skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Total censorship doesn't happen overnight. The gates slowly close little by little.

Let no good catastrophe go to waste. With each, we lose a little freedom and the populace resounds in joy. Not because they want less freedom, no, it's because they think they've triumphed over a common evil: the dissenters. These cycles always include labeling the enemy, and it's usually the ones who disagree or challenge the state.

The common man isn't an expert in virology, world politics, or terrorism. Yet, if you look at the ones upholding and defending the position of the state, they're just laymen. Their opinions are fiercely held without question and expertise.

All you have to do is label the enemy, make that label an adjective that the average-person would reject at first glance (conspiracy theorist, extremist, etc.), then assign that label to anyone who dissents from the state's position. After that, it's just policymaking for the "greater good".
The low level "what makes it all tick" of calculus is known as analysis, set theory and the topology of the real line, and is the subject of upper division college math classes. The stuff about "infinitely small pieces" is a mnemonic made to help you remember and intuit the tools of calculus.
How do new hires get trained remotely, and will it be as effective? It's a problem I just thought about.
> These types of censorship patterns are identical to that employed by China in intent. The practical consequences are the same as well.

They're not identical, the state doesn't determine YouTubes actions.
Use a library... Spring Cloud Stream for example lets you connect to topics, create consumer groups, have automatic dead letter queues, etc etc... Why would you use RabbitMQ in such a manual way? Even in Python there's the Pika library for easy consumption of Rabbit
We are currently with unemployment doing a great UBI experiment. Lots of people are earning more with unemployment than before. The benefits are only a year, but I'm willing to bet these people take their time finding work if it means a pay cut.

California is a perfect place to test these sorts of public welfare and social safety net initiatives. It's the 5th largest economy in the world, and medi-Cal already covers a third of the population, it only need be expanded.
> You've made a calculation: my value to the company is greater than $150K, and $150K is a price you're willing to pay to leverage that value.

Part of that value calculus was that you are willing to relocate (or already reside in) the Bay Area. In other words, if the company offered only $90K and still required you to live in the Bay Area, you and most other qualified candidates would balk at the offer.

> The only thing that changed is where I choose to reside. What difference is that to the company?

Clearly the company is betting that if you walk away instead of accepting the pay cut, they will be able to find another qualified candidate among the now much larger talent pool they are able to court with remote work.
Obviously the voluntary actions people are taking is having an effect on the economy. But when you declare that entire sections of the economy are illegal ("non-essential"), then this has an even bigger impact. Now businesses that could have tried to stay open with certain precautions are simply out of business. This puts even more people out of work.
You are creating a straw man argument. You have inferred too much about my beliefs based on my incredulous responses to your bad faith comments. You are debating with me, but I'm not debating with you.
Would you say that if Grandma released a commercial documentary containing images of people that she hadn't gotten consent to appear in the film?

Likeness rights are likeness rights. Nothing to do with free speech. For IP law reasons, people don't have a right to distribute pictures with your likeness in them, unless you explicitly grant them that right. (If things didn't work this way, the modelling industry would collapse.)
I still maintain a gopher presence[1] as a mirror. Once it was determined that gopher could neither be monetized nor weaponized, it was doomed to obscurity. It is an open academic tool for open academic purposes. As an aside, I actually saw the initial announcement on USENET about CERN releasing something called a browser for something else they called the World Wide Web. I couldn't see the point since we already had gopher, veronica, jughead, et al. Absolutely prescient on my part...

[1]https://gopher.commons.host/gopher://gopher.club/1/users/eve...
It's a gamble - either 2 will lead to 3, or 2 will lead to input and output prices of goods being raised. Probably some of both.

Hopefully more of 3 than the alternative, because the alternative scenario of prices rising has negative consequences in the form of economic deadweight loss even if UBI pays for the price increases.
So do you just have a problem with people posting photos of you on social media, or even just having photos with you in them for their own memories? It seems like your critique would apply equally to both.
The headline of this is so clickbaity in making it sound like some little old grandma posted pictures of her vacation and big evil government made her remove them.

She posted pictures of grandchildren against their mother's wishes. She's just being selfish, and the fact that she's a grandmother isn't really germane to anything.
There are lots of website and apps where renaming the file is the best solution for an enduser, because of systems that are the counter part of this that limit the option on the frontend but allow it on the backend.
There’s no reason why any system should care about a file’s extension type. It’s meaningless.
Hate speech is free speech in the US. SCOTUS has ruled on this many times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_Stat...
It's just bizarre. The scrolls didn't do any revealing! The people did!
University of London offers online B.Sc degree in computer science
It is only suicide for in-company promotion tracks.

It has no effect on your career if you learn to not depend on in-company tracks for your success.
Sure, if you think human beings should be treated like disposable gadgets.
They didn't for me - it meant my SO would wake me up after they'd been woken up.

I then started wearing headphones to bed so that I would hear the phone ring and not disturb them, but when you're rolling out of bed and hopping on a call at 3AM it's difficult.

What I seriously underestimated was the strain that being on-call can put on a relationship, it's a massive regret.
I would have assumed that most of the work at The Atlantic is knowledge work that can be done remotely, so there would be no reason to furlough.
well FB just announced that engineers keen on moving out of CA will get salary adjustments. Itd be silly to think you can move to rural Idaho and keep your 500k/yr TC
This feels like a "welp we need to cut some pay, let's see who takes the bait".

Cost of living should not dictate your value to the company. If you're an engineer supporting x number of users worth y dollars, it literally does not change what you bring to the table whether you do the job in SF or Birmingham.

Yes, they could hire cheaper in Birmingham, but they can't hire _you_. If you have a proven track record of doing incredible work, then you should be paid accordingly. What you pay in rent/mortgage/etc is none of the company's business.

I would argue that if you're a SWE and you go along with this, you're complicit in the wage fixing that this industry has had to grapple with for ages now. Demand to be paid what you're worth or walk.

(And yes, I get that some people can't afford to be choosy. Those of us who can, should be, though.)
Probably anything involving "I'll plant your tomato/vegetable garden for you" would do very well right now in the right places.
I have difficulty believing that UBI will ever work, unless you get the basic problems solved first.

Namely, housing.

The problem actually boils down to democracy itself, where people vote for laws that favors themselves, and excludes outsiders, specifically the NIMBY crowd. These are the people that vote in housing regulations, environmental review injunctions to prevent construction, etc.

Regardless of whether UBI is given freely like welfare, these NIMBYs will continue to exist, and they will act as a corruption on society. They got theirs already, and they will prevent others from getting it too.

For all other things, technology should be able to help make things plentiful. Food can come from mechanized and automated mass farming. Medicine can come from mechanized and automated mass production. Clothing, cars, consumer goods, well, I guess there are factories in China that can mass produce that.

But either way, unless you solve the core problems first, then UBI is dead in the water.

Otherwise, with the low interest rates, and massive corporate stock buybacks, then this will just continue to inflate the stock market, and property bubble, and other asset prices.

Then, what is the end result? The rents will continue to rise, and it will just eat away at your UBI. Now, we’re back at square one.
After 20 years working from home... I honestly feel I have my 'perfect' home office environment. Some things that have really made a difference:

USE SEPARATE COMPUTERS FOR WORK AND PERSONAL STUFF
If you can swing the space/money etc - this is the
single biggest (best) change you can make. It SO
much easier to focus when all your favorite stuff
isn't staring at you on the desktop!

Create separate profiles with separate shortcuts
for personal and work browsers (per-client if
needed). Much easier to resist 'tab roulette'
if you have to open a separate program to do it.

Don't keep a radio or TV in your work space. If
you like music while you work - use local
playlists or streaming services that won't
inject 'news' or ads into your music. Its really
easy to hear some news tidbit and spend 20 minutes
reading up on it. Or you might hear an ad that
sends you off to see if it's really a good deal.

I prefer audio calls over all other formats. If
you 'chat' you usually only get half of the other
persons attention, and its just much lower
'bandwidth' then spoken word. The current video
craze just ends up with people 'playing' with the
new 'toy' - wasting time talking about their new
background, filter, or the home reno project in
the background.

I don't share the worlds fascination with cell
phones - I basically never check mine. It
probably has 5 years of unread voice mail on it.
(I just use it for 2FA and lyft). However, if
you require a phone for checking websites, etc.
Get a dummy phone, and leave your personal phone
in another area. (Do NOT install social media on
the dummy phone!)

Make sure your chair supports you properly. If
needed you can improvise back/butt support with
those airline neck pillows (place them backwards
with the opening in the back to prevent sitting
on your tail bone). You can also use inflatable
'donuts' or towels if need be. If possible,
get a 'real' office chair with full ergonomics
(can be really cheap at used office supply stores)

I find a good over-the-ear wireless headset great
for both blocking out random noise (leaf blowers,
lawn mowers, whatever) and use in voip calls.

I'm blind as a bat, so I have 3x4k monitors with
huge font sizes and dark themes with high contrast
This allows me to work with a lot less eye strain
while still keeping 3 full size windows visible.

Ugghh..this is getting really long...
time for a smoke!
I love working fully remote, but in the past month my job has become my entire life. Maybe that's because I can't leave the house, but I do fear that could stick. With employers expecting employees to be available constantly. Even more so than now/5 months ago.
>Gif isn't a name, it's an acronym

Those aren't mutually exclusive.

>You will not find an english word that starts with "gif" with a soft g.

If I was going to make a post with an assertion like this, I'd pick up a dictionary.
I'd guess the hairdressing and restaurant industries (for starters) would not agree.
> other than pushing an agenda?

Are you naive? Do you think this publication, or any publication, is completely unbiased? You must have a journalism degree :)
There are plenty of opportunities already for these people. It's just hard to force yourself to go to them. This is an incredibly optimistic view, it is far too easy to become complacent and not leave your house.
Especially for young people, who for the last 16 years were basically forced to go to class and interact with peers.
I'm a new(ish) grad and I really enjoyed getting to know some of my younger coworkers, and we hangout outside the office. I would have never reached this level of friendship if we only knew each other via slack and skype calls
The people I talked to described a massive ObjC monorepo (Instagram). Not sure about the FB app, but you guys did invent React, so I suspect that platform-dedicated solutions are not high on the guest list.
A part of me feels bad sometimes cause I doubt I'm good enough for some FAANG company...then I read stuff like this and I think, yah, ability or no, I don't think I'm type of person who would want to partake in this culture.
I'm in a big city, but my company is fully remote. My salary is already on the high end for my city.

I see a lot of people concerned about wages going down. I suspect wages will go UP for most people as we're no longer trapped working with companies in our cities. There might be some slight downward pressure at big tech as people leave the bay for less expensive locales and are willing to accept less money to work at those companies if they get to stay in, say, Texas or other cheaper locales.

But in my opinion this is the greatest opportunity for workers in history - your options for employment are now unlimited. Companies are going to have to compete a lot harder to get the best talent when they now have to compete with every other company in the world. I've seen some suggest that the opposite would be true - companies can now get employees from anywhere. While true, companies have always had more power to hire from wherever they want - it's always been much harder as an individual to pick up and move your family across the country. You'll probably find it easier to get remote contracting work, too.

I expect this will cause some downward pressure on bigger city property values. Might cause a slight uptick for smaller cities and suburban areas. Rural areas might not have good enough internet yet and are spacious enough that they won't be very affected.
Always two sides to the same story. As a software engineer, of course I think I should make the same regardless of I'm on-site or remote. As a founder, of course I'm not going to pay someone who works on-site vs. remote the same. It's a never ending debate.
You gonna seem tech apps that allow that type of discussion sooner than you think.
Seems like the unending stream of "orange man bad" in place of actual reporting is starting to get really, really old. And to be fair to their owner, if that's going to be the editorial policy going forward, you could do it with a lot fewer people.

If you go to their front page right now, approximately half of it is "orange man bad" in various forms, with an article shitting on Musk for his "red pill" tweet thrown in for good measure.
Perhaps "Seems much simpler than patching" was an ambiguous statement. I was only referring to the perspective I take as an admin for one user: me. I already use softlimit on a daily basis so it is simpler for me than patching. To me, it seems like a cleaner solution. The two complete mitigations presented were a choice between (a) using softlimit and the -m setting used by qmail's author versus (b) applying a third party patch to fix problems caused by another third party patch (qmail-verify, which was an "upadte" of yet another third party patch) and third party configuration settings (Debian). I thought that was noteworthy.
I've got a feeling that it'd probably be even easier nowadays.
I remember when I came to London about 10 years ago: no money,no connections, nothing.Went online to check some jobs just to see some ads with 200+ applications.. Printed my crappy CV,a list of a few agencies and started going from one to another. Managed to get a job 4 hours later..
>Why should ad companies be forced to subsidize the spread of bullshit and hateful content?

They are not forced to do anything. They can always NOT advertise.

What I propose is not forcing them to subsidise anything, it is about taking away from them the power to dictate terms to platforms.

Moreover, the "bullshit and hate" is your strawman.

Traditionally, and I'm not some Gen Z to not remember this, it has been the right that was pushing advertisers and platforms to assist in censoring tv shows, music videos, records, etc with non-approved messages (pro-gay, anti-religion, pro-choice, etc).

That the tables have turned for a while doesn't mean the tables will always be this way (we're already 4 years into Trump for one), and I don't even believe the tables have turned as in "it's just bullshit and hateful stuff that's demonetized". I think that all kinds of good content is demonetized all the time, both left and right wing.

Any cause you personally might like can easily be labeled "bullshit" and or "hateful".
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
1. I'm not going to argue about Apple's defaults here. It simply isn't germane when the college board has full control over the inputs and iPhones will make up a significant portion of test takers.

2. I think you don't understand what the College Board is. It's a single organization that administers test. This isn't something each university needs to deal with. They make and administer the test to all college-bound students in the US each year.

3. There are plenty of existing open source decoders, and all major open source graphics programs already accept the format (GraphicConverter, ImageMagick, GIMP), in addition to all the major OSes (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android).
> MS asserts that only data needed to keep the machine running and secure is collected (i.e, updates)

I think this phrase is going to be a contentious point anyway. Microsoft doesn't need any telemetry to "keep the machine running" - as trivially evidenced by me pulling out the Ethernet plug, disconnecting the wireless adapter, and booting up Windows 10. The OS will run just fine. As for keeping it secure, it depends on how much you stretch the word "secure". I can't see any reason why telemetry would be needed to deliver updates (Windows could just download the list of available updates and request the ones it needs). You could argue telemetry is needed for malware detection and mitigation, but that can be stretched to justify everything up to and including uploading snapshots of your hard drive.

I'm guessing "needed to keep the machine secure" is how we've arrived at the rather absurd situation in which Windows Defender is automatically uploading executables it finds on the machine, to have them tested on Microsoft servers - which has been demonstrated to be a neat vector for exfiltrating data from secure corporate networks: the malware can just encode the data it collected into an executable and write it out to the file system, at which point it gets picked up by Defender and uploaded to Microsoft (which corporate firewall will most likely allow), where upon execution it connects to the attacker's server and delivers collected data.
How so? Both are private properties.
They may not have actually sued, just threatened Microsoft with an audit.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.#Browser_wars
> It would genuinely be tough problem to educate people to not spend their basic income, or to design a system where it's clawed back through paycheques.

We can use the system that we already have, that is, income tax. It has worked fine for quite a while.
Thanks for the help and advice even if it's just reconfirming the understanding.

There's more to it indeed as you guessed.
Parents usually have plenty of extra-legal leverage. That's why such a "case" wouldn't go to court, just as a dispute over the chaos in the child's room wouldn't. Application of that leverage is called "parenting". :-)
> But YouTube is not deciding on the credibility of the video. They are simply saying that in this emergency, in the interests of public safety, they will not allow videos that contradict World Health Organization information and policy guidelines.

No, YouTube still is determining credibility. YouTube is still saying, "this video is misinformation and we are removing it." The fact that it's treating the WHO information as the baseline does not change the fact that YouTube is deciding credibility, and removing videos that do not meet it's criteria for credibility.
I think small team and good manager/team lead will mitigate this.
We're a remote-first company and went through this same discussion when we began hiring people in different cities, not just in the USA but all around the world. What we found is that any approach to setting salaries has to balance the following factors:

* Pay people enough to live comfortably

* Pay people enough that they accept our offer vs competition

* Pay people in a way that feels fair

* Pay people in a way that is transparent

* Pay people in a way the company can afford it

* Pay people in a way that there isn't a risk of huge fluctuations (e.g. currency fluctuations)

Without a doubt the best solution is to pay every employee as if they live in San Francisco, what we call "single-city." That gives high marks on every dimension above...except that it's extremely expensive for the company. Basecamp.com can afford this but I doubt most companies can.

We ultimately went with a formula where we look up the average salary for your title in NYC (the USA's most expensive city), multiply it by some multiplier (to make sure we pay systematically above market), and discount it by the cost of living in your city compared the cost of living in NYC.

When we can afford it, we'll move to a single-city model based on San Francisco.
Walmart is not ubiquitous in terms of property the same way Youtube is in terms of streaming video. If you want to protest you can easily avoid Walmart. Likewise if you want to publish a book you can easily avoid Walmart.

If you want to communicate to a large audience with streaming video in the US (and many other nations), it's Youtube or nothing unless you have an already established audience (which you probably established on Youtube).
Isn't it more like

Government orders businesses to close => restaurants, concerts, stores are closed => people can't eat out, go to concerts, buy stuff => major economic pain for the service industry
"I work for Silicon Valley Inc, NameOfCompany division"
StatCounter shows the number of folks who visit sites with StatCounter on it.

Fun fact: iOS users generally do more browsing, so this has a tendency to skew stats like StatCounter.
You're not being paid based on your value to the company. You're being paid based on the minimum they can pay you to get you to work there.

If you move to Tulsa, you're minimum goes down because they know there are fewer opportunities for you to work in Tulsa.

As remote work becomes more prominent, then your salary would probably go back up as there will be more jobs for you in Tulsa. But it probably won't go back up to SF levels because everyone else has that opportunity too.
Thanks. I'll look at these.
Mostly, I use Canva to design and marketing related design and graphics.
I can't help but wonder if there is a generational divide occurring in these censorship debates. Some contributors to the discussion seem to believe that everyone has a natural right to post a video and have it available to (if not see by) a global audience. As someone who grew up in the 1980s this is a strange point-of-view to me, but I can see how it might feel more natural to someone who came of age in the 2010s.