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Yup--check out the follow-up thread. https://twitter.com/Zenexer/status/1265696063345786881

Me: When can we expect to see a fix? As of right now, there’s no easy way to visit the original URL.

Malte Ubl: I don't have a timeline. The share menu should help getting the underlying URL!

Me: I’m sure I don’t need to explain how this looks; regardless of your intentions, it comes across as a fairly hollow response. The issue gets a lot of negative attention on HN, someone from Google responds that it was just an accident and will be fixed, but there’s no fix.

Malte Ubl: Sorry, no way to do it in fewer than a couple days.

Me: That sounds like a timeline to me. :)
Not much to add other than I absolutely hate your company.
Yeah that's very "woke" of you for saying that but there's really no positive way to spin this. When a pilot, or flight attendant, or engineer has to retrain and possibly leave an industry they've worked in potentially their entire life that causes pain and suffering.

It doesn't surprise me that the HN crowd lacks the empathy to see the damage being done here, but say for instance someone told you couldn't code anymore, you lose your job, and you might have to pivot into another industry at a time when nobody's hiring and you don't even have the skills or training to get in the door. Then some pompous asshole online says "well ackchually this is good for the environment because computers consume energy and don't run off of the hot air I blow everytime I open my mouth"
Which talent? There's only accounting talents from McDonald-Douglas left. The technical talent was replaced with cheap labor from overseas long time ago. And then there are thousands of bean counters to control overseas labor. You really need those domestic bean counters, that's their speciality.
I've only lightly played with this so far, but it feels about what you're after: https://phasereditor2d.com/
I would fact check 4 only if it was posted by Trump or someone with a similar level of authority and following. As far as I can tell that's the only one that is provably false.
> There are people who advocate the idea that private companies should be compelled to distribute hate speech, dangerously factually incorrect information and harassment under the concept that free speech is should be applied universally rather than just to government.

The companies would also presumably have to allow commercial spam.
>like all publicly traded companies do not have medium to long-term views for their business

Why do people keep repeating this garbage over and over and over? It just isn't true.

Amazon literally didn't make profits for 10 years. Many other tech companies haven't made a cent yet, but investors are looking 5-10 years into the future for those.

Some businesses just make bad decisions, others make good decisions. Overall the free market/public corporation system is a resounding success. Just because boeing messed up doesn't say anything about the rest of the system.
So? The point here is the safety of it, plus there's research going back to 2006 about its effectiveness for other Coronaviruses. I mean do whatever you want to do, but there's a reason most people in government are taking it. In my country they privately take it, while publicly not endorsing it to prevent shortages
Airbus was the first company to use a large composite load-bearing structure on an airliner, the A300 vertical tail back in 1984.

Most of the A380 and A350 are composite, just put together differently to the 787.

Airbus also now have access to the most advanced composite lay-up technology, used by Bombardier Belfast to build the A220 wings.

The real pioneer was Beech, with the all-composite Starship; it took huge balls to release that on the commercial market, and sadly the gamble didn't pay off. They went back to building aluminium King Airs.
They need to also move all the physical capital that makes the place worthwhile and leave the place as scorched earth.

If I remember correctly, the HSBC building was actually designed so that much of it could be dismantled and removed from HK if the CCP handover did not go well. The only thing that would remain would be the large cantilevered pilons supporting all the removable floors.
That sounds really interesting. I’ll check it out!
You don’t need a vote to sell your shares and drive the stock price down, which executives absolutely do care about.
The problem is not with accountants per se but when accountants get promoted to executive positions. They will always run the business purely on a short term profit/cost basis, whereas operations and engineering managers who get promoted will know from experience that you need to spend money in the short term to make money in the long term.
NextJS might be open source but it's from a company (recently renamed do) Vercel, before known as Zeit.co, which has also a lot of VC dollars behind it's belt.

Microsoft owns github, npm, vscode, typescript...

I mean...
-- Sincerely, someone wasting time on HN who is probably working from home.
Wasn't the dreamliner a great success compared to Airbus's bet on the A380? (I.e. longer point-to-point routes won over giant planes with stops).

Boeing messed up the 737-MAX but I don't remember Airbus as a huge source of innovation recently.

But I'm no aviation buff, I'd be happy to learn more.
As a macos and linux user I’d say linux has the same problems it always had:

- driver support (even my thinkpad has an unsupported fingerprint driver, and a buggy intel wifi driver)

- fragmentation that affects user experience. For example, there is still the gnome / kde divide, and using a combination of apps from both is visually jarring.

- lack of microsoft and adobe apps, lack of high quality productivity apps (e.g. i would love a pixelmator equivalent)

- many paper cuts, like how copy and paste of images only works half of the time

- when things break, you have to drop down to the terminal to fix them, instead of running some automated repair wizard
We are still in the dick swinging stage.
"Who at Google decided to censor American comments on American videos hosted in America by an American platform that is already banned in China?"

Probably no individual. There are enough Chinese pro-nationalists using YouTube to generate noticeable signal if they all, independently based on their political creed or as an organized brigade, decide to start flagging posts. Once the flagging begins, the relative rarity of the characters in question combined against the flagging signal would generate a Bayesian prior that the word in question would tend to get flagged, and would preemptively start killing those comments.

This is one of the ways to train an automatic moderation system that is capable of discovering novel words the community decides are swears, and brigading is a known pathology that those systems are susceptible to.
There's a cost associated with this as well though. Those lower costs don't come for free - they come from increased efficiency which translates to fewer workers and less money being redirected into local economies.
Poland circa 1939 would beg to differ. I am not trying to be difficult, but your statement is easily countered.

edited: changed refuted to countered; seems more accurate
I wasn't going to post anything because of the direction HN seems to lean and because they get enraged about these sort of discussions. Hear me out and feel free to respond instead of shunning me out.

The bigger issue is these platforms only get those free speech protections because they're platforms. The moment they start editing content like this, they become editors to a publishing platform, and they should be held liable for all that they've published. You can't just have your cake and eat it too, today they make you happy to censor the evil orange man, tomorrow they may censor those you support.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We're seeing with YouTube that they're deleting posts against Communist China:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324695

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23221264

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23317570

Worse what happens when you cross Facebook imposing Chinese censorship on the whole world?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13018770

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12479990

What happens when Google is used to push liberal bias?

Vimeo deletes videos claiming such bias from Google despite clear evidence in video:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302010

"If we break things up, we can't stop Trump" replace Trump with any political candidate you've ever supported by the way to understand why this sort of thing is dangerous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20265502

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20697780

I am sure I will get into fire for this comment, considering my citations were flagged to death because people don't agree with others. But mark my words, if the tables were flipped and they were censoring all your favorite candidates, you'd be outraged and against anything that would hinder free speech.

If you take away anything from this post be sure to be this:

Twitter, Google, Facebook etc are considered "platforms" the moment they editorialize content, they become publishers. Platforms are protected for obvious reasons, they cannot reliably contain every single thing a user posts, but a publisher dictates what is published, and is definitely liable for what they publish. These platforms want to be hybrids, but that gives them dangerous power to push agendas as they claim they are trying to stop.
Most of those are typically reimbursed when you work from home, including office furniture and equipment costs. I admit that snacks would be a new expense, but I'm having a hard time picturing a compensation package where free snacks even moves the dial on your income.
> It’s a comment on the content of the article you didn’t read.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article.
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Pretty sure we caught it at the end of February just before things starting getting serious in the US. We had gone to an indoor water park for the weekend, and roughly two weeks later we were all sick with flu-like symptoms, but we all took a flu test and they all came back negative.
Considerations are being rolled back because the previous thesis of “as China grows economically, it will become more democratic” is becoming increasingly false.
It's not an outcome that public investors are incentivized to optimize for. That's the problem.
The (good) point was made that not a single "Masterclass" teacher isn't already a well known celebrity. Surely that is the focus of the appeal, not a happy coincidence.
The current big problem with online food shopping is that it's being done by sending low-wage people into ordinary supermarkets. This is inefficient, but until recently this was a niche market. The trouble with doing it that way is that the ordering system doesn't know the inventory. You get some subset of your order. That's no good.

Webvan tried to do it right 20 years go, with local fulfillment centers and automation, but they had 3% market share in 30 cities, instead of 30% market share in 3 cities. Cost per order was too high. The Webvan execs went on to Kiva Robotics and Amazon Fresh, and Amazon will probably try this again. They have the market penetration.
The name is just "Of course I still love you". They're named after vessels from Iain M Banks' "Culture" SF setting.

Culture spaceships have AI "minds" and the mind of a large ship-constructing ship will name its offspring. They tend to have an odd sense of humour, there are plenty of sites with lists of Culture ship names, and Banks wrote footnotes excusing the obvious references to 20th century human culture as matters of translation (e.g. there is an Offensive Unit named "I said I have a big stick" which is a reference to Theodore Roosevelt's "Speak softly and carry a big stick").

https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the...
Please don't conflate being realistic with being "woke". It sucks you've lost your job. Retrain or retire. I'm not without empathy, but America has chosen the lack of safety nets it exhibits. And I can appreciate the environmental benefits from the pandemic that we couldn't do ourselves as a species.

I would be a huge fan of Medicare for All and more robust safety nets resulting from this carnage, but I don't expect it. People are irrational and selfish in aggregate, and when times are good they are entirely apathetic to the political process. Only under duress do they scream "do something" to the people they've elected who actively do harm to their constituents' interests.
The obvious way around both of these arguments is to offer consumers more choices. If someone is censored from a particular platform, there needs to be another that they can use.

There are a tiiiiny number of companies that are controlling global communications, and that should make us all uncomfortable.

Being banned from one restaurant in town, should not mean you're banned from all restaurants in the world.
There are a lot of “shadow” voters on HN. One might speculate there’s voting rings, but given HN doesn’t allow a given user’s voting history to be public, impossible to audit it to look dark patterns, puppet masters, etc.
> My provincial government
Netflix, Disney+, and Apple TV+ have also realized that adding more language tracks to their content is a _must_.

My family's viewership of Amazon Prime Video is severely limited because they refuse to add Spanish audio to their content. They have a few Spanish-language shows and movies but it's slim pickings.

HBO has no excuse on this, imho. I _know_ they have Spanish audio for every single one of their shows and movies - when we had cable TV we could switch language track in seconds, and this is not counting their Spanish-language channel that played in Spanish by default.
Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
Two weeks ago @dhr asked the same question.
Any progress for those who posted something last time?
Any new project since then?
Yes, "Iran tankers sailing to Venezuela in effort to undermine US sanctions": https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-tankers-sailing-to-venezu...

This HK takeover by China is significant and the social media taunting that China is doing is not exactly peaceful: https://twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1265498343947542530?re...
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When Hong Kong went back to China in 1997, it was 30% of China's GDP. In 2019, HK was less than 2.5% of Chinese GDP.

HK has grown since 1997, but China has gotten so much richer that HK is now basically economically irrelevant to the mainland.

As far as the mainland is concerned, Hong Kong is now only a political issue.
I'm pretty sure that China isn't going to start flinging nukes over Taiwan. They lose more than they gain by any conceivable metric.
That wouldn't stop the problem, Communism, China needs beat back to an economy the size of Russia x2.
Dice they removed the 1-5 star reviews (to protect a fat unfunny Karen) the recommendations have been shit.
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> So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl … ...They didn’t read the contract.

I don't know that that necessarily follows. It could be that they read it, said "fuck that", and did everything else to spec. Good story tho.
If Trump can levy something vs Twitter then soon enough he'll be using the same mechanism to say fake news is censoring him when they report on what he's saying
In my experience, that's true of many specific hobbies--bicycling, sailing, gardening, etc. It's especially true of hobbies where purchasing ever-more-expensive things isn't so important. Hobbies like cars have more magazine-like and shopping-mall-like sites compared to less consumerist ones (although bikes can be like that too).
Before face masks, Americans went to war against seat belts
> US does not really have a problem with lack of autonomy

The Secretary of State is literally required by law to report to Congress on Hong Kong's autonomy [1][2]. The beginning and end of this issue is Hong Kong's autonomy (and how that relates to its special trade status).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States–Hong_Kong_Policy...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Human_Rights_and_Dem...
We are still planning our auth system, but this passwordless logins is something that is technically simpler than third-party logins, so I imagine we will. Feel free to create a github issue if you want to track our progress on this one.
My own website is starting to "revert" to this concept. A few years ago, it was primarily an about page and a resume. Now it has a blog, a links page, and a "knowledge base" that's mostly just notes for myself.

I'm too burnt out on web "best practices" to care about that for my personal sites anymore.

If you're curious: https://benovermyer.com
Delaying each subsequent pay period by one day is a way to save a lot of money and spread the pain out for employees over a longer period of time
So when 'fact checkers' end up with a right-wing bias will that still seem prudent? History is full of people in power, expanding their powers only to see their opposition use them more effectively against them.
That's a cheap excuse. The participating countries are known to have the best ties to the CIA. The others not so. They clearly want to avoid leaks, or punish them for their critical stance towards criminal practices.
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Great read! Good job summarizing everything!
Isn't there a downside here?

What if your content doesn't have enough views / you get bored / life changes so can't afford server costs anymore / die. Your server will expire eventually, and there goes your content. web.archive.org might have some sites archived, but many blogs won't have been archived so their content is just gone forever.

I've self-hosted many platforms, and many have died, perhaps due to running costs or lack of need anymore. It's partially why I'd never self-host my email, for example.

You can't know the future, and if your content is gone, it's gone for all of your audience (or potential future audience). Perhaps an ideal solution is some kind of self-hosted platform that mirrors content into a forever-public external repository, and hence preserves it, even if your hosting ceases to exist.
Essentially, yes. Besides China having sovereignty over the city, it has its own currency, government, different law system than China, a border with China, and different passport. In recent years on the rise of Chinese Nationalism, the Chinese government seems to downplay this a lot to eliminate the HKer's local identity and creates an image of HK = China. Culturally, it is also vastly different than China.
If someone does not make specific and testable predictions which turn out to be right, they are useless alarmists.

This conversation doesn't seem like it's going to go anywhere productive.
It was later referenced in a TF2 item description:

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Conjurer%27s_Cowl
So what do you use as an alternate email application?
In my experience at the executive level of a company this was never the case. There were always 1 year, 3 year, and 5 year plans in place.

Long range plans get re-evaluated periodically because things change, both technology and markets but I have never experienced them being either ignored or thrown out in pursuit of the quarterly 'numbers.'

That said, if your senior management doesn't understand all aspects of your product value, they will make poor choices both in the short term and for the long term.
> > The common man isn't expected to understand tariffs, international banking, military theory, computer engineering, social justice issues, and food scarcity.

> What better use is there of the common man's time than understanding societal issues like justice and scarcity?

Both of those can be true.
> Because, on average, the calculation for each individual does not line up with the calculation for society as a whole and people are going to make decisions that harm others.

Absolutely. But that's the problem with these thoughts. They're aren't wrong, but using them as a foundation for limiting a population can have an outsized negative impact worse than the thing they're trying to prevent.

In this case with hindsight we can now say it wasn't wise, as some states dramatically limited what items a person could buy, and some didn't. In some place you had "critical personnel" driving across state lines just to buy work boots.
Yep, that will be fun. Hopefully we will soon see the same hardware accelerators in laptops than currently existing in smartphones. I bet in the future, neural models will constantly run in background for some tasks.
I only go to store because it costs $15 in fees to order $40 of groceries/food
We should go one further and carve out a territory for a New Hong Kong and let them re-build there.
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Here is a great article that addresses the issue : https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing...

Boeing lost their way in the 90s when the MD merger turned them into an accountant-managed company whereas they were previously engineering-managed. The resulting 737MAX disaster is the main source of their problems today, not COVID.
> Most everyone will view crying as acceptable in some circumstance. Whether it’s death or a child, or loss of money, or deep frustration, everyone has a limit above which they consider the trauma a reason to cry.

And, as a flagged comment mentions, what we should be doing here is not so much as work shouldn't be a place that induces crying.

As for outside circumstances leaking in, sure, that happens, and it will continue to happen as long as workers are humans and not robots. Spouse got a terminal diagnosis? Totally okay to cry. Traumatized by bosses, coworkers, customers, _etc._? No, that shouldn't be happening. Using tears to emotionally manipulate people? That double shouldn't be happening. I don't know where losing sports teams fall on this continuum, but I'd rather not deal with tears in the workplace because some people I don't personally know didn't score enough points in a game.

This is not a men vs women issue, although I believe it's at least willfully ignorant to think that men and women can "get away with" crying in the same circumstances and at the same frequency. I have no idea if the author didn't suffer from his crying at work because of white male privilege or not, but, work is work, a business relationship, and crying is not conducive to maintaining a business relationship, IMO.
Focus on the last line...

> how do you lessen the spread of misinformation?

...and provide constructive content please.
Less military activity, air and otherwise, would be exponentially more effective. No one wants to kill their golden goose, though.
Here is the software engineering equivalent:

- golf buddy convinces CEO of well-run software shop: your company is way too inefficient "your per-employee ratios are off the charts low!"

- golf buddy gets hired as Chief Strategy Officer, hires a bunch of high paid underlings

- they decide the freeze wages, reduces bonuses, reduces benefits for software engineers. Lots of savings to show! (unless you also count inflated salaries of new management)

- Software engineers demoralized, best ones move on to better jobs, adverse selection, more demoralization

- Golf buddy hires more project managers -- because obviously the answer to underpaid SWEs is to hire more managers. Beatings will continue until morale improves.

- Now the company really does have bad metrics. Decisions are made to offshore half the staff -- save 30%, but increase work for onshore staff. Offshore staff is great, but at a disadvantage due to distance and not having context/proximity to business.

- Golf buddy hires product managers to better define specs, more project managers to produce more reports.

- Gold buddy, his friends, ride off with their big paychecks to spoil the next company