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It would of been better to leave it there, but had a disclaimer warning that couldn't be skipped akin to the old piracy warnings on purchased movie DVD's.

You also won't stop such types of content from appearing on said platforms, less popular but still they will appear, get popular and get closed down. But that's an issue with some types of content that all social media platforms have.

No solution will be 100%, let's not presume that there will ever be 100% solution. Though is this the best approach. Exposing and debating head on would be the better solution and this eliminates that.
True, a transformer sitting in the middle of a warehouse is pretty safe. Unfortunately most of them actually in use have these huge current-carrying electrical wires running right that "faraday cage"...
Private institutions should be bound by the first amendment once they've reached a critical mass. The reason I say this is that, if a small number of entities control the flow of information, and they get away with picking and choosing who has the opportunity to be heard, then the first amendment is effectively made meaningless. I want to be able to choose what comments to allow on my block and, at the same time, I want to be able to express myself on a prominent platform in a way that may or may not offend the powers that be.

Big friendly looking corporations like Google shouldn't be used as proxies for the government to bypass the rights of Americans(or anyone for that matter). For whatever reason, people see corporations as being different from governments. What is a government but a corporation that owns land? What is a corporation but a form of government? They're quick to should about the importance of dissent, telling the government what it cannot do to our rights, yet corporations get a free pass when they are on the right side and hand out free goodies.

Beyond the likeness of corporations to governments, big corporate censorship should be opposed on the grounds of principle. America and other countries are founded on the principle of freedom of speech, among other things such as the concept that all "men" are created equal. We don't allow businesses to discriminate people by their race, color, sex, or religion because of that principle. Why then can we not apply the principle of freedom of speech to Silicon Valley and Big Media?

It's pretty frightening that the same people who told me how brilliant Nineteen Eighty-Four is(I found it the least convincing of dystopian warnings I've read), easily fall into the trap of believing that we desperately need a centralized Ministry of Truth. In the last year I've been realizing that Nineteen Eighty-Four is more realistic than I had believed.
>It's not their job to tell us what people should be looking at or not.

That is their job. That is literally their job and business model. They have never been neutral, they have always used moderation, demonetization and algorithmic sorting to tell you what you should be looking at. And they've always banned accounts at their discretion, often opaquely and without apparent rationale. It's always been their platform and their rules.

>Then what? We end up like China where we can only browse government propaganda?

No, because, despite the popular FUD narrative that HN spins in every single one of these threads, Youtube isn't a government. It doesn't have the power of a government, nor is it more powerful than a government. It doesn't have monopoly control over the internet, over video, over social media, or over the dissemination of information.
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It's great, but I don't see a path higher.
I don’t understand the free speech arguments here. Youtube is an advertising platform. They can do what they want with their platform. If I own a billboard, and someone wants to advertise their bags for dead kittens, I can say no.

There needs to be some sense of proportionality. If the government bashed down Icke’s door and smashed his computer then sure, we should worry about free speech. But getting banned from Youtube?
"Do you have evidence that the truth more often than not win over lies?"

We have a myriad of evidence that societies that suppress the truth for "the public good" don't go in a desirable direction or end well.
If spreading misinformation is a valid means to shut down a channel then why do channels like Spirit Science remain? They got about 900k subs and spend the whole time spouting the most insane claims you could possibly think of with absolutely no evidence to back it up and yet they continue to remain.
> Of course it does. Many software users are stuck on multiple-year-old toolchains for various reasons, yet these systems still need to be able to handle unicode properly.

So? Use the external library then. One thing does not preclude the other.

> No, they cannot. Many users are stuck in older windows versions, linux versions, LTS linux versions, etc. because of their organization or their clients requirements.

I work in such an organization and no, we cannot use third-party packages. The same way we cannot update our toolchain. So in most cases the point is moot.

> These updates would only apply to newer Rust toolchains, that many users cannot use. Unless you are suggesting the release of patch versions for the soon to be 100 old Rust toolchains in existence every time the unicode standard is updated.

You can provide standard Unicode handling that is good enough for 99% software out there. If you need to be on the bleeding edge, then use the bleeding edge library or rustc.

It is pretty simple, actually!
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The selection occurs when hi-res videos depict so clearly what is actually going on that it's revealed to be some mundane event, and doesn't even qualify as a UFO any more (even if it were positively identified as an alien spacecraft, in which case afawk it remains classified)
I have to note this: a typical classroom may have up to a couple hundred students and some kind of schedule to uphold. If everyone asks questions all the time, there would be no progress done, and "fast learners" would be bored out of their minds, while the "slower" ones would still have a hard time. Also, schedule would just be trashed by such approach
You've misread. "Passed over" means rejected. You were reading it as "... will get you passed, over there."
We have exactly one service written in Rust, our multiplayer server. This server needs to hold documents in-memory that can get quite large, and Rust's memory management + concurrency capabilities were well suited for the problem. It's explained here: https://www.figma.com/blog/rust-in-production-at-figma/
Oh, yes, those lunatics claiming Earth is circling the Sun, and claiming thousands of worlds are out there, similar to our God-chosen . Heretics, society is better without them spreading their nonsense ; deny them their voice, or burn them at stake
> I don't believe in fighting "bad ideas" by suppressing them, I believe in shining a light on them. Let the truth fight for itself.

I used to think this too, but I think the decentralised nature of the internet has broken this notion. There is no universal “light” shining on disinformation because there’s no universal anything. You can spend your entire online life in a very strict filter bubble that means the disinformation you consume never gets corrected (Facebook and YouTube have implemented algorithms that opt people into these bubbles without them even being aware). The only way it gets fixed is if people actively try to find information that disagrees with their preconceived notions, and very, very few people are interested in doing that.
There's no free speech if the guy is lying on purpose on public issues. You're entering propaganda territory.
I think it depends on the educational system you have access to. I went to university in England, and the bachelor's degrees are 3 years long, and completely domain focused e.g you just learn computer science. So the MS degrees in that country in that country expects that material as prior knowledge.

In the US, bachelor's degrees are four years, and also include "general education" requirements. So in England, they would often expect you to do a 2nd bachelor's before doing a masters degree, whereas in the US, it would be a waste of time for you to do a second bachelor's, so instead they tend to give you "conditional" admission to the masters, but expect you to complete undergraduate (bachelor's level) CS courses before proceeding to the MS level courses. The bachelor's level courses don't "count" towards your MS, but you still have to complete them before you can start or complete the MS courses.

It sounds like you do have the opportunity to go work as a software engineer, but the pay seems too low to you. Instead, think of it like a university where they pay you :) As another person commented, the real value is the industry experience that you get, the (low) pay is just a bonus, so take it unless you actually can't survive on that for a year or so.

Even 1 year of low paid industry experience will be more valuable to you than a BS + MS in computer science in the short term. In the long-term, the skills you learn in an CS degree can be useful, but they get more useful the further along you go in your career, so better to learn them part-time as you proceed in your career.
Are you implying that working less while delivering more is somehow bad (or working equally and delivering 10x is somehow perverse?)
The very idea of a "filter bubble" is definitionally impossible given a Millian open market of ideas. IMO, it's an ideal worth striving for. Maybe it's easy to draw the line with crazy racists or flat-Earthers, but what about complex social issues: abortion, euthanasia, religions values?
Also, I could swear I saw the gimbal and flir videos few years earlier. The time of release also seems like this is an attempt to draw attention away from the disinfectant and UV light blunder, as this administration did many times before.

The fact that one of the videos is called gimbal and another FLIR Forward Looking InfraRed), tells us that Pentagon knows those are artifacts and most likely those are training videos on how to distinguish artifacts from a real thing.
Agreed it is a hard balance, all gets down to how responsible the average person is and working around that aspect.

Universal free speech as it stands, allows racism and with that, you are not wrong. Free speech within some moral boundaries, though free debate, that is the aspect of free speech to provide balance that is equally important.
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Impressive if you can solve this. Hint: It's a yes or no answer and the obvious answer is probably wrong :)
The studies show that it reduced the amount of overt hate speech on reddit. That's not the same thing as reducing hate speech on reddit nor is it the same thing as reducing hate speech total. The people who left might've ended up creating seeds elsewhere. We don't know that.

Furthermore, overt hate speech isn't necessarily the problem for society. It matters more for society what beliefs someone holds than what they are willing to express. The Soviet Union is an example of that - people outwardly expressed agreement with the government, but secretly were against it.
Righteous. Longevity over Output would be my contribution right now -- More valuable than pushing one release is the constancy of effort and playful persistence with what is being researched/pursued. Everything that caters to Longevity of Enthusiasm and general stamina is valuable, I would say please include that.
If you follow your line of thought then David Icke should be prosecuted. And then YouTube is still wrong here, acting as a judge, jury and executioner vigilante.
A small loan of a million dollars.
Serendipitous interactions with people you know happens all the time in the OpenSimulator community (which of course overlaps with the Second Life community). I frequently run into people I know at various events, including people I used to hang out with years ago on servers that no longer exist.
The big problem with this argument is that youtube is the platform that "recommend" videos based on a hidden algorithm, leading to filter bubbles.
That isn’t an answer to the question the OP posed, though. And it’s an important question.
In the US everyone can be an engineer. We have Customer Service Engineers, People Engineers (Honest! I heard that the other day), People for the Ethical Treatment of Engineers. It's nuts. I used to think I was special with my BsCpE, but now I just tell people I "do computers".
Factorio literally lets you build a system then have bugs attack it. By itself that is the basis for a lot of systems thinking right there.

Especially when you're production drops and you run out of ammo. And the bugs are coming. And power is running low. And you're low on iron-plate and you need that for ammo. Which you're now low on.
Exactly. Don't rock the boat is an ongoing meme in Russia
AP here is only reporting that there is a US government document saying as much. Which was conveniently leaked to them.

Reading between the lines, this document seems to include a statistical analysis of Chinese trade patterns to conclude that its trade in medical supplies in January deviated from the past.

The idea that China was buying more medical supplies in January seems entirely obvious to me, and I’m pretty sure I have seen previous reports of this, extending even beyond January.

The Wuhan Lockdown happened on January 23rd. Do I believe that they were importing more medical equipment in the month where they locked down an entire providence due to the emergence of a new and deadly contagious disease? Yes. Does it take advanced statistics and p-values do convince me of that fact? No.

But, of course, including a bit of stats in such a paper might also induce people to put more stock into its other claims, namely that buying such materials was a motivating factor to hide the extend of the disease. Or that China was hiding the extend of the disease in the first place.

Here's the WHO's bulletin on the matter. This is based on information they were given by China in December. If you search any news, you'll also find reference to China briefing their US contacts on January 3rd, with similar information. The bulletin itself is from January 5th: https://www.who.int/csr/don/05-january-2020-pneumonia-of-unk...

Quotes:

On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Wuhan City

Of the 44 cases reported, 11 are severely ill, while the remaining 33 patients are in stable condition.

National authorities report that all patients are isolated and receiving treatment in Wuhan medical institutions.

One hundred and twenty-one close contacts have been identified and are under medical observation;

So they were hiding it, except they told WHO that they had severely ill patients which had been isolated? And that they were tracking >100 people that had been in contact with these patients, indicating the believe that the disease may be contagious?
This article is underestimating also how creative can people can become under stressful situations.

For example, converting car engines as power generators, fixing these High voltage transformers, etc.

People adapt, they will build power generators based on whatever they find, industries will shift to make photovoltaic panels and electric production will become local, etc.

Yes it's 90% of people dying if there is no electricity and everybody stays home waiting to die.

1 billion people in the world live without electricity.

The solar flares are a minor risk compared to the main actual risk (war or sabotage), if there is a war, no matter how many High voltage transformers you have in stock, they are going to be destroyed.
You know, for years I was under the impression you had a script that grepped for references to @dang because I'd done this before to excellent effect.

Don't know where I got the idea.
David Icke has been a kook for as long as I can remember. People laughed at him, they didn't fear him. Now he's deplatformed, now he's feared.

Has our society become so fragile that once harmless kooks are now considered a threat to civil order?
It is worth worrying about "AI run amok" with the help of humans with a profit motive, or some other motive.
I suppose it would depend on what you mean by equivalent.

It seems plausible that they stem from the same or similar social, psychological, and/or moral defects.
Where are you located? The numbers are way off compared to total compensation in FAANG. A software engineer in the level immediately above junior (2-3 years experience) earns ~250k at Google or Facebook in San Francisco: https://www.levels.fyi/#
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That's the way the Control Data Cybers worked, except that it wasn't just a return address - it was a complete jump instruction. You needed to start your function with a no-op of the correct length, and it was overwritten by the caller. Then to return from your function you simply jumped back to the beginning.
The scarcity of flour, especially bread flour piques my curiosity. I haven't heard about anyone eating vastly more bread than before the quarantine. It's just that everyone is making it at home instead of buying it with meals at restaurants. One would expect the flour not being shipped to the restaurants would be redirected into the retail supply chain but that doesn't appear to be the case.

The only explanations I can see are: 1) People are still panic-buying flour even after they've settled down about toilet paper, 2) everyone is secretly gorging themselves on bread, 3) the supply has dried up, or 4) there's some vast and growing stockpile of unsold bread flour in the wholesale supply chain. None of these explanations ring true to me, so where's the flour going?
And who decides what’s damaging?
This is called a straw man. It's a logical fallacy, but unfortunately a very persuasive argument at times.
Given the percentage of "faxing" that is eFax to eFax, I wonder if we'll even notice when the last fax machine is turned off...
Quite often, the damage caused by disinformation is simply allowing it to be spread.

Look at all the experts trying to fighting the lies Trump has been spreading. All that effort, and yet almost 50% of this country believes him. Every moment they have to spend debunking yet another lie is time they can't spend on something useful.

Look at all the people blaming 5g for COVID19. Every person that acts on that rumor and damages property or makes terrorist threats is drawing police attention away from something more useful.

Sometimes, you can't fight bad ideas by debunking them.
> It's been noted before that ebola is too effective to cause a pandemic.

Something we can all be thankful for. It should be noted that SARS didn’t cause a pandemic, either.

Without the benefit of hindsight, TFA’s argument that “there should have been work into vaccines and cures for SARS-type viruses just in case one of them ends up being a pandemic threat” could have just as easily been applied to Ebola. Ebola and SARS were never pandemic viruses, but the notion of a less deadly but more easily transmitted form of Ebola is a lot scarier than what we ended up with: a less deadly but more easily transmitted form of SARS.

> But, yes, rational and altruistic - I know we're not either of those things by and large. But if you asked your average USA citizen now if they wish NIH had been funded at something > $100 per person, I reckon you'd get a resounding affirmative.

And I think that’s something we can stand to learn from this. I think my overall point is that we can learn from our mistakes without playing the blame game over how they happened in the first place.
> Some people, after being exposed to misinformation, chose to believe them.

You missed my point :) Humans, being inherently limited, are always at risk of being wrong. Being wrong about things is the default state. I simply don't think that we should strive to expunge all forms of "misinformation". That is to say, of course people believe misinformation.

> Do you have evidence that the truth more often than not win over lies?

Ah, I see my point is easily misinterpreted. I find it very plausible (in fact, I outright believe) that "a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes". Rather, I think the implications of using that fact to justify suppression is inherently dangerous.

Furthermore I think truth, just like the concepts of agency and free will, are useful abstractions for us to operate under. But when examined in their totality, the concepts unravel. Thus I feel that truth is local, not global, and by acting like there is a global form of truth we are only forcing our local-truth onto others in the misguided belief that we can separate truth from our individualized local contexts.

Coming back down to earth for a second, the problem always remains: "who decides what truth is"?
Yup, this will just reinforce the idea that Mr Icke is "onto something" and that's why he needed to be silenced.
It's probably also worth mentioning the project is a work in progress, and from the videos, it looks like OpenDog is likely to undergo at least one more major change before "completion".
This will just shift this extremist content to other unregulated and unmonitored platforms that will not engage in debate, but blindly accept such things.

We already have this. It's called 4chan and 8chan.

And you know what? It's absolutely better to keep this shit to their echo chamber, where they have limited exposure, than Youtube, where they have a potential audience of billions.
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> I won't address that argument here but personally I think it's a very dangerous way of thinking

The problem is you’ve just said you won’t address the primary, most compelling reason to take these actions.

Assuming that “sunshine is the best disinfectant” presupposes a lot of things about society that are, in my observation, no longer true. We do not have the time, through our own actions or not, for quiet contemplation and retrospection into deep topics. We have polarized ourselves into camps of right and wrong. We are exposed to a staggering volume of information that all seems mostly the same with some slight differences but widely varying outcomes.

Your theory of how the world should work is very, almost simplistically, seductive. Woe but for the world to be like that, like the “perfectly rational actor” assumed in economic textbooks or the “perfectly smooth sphere on a frictionless plane” in physics.
I imagine it's folks like me who are baking now for no good reason but to pass the time. I previously didn't eat any bread. Now I'm getting fat.
Are you trying to tell me that charging my crystals is a waste of time?!
This is fascinating! If only subtitles for movies were filled in with the appropriate gaps waiting so that bilingual subtitles were equally aligned.
> Do you have evidence that the truth more often than not win over lies?

It doesn't. That's precisely why Icke's ban is necessary: he was incredibly popular.
I loved MGS and ZoE growing up. But revisiting them, I found the stories to be cringy teen crap. The kind of stuff that makes one think “how could I have liked that?”. Death Stranding is in the same league. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s marketed towards sophisticated adult gamers when it’s not really deep or meaningful. I love that his games exist, but in my opinion, if we really want to see gaming as something adults can do as a form of entertainment that communicates meaningfully, we shouldn’t look towards Kojima.
And the user I responded to called for acts of war, not the lesser responses you suggest.