deserved, in my opinion. he is simply outclassed by the likes of fumito ueda and hidetaka miyazaki in terms of gameplay, and ueda and miyazaki are no slouches in world building either. it's just that they go about it in vastly different and less dramatic fashion than kojima. kojima is that guy that thinks he's clever and people don't get it, meanwhile everyone gets it and doesn't think it's clever. he's also mentioned multiple times that he wanted to make movies, and that much is clear in his games. he makes terrible movies in the form of video games.
I'm a Saudi citizen, and most of you just wrote is false & completely not true..

" Most of the citizens simply don't work -- at all"

Where in the world you got this??
No matter how careful you are to avoid lock-in, infrastructure has weight. You have data, network infrastructure, security audits, IAM permissions, Infrastructure as code (no Terraform is not a magic bullet), training, DNS entries etc.

I wonder how many people who think they have a large “cloud agnostic” infrastructure have actually sat down with project managers and come up with a project plan and cost analysis of a large migration.

I have witnessed how much it costs to do just a Workday migration.