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> Nothing.... the President is not a king and can't order people/companies to de-exist and can't be above the congress....

You may want to read the article.

He's not saying Twitter "can't exist" (and why would he? It's his platform of choice.) -- it seems like they're going to say that if social media companies start editing content, they're no longer platforms and instead publishers, who can be sued for their content.

This could be very problematic for Facebook, Twitter, and Google, who would suddenly be open to a lot of lawsuits based on their users' content.
> The Oracle argument (and as things currently stand in their case, the accepted argument) is basically that the API taken as a whole can be protected even if each individual function name can't

And let's be honest, that does make some sense. We've all designed APIs that were particularly elegant and that we were proud of as something almost artistically beautiful. Surely APIs as a whole can constitute some kind of intellectual property.

I'm not sure if copyright is the right way to protect APIs, mostly because copyright lasts for an absolute eternity in software engineering timeframes. But I do think that there ought to be some protection against others copying an API (unless you license it e.g. as open-source), although interfacing with an API should always be allowed.
Re: voice -- yep, you and every celebrity -- it's already possible to synthesize voices from a small sample.

https://www.descript.com/lyrebird-ai

Alexa can already talk like Samuel L Jackson.

https://www.amazon.com/Samuel-L-Jackson-celebrity-voice/dp/B...

It's a risk, but to me it's also a part of living in this century. Human voice impersonators have always existed. When Photoshop became a phenomenon, everybody knew that photographs could be manipulated. SFX departments have always been able to produce fake scenes -- and now with deep learning, more people are able to do it (albeit somewhat badly). Not advocating that anyone feeds training data to voice assistants, but in the end it's a personal decision based on what you value.

For me, it's impossible to uninvent technology, so all we can do is to manage the risks.
These structures might very well have non-military (peaceful) applications for physics experiments involving sound...

Sort of like what observatories are to light... these structures might be to sound...
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Calling your employees "subordinates" is also a solid indication of the same.
That he's kind of a jackass sometimes.
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Good points and makes sense!
Using firefox doesn't address the fundamental problems of current internet business models and permissive web standards.

Chrome doesn't lock you in to google services. It shapes web standards to advance google's interests and protect it from standards that would interfere with its revenue stream. As Firefox must implement the Chrome spec, it's just along for the ride.
Yeah, that's the truly horrifying thing here. As others are pointing out, the EO itself is just theater, precisely because the actual first amendment of these companies and their employees protect them from the government (or have so far, anyway). To wit: Twitter has the same right to tell you the president is lying that the president does to speak via tweet in the first place.

The thing that strikes me is that the political tribe that crows about this stuff constantly, when faced with an actual attempt by the executive branch to control the speech of private entities... is absent.

Where is the HN libertarian debate squad now? Fucking crickets is all I hear. I despair for society.
This isn't about moderation, or removing tweets or banning people. Twitter changed the content of The President's tweet. When they edited his content, they became a publisher. Had simply removed it, I think they'd still be ok, but when they changed the content, they risked losing their protections under Section 230.
I’m very ok with that idea, personally. Let’s unemploy as many people as possible and pay them to be happy instead.
"Owning the libs": Politics is no longer about how best to manage the state.

It's about how to attack the vilified 'other side'. As long as Trump does that, he does no wrong with his supporters.

No longer a society discussing its management. More a cultural civil war. A country divided, weakened.
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I am starting a weekly newsletter with curated news from my hobby. I don't want to track anyone so I am looking for a solution that doesn't track and is as much privacy oriented as possible.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

--Frank Wilhoit
> everything from cleaning to child care

You cannot overstate the difficulty of putting in eight, or even six, solid hours of work in a day where you also have to coordinate your children's schooling, prepare meals, arbitrate disagreements, apply band-aids, do dishes, do laundry, supply technical support, and a thousand other non-work-related tasks. I was surprised that the article didn't mention this.
That works for iOS because it shares so much with macOS. It wouldn't work for Android as it doesn't share much with the OS.
Sure, but not to this degree. We are in perpetual war, excuse me, "targeted campaigns in the interest of National Security" because of the last two.
>This is just a narcissistic/rage hissy fits, or just another attempt to create noise and detract from the real issues of this country is facing now.

You don't think it's a problem that a platform which controls the information that reaches millions of eyes, acting as a mouthpiece for the president, applies a totally subjective "fact check" disclaimer based on an uncharitable interpretation of the president's tweet, while pretending to be politically neutral?

And while ignoring similar misstatements from other politicians on both sides of the aisle?

The issue here, and I cannot stress how dangerous this is for society, is that an entity which gatekeeps information for millions of eyes, is pretending to be a neutral party while overtly manipulating the messages of politicians from one political party.

This creates a manufactured consensus which is influences policy and elections according to the whims of a handful of high level managers/executives at Twitter. It's an abhorrent concentration of unnofficial, unchecked soft power and it was hugely irresponsible and unethical for Twitter to publicly pick a side without a massive disclaimer.

This isn't even getting into the holes in the "fact check". What a joke. How much hubris do you need to believe that your tech company can act as an arbiter of truth?
I'm a computer enginerring student and made a blog with LAMP stack along with WordPress and Divi theme.
I'm implying that twitter favor non-conservative viewpoints, tolerate them because obviously it's good for business, but do whatever they can, without getting caught, to favor more liberal viewpoints.
Politicians are trying to turn everything into politics. A politician was caught on a lie? The lie is insubstantial, because an accusation of a politician is politics by definition, isn't it?
You can also use Rust (and some big companies are - Cloudflare is shipping Rust on Android/iOS for their warp VPN, and Dropbox uses it in their desktop sync client (not sure if the same code is also used on mobile)).
it's almost suspicious.

I think of advertisers who create their own adblockers
Oh by far back you must mean like 2015..

Because for a long time things were interoperable. Many chat services ran off jabber/XMPP. You could easily use adium, pigeon, psi, gajim, and even the AOL IM and iirc yahoo messenger would all communicate interoperably.

In fact, you could even jabber chat with those using Google talk/hangouts until Google decided not to play. Before that iteration was usenet, IRC and ICQ.

Now you have WhatsApp, google chat or whatever it's called now, Snapchat, Facebook messenger, tik tok, zoom, kakao talk etc. But nobody wants you to leave their garden. And Because somebody popular makes a post using some platform, the masses rush there and doesn't leagu leave until they're told to by the new YouTube personality du jour.

So no, i tend to think in the process of millenialing chat services, they made them simple for them to understand, and kept them in the garden so they wouldn't get lost..
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You can connect to two Excel files together using Power Query. No need for Azure.
I've heard the US Navy is going away from screens; they were a bad idea, cause a lot of confusion and they're reverting back to analog switchgear because of the tactile feedback.

Ugly but functional might be the way of the future!
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The pushback about the Syria pullout was absolutely insane to me. If there was a conflict that was going to trigger a NATO Article 5 invocation that was it. Russia, Syria, Turkey (a NATO member for reasons that escapes me) ... it all had the feeling of a trigger point, and still people wanted us to keep lobbing missiles and sending troops to a conflict we had no business being involved in.
I’m not personally concerned with the rights of private businesses as much as I’m concerned about the unintended consequences of expanding government power.

And yes, that is a new position for me. These past few years have been quite the education about the downsides of federal power as a liberal.
> Apparently the antibody tests suck wrt accuracy.

Here's what I have posted here exactly a month ago, referring to the article from Guardian from April 4th:

--

The "false positives" are "especially significant with these antibody tests, so with the low numbers of positives it's extremely important to evaluate if the claimed values are more than noise artifacts of the tests themselves. It is also important to be aware of the scenarios for which the use of the apparent test results is not reasonable.

Moreover, here's what happened in the UK a few weeks ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/uk-government-...

"None of 3.5m home tests ordered have so far been accurate enough to detect coronavirus immunity"

UK got 3.5 million(!) unusable antibody tests.

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1449

"John Newton, Public Health England’s director of health improvement, said:

"A number of companies were offering us these quick antibody tests, and we were hoping that they’d be fit for purpose, but when they got to test, they all worked but were just not good enough to rely on.

“The judgment was made [that] it’s worth taking the time to develop a better antibody test before rolling it out, and that is what the current plan is.”

"Newton told the committee that the tests trialled so far had lacked sufficient sensitivity to identify people who had been infected. “We set a clear target for tests to achieve, and none of them frankly were close.”"

--

Since then, Roche actually made an antibody test which according to them, in laboratory conditions, doesn't have false positives. I haven't seen the independently done confirmation, but personally, I wouldn't use anything else.

There are still a lot of bad antibody tests in circulation.

Also, the estimate that the death rate is close to 1% was known since... seems like forever in this times: on Diamond Princess ship there were a lot of old people and the death rate was under 2% so adjusting to the population structure (where there are more younger people than on the ship) it was obvious even then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_on_D...

But it was also obvious that it's something like 10 times more deadly than flu.

What was also known is that once the health system is overwhelmed the death rate would be much more than 1%, and that is also what was observed in Italy. And that is the reason for having the goal of "flattening the curve": not allowing to have more cases than the whole system could handle.
I would. After all the attacks against them he has made, I would have done it a long time ago.
You should definitely use uBlock Origin as well then, as it completely blocks all search ads.
I wouldn't mind if I had someone to share the shack. Unfortunately, I'm very single now, but hope it won't be for long. Klong Dao seems a lovely place.
Head of Twitter's fact checking has a history of anti-Trump tweets
A good manager should be doing a lot more than just asking you for status updates in your 1:1s. At a minimum they should be:

1) Providing updates on things going on with the rest of the organization that may affect you. Technically this doesn't have be in a 1:1, but is often a good venue.
2) Learning more about any problems facing the team, and discussing potential solutions.
3) Giving feedback on both what the employee has been doing well and any areas they could improve.
4) Helping to set goals that will advance the employees career goals.

While you might be able to get everything done well with lots of autonomy, you're probably still leaving value on the table by not meeting more regularly.
>I'm not sure how much more embarrassed I can get for my country.

Just wait until tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that...
Uh... are "progressives" opposed to private businesses having rights?
I'm not sure most of them would, especially if it was Gab or something more obscure still. Ironically I think initially at least to get the message across he'd rely on coverage of whatever platform he chose to vent on coming from his other bugbear: mainstream media.
On the other hand, there must be a limit on the amount of "moderation" you're allowed to perform before becoming a publisher. If you start labelling content as misleading (but don't remove it) or even if you privilege certain content instead of another (for example, you privilege social media posts advertising a product because it increases your revenue) then you could be considered a publisher.

Let's put in another way: publishers used to produce content (as in select, solicit, remunerate) to further their interests (financial, but sometimes also political, or cultural). Now the big social networks don't need to produce the content, but they can tap into such an enormous amount of it that they can limit themselves to shaping it. Promote certain posts, reduce the visibility of others. The overall effect is the same. You could probably make Facebook or Twitter in a great cultural publications just by tweaking the algorithm that determines the visibility of the posts.
This is far too simplistic and cynical a view. You are not being charitable to people who have legitimate criticisms of WFH and I don’t think you can flat out claim WFH is more efficient across the board

Some legit criticisms I have of WFH (I’m not “anti” WFH, mind):

If you rely on colleagues/get blocked by them, they can go AWOL for extended periods and block you harder. Some people are straight up much less productive even if they don’t have kids in their house, probably because they need the structure or get distracted easily at home.

Meetings are more efficient ways to relay medium-large amounts of information than async communication like email/messaging. And video meetings are still quite awkward and may never be able to be as good as in person.

It’s much harder for managers to do their job (understand the state of the team and communicate that upwards, track progress, manage wellbeing, help where it’s needed) in environments that are more closed off.

I’m sure many people are more productive when WFH but it’s certainly not everyone. It’s not at all “too efficient”. I have directly seen how it harms individual and team productivity and communication
Check out hypothesis [0]. No fun styling but the same functionality.

[0] https://github.com/hypothesis
> How does this limit the free speech of private companies? Does a company have free speech?

Yes! And very broadly so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

(Which, as much as it pains me as a hippie liberal to admit it, is probably the best decision in context. Enshrining even things like corporate election finance as "speech" makes is VERY clear that government regulation of actual opinion on behalf of private entities is verboten. At the time none of us saw Trump coming, but if the price for protecting a twitter correction is a bunch of Comcast-funded PACs? Yeah, I'll pay that.)
Twitter stock 2013-2020 [1] vs. S&P 500 [2] supports your claim. My take is its a combination of political divisiveness in the US alongside larger influences (i.e. Trump) inflating audiences / ad. revenue.

[1]:https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWTR/twitter/stock...

[2]: https://www.macrotrends.net/2488/sp500-10-year-daily-chart
I predict that we'll see a lot of such special cases in the next years.
My first mistake I made as a beginner was dumping a bunch of binary data as text. Something would happen in the way and not the whole data would be written because I was writing it in text mode.

It just never appeared to me that the default mode of writing the file would _not_ write the array I was passing it.

It’s much more important for beginners to be able to learn clear recipes rather than having double standards with a bunch of edge cases.
I'll take a stab at it.

The government should only be as large as the entities threatening it's citizens rights.

The scale of "small" is relative, especially when dealing with large multinational corporations.
Are you saying that offshore shops in Ukraine/Poland charge $250/Hour for best candidates ? In that case, why would someone offshore it and not find devs in the US directly ? I am genuinely asking because the premise of my post was about finding the balance between cost savings and getting projects/work done effectively for companies that cannot afford to hire expensive devs in US.
> Here's how triggering UB ends up as a vulnerability

To be fair, dereferencing NULL ended up as a vulnerability due to

1. the optimiser removing the subsequent NULL check, and

2. the zero page being mapped.

While 1. may happen, depending on how sophisticated the compiler is, 2. was already a security issue and is 'almost always' not the case.
You’re barking up the wrong tree. I wrote “democratic,” thought it looked wrong as it seemed more the adjective of “Democracy” rather than “member of the Democratic Party,” didn’t want to look it up on my phone because I cannot multitask for the life of me on my iPhone, and there you go.

Anyway, you do realize that the very fact that I was linking to "here's what someone in a position to challenge or at least refuse to enforce this inanity" implies that I'm scarcely trying to side with the party backing the trigger-happy president, right?
Newspapers hire and pay people to write for them and exercise editorial control on everything that's published.

That's very different from, say, a public restroom where people write on the walls. The owner of the restroom is not responsible for what people write on their walls.
Removing a law isn’t the same as reducing governmental power. In this case removing 230 would make what goes on Twitter mostly a matter for the courts, which would be a massive increase in the governments ability to police speech.

The power and scope of the third branch shouldn’t be ignored, and “conservative” in the judicial sense is usually about reducing the scope of life that’s subject to the court’s control.
With CSS Houdini it's possible.

To draw these irregular lines / shapes with normal CSS it's really hard, maybe if you inline some SVG.
I suspect that jelliclesfarm is referring to subsistence agriculture. It's not "work for remuneration". It is still work, though, of the most backbreaking kind, and the work is still necessary to exist.

I'm with you: I know of nothing 100 or more years ago where work wasn't necessary to continue to exist (except among the wealthy, of course).
Piracy in 2010 was more polished than 2020's first party streaming platforms.
One thing bosses are looking for in subordinates isn't necessarily excellence but understanding. Do I know what choice they'd make and would they make the same choice I would when confronted with the same problem.

And the best way to figure that out is to get to know someone.

A lot of my promotions have been good reviews but some have been grabbing beers with the boss.
This is absolutely awesome. For example, searching for pokemon gives blogs from 2000 about the "new movie". Far too nostalgic.
> Most people, being well-adjusted social creatures, would feel very alienated if they are not in close physical proximity with the people they work with and depend on for their livelihood.

I would expect well adjusted people to have family and friends out of work and alto to work well with people who are not in close social proximity. The customers or other team are often in another country or at least city. I would not expect well adjusted people to be "very alienated" in work setup that is not exactly just right amount of social for themselves, I would expect them to be adjustable to both work at distance and in person.

Moreover, if someones ability to convince people stands on him being flippant and implying that those who disagree are inferior, it is really preferable to deal with them on distance.

Well adjusted people dont rely on implied insults to make the point.

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Well adjusted people also have responsibilities and duties out of work or hobbies. They need to help to aging parents or their children or tend to garden. Well adjusted people around me like the saved time from traveling to work and back, like more time with the family or fixed stuff in houses they had no time to fix before.

Preference for work from home does not mean asocial, it may just mean opposite - the work is not that persons sole social/emotional outlet.
IMO it's mostly syntactic convenience and elimination of boilerplate. The Kotlin collections APIs are more convenient than the streams APIs. Data classes are convenient. Nullability is significantly more convenient than Optional.

And you get all that even if you have to target old JVM versions for some reason.
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The past two years, I and my business partner started two projects (www.wingmanfc.com and affordablelaw.ng). These past two weeks I have been thinking of doing a simple one paged content website to be built with carrd.io and airtable.com . The website will chronicle lesser know productivity apps and softwares for entrepreneurs, coders and marketers. What do you think? Is it a project you will like to see?
> make the lives of other US citizens as miserable as they can

The main tool that populism leverages is anger. It is true on both sides of the political spectrum.
Yup still Demo mode the index is more than a few months old at this point. We're close to launching a beta with a much larger unrestricted index and a re-crawl strategy that keeps things fresh.

We've also changed our ranking methodology. The alpha / demo there was focused on novelty so if you search say "machine learning" you'd get repos that were recently active, starred and (hopefully) relevant to the topic, worth noting we also hard down-ranked repos that had been around for a while to let the smaller ones show through.

Through user conversation we moved away from focusing on novelty and moved onto "information staleness" the idea that elements in search results do not decay in relevance as quickly as they should based on real world events that happen around them. Happy to talk more about it if you want.
Being self-contained does not imply statically linked, though.

The benefit of dynamically linking is that you (as a user) or upstream (most likely) can fix those issues you point out, including future ones.

Being self-contained simply means updates aren’t forced into it, which is a good thing and I agree with it.

I didn’t downvote you, by the way, since the point you make is valid.
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