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> Would it be right to simply say, "if jwaldenbach doesn't like Zoom's polices, he doesn't have to use it"?

Yes.

> What is Western Union added a 'fact check' to your telegrams?

Don't use Western Union

> What if Google inserts a 'fact check' in your emails?

Don't use Google?

You don't have to use Zoom, you don't have to use Western Union, if you don't like their policies don't use their products.

Trump uses Twitter because he likes it but it's twitters own site! If they want to put 'Trump is a big orange fat dumb loser' under every one of his tweets they can, if they want they can turn it into the 'we love dogs!' site tomorrow, just replace the whole website with pictures of dogs they can. It would kill the company, but they can do it if they want.

I have no idea where this idea that Trump is being forced to use twitter and they're manipulating his free speech on someone elses website is coming from.
But it didn't. Same was with Twitter. Trump constantly was breaking their TOS a lot of people lost their access for much much less.
Yes, we're planning to implement some form of karma sharing. That information was in kick's reply to you upthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23342187 - see the first link there).

The reason for wanting to do that is incentivize finding good stories that haven't been posted yet: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Eradicating harmful insect species using CRISPR gene drives is so tempting. We could wipe out Medflies with it (without spilling a single drop of pesticide), and even more importantly, we could drive the mosquitoes that cause malaria/yellow fever/dengue/etc to extinction. There are a lot of worries about the side effects, but I'm equally worried about the consequences of failing to use it. There's a lot of attention paid to the 100k coronavirus deaths, and not to minimize those, but they pale in comparison to the equally tragic and preventable malaria deaths which go practically unnoticed.
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It was just an idea, each situation will be different...For instance, I normally know about meetings cuz the boss has me do the prep work for them :-P
I found the following video insightful:

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

It seems like an executive order is more of a guideline on how they interpret the law. He mentions that congress would need to make changes to the law for it to have teeth. He also said there will be lawsuits on the way.
Some types of Tom’s toothpaste have Xyletol. You just have to make sure you’re getting one with fluoride too, and not one of the useless non-fluoride ones. I Typically stock up when I find it.

There are other toothpastes with Xyletol too, but that’s the one I usually look for.
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That is not true. The same rules apply to everyone.

Here is a breakdown: https://imgur.com/gallery/wPsPtd7
You’re ignoring the point. The point is that, at that time, people hated it. Nowadays, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who hates jazz; they’ll recognize it as instrumental, but they won’t like it.

The hatred towards modern pop is the same thing. It’s just a fad. In 20 or so years, the younger people who like it will hate the pop of the 2040s or 2050s.
My first five minutes on an AIX machine involved trying to find a logfile to read...this is how I discovered 'errpt'; and the (new to me) IBM habit of giving certain cli output in all-caps. "Why is this machine shouting at me?"

I did end up liking it a lot, and I wish I had more of them. Once you set aside your expectations about what a unix should act like, it was kinda fun.
Chile as well.
The majority of all Android apps produced by Google are, and I have worked on one myself.
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You know well that it's not how it works in real life. Everyone would be afraid of repercussions to their business, kind of like the article we are currently discussing.
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Twitter is indeed censoring on ideological grounds, just not the president in that one particular instance. To say that Twitter isn’t restricting legal publishing of their users simply isn’t true.

I was quite surprised to find this EO rather cogent and fair and reasonable, and while I was poised to vehemently oppose it, having read it, I find myself in support of it. The arguments it makes are legitimate.
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It is... but it’s also something that web tech developers should probably pay a lot of attention to because it directly impacts what they build.

I’m very surprised how little discussion I’ve seen on HN about what this means for everyone here building public, community-building websites.
Put a FooHelper on it!
I think this is pretty good. I like the use of URLs as identifiers for your dependencies, just because it’s so unambiguous. I also like re-exporting deps manually.

My only real point of discomfort is how the runtime seems to be a bit too closely tied to the actual download and transport of these files/URLs. Like, importing from https implying all further imports are from https is nice, I guess, but is really stretching the browser metaphor imo.

I guess that is really my main point of contention, I agree with the security model but I don’t agree that websites are particularly analogous to code dependencies.
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HN readers are probably the most likely to copy and reproduce your product then spend 5x more on marketing and drive you out.

In true cynical form: Unless you are trying to either sell products to developers or are working on getting into ycombinator it seems like a terrible idea to pitch your idea here, the main benefit seems to be identifying competitors.

Then again, dropbox.
I used to hate open plan offices. I still do, but now a have a citable excuse.
> ask it to let one script access the file system, another access network and the rest of them run fully sandboxed.

this is actually quite a difficult problem to solve. You're balancing the security needs with usability.

Browsers have an advantage on this aspect, because they can make the assumption that the webpage does not require filesystem access.

i think fully sandboxed OS-esque security model is the only way this can work. Like on android, where each app sees only their own filesystem, and app-to-app interaction is done via a permission based system that the user has to approve.
> At some point invariably you'll discover issues with whether your code is running on the UI thread (and blocking the UI from updating while it runs, which is obviously bad), or running off the UI thread (and thus unable to update the UI elements)...

FWIW, this exact same issue comes
up in web development, only it is harder to spawn threads (in this case, web workers) to solve issues.
I used WordPress for many years. Recently, I experimented a lot with Jekyll, Hugo and Pelican, and settled on Hugo, hosted on a regular web host. I move files via sftp and a script. Right now I'm wiring it up to Emacs.

But I'm not convinced Hugo is the answer for me yet, and might settle on Pelican.
Some people are using autotune as a stylistic choice (for instance Travis Scott and T-pain way before that) which I think is kinda cool.
> Go is a better Java

Maybe off topic, but I highly doubt Go is better than Java. Have not seen anyone convert to it from Java yet. Most come from Python.
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It's the high school popularity game, with the entire world playing. I can imagine the Mean Girl behaviors being played out. Yea technology.
I hope people view this video, but I'm a founder + the CTO at Loom. I use video all the time to solve exactly this problem: maintaining an emotional connection with my peers in a remote context asynchronously. It's not 100% - you still need synchronous time, but it helps a lot.

I don't care if you use Loom, but, if you're on a team that is any % remote, do this for yourself + your fellow remote teammates. It goes a long way.

https://www.loom.com/share/81433d34e7584353921aae8e12b40844
Agreed, and it's disappointing that you got downvoted to oblivion for raising a valid point. There is an abundance of articles on parser combinators and grammars and other theoretical parsing concepts, and a dearth of articles (AFAICT) on actual practical applications or graceful error handling.

I suspect the difficulty of error handling or parsing a non-trivial language are exactly why few articles cover them. Crafting Interpreters¹ seems to be a notable exception here.

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¹: https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/parsing-expressions.htm...
I don't identify as a 'bro' and if that's a label you want to put on yourself, you'd better ask whether you have a right to call yourself a professional...

See how silly that sounds? To me 'geek', 'coder', 'programmer' are all compliments - I worked dam hard to earn those labels.

Geeks have a shared passion - Geek of Math, Geek of Law, Car Geeks, etc (look up geek code for some much better examples). A geek calling another person a geek is generally a compliment. An acknowledgement that they know what they're doing.

Coders and programmers were out in the trenches grinding code before 'software engineer' was even a thing.
I'm in DC Metro as well... and being from Idaho and going to college in Utah... the Blue Ridge mountains don't seem very mountain-like to me. Around northern Utah, the mountains are RIGHT THERE. You can see the snow at the top for most of the year and the skiing is excellent.

DC just seems a little boring after you visit the museums a few times. No skiing, the beaches are too far, etc.

Any fun ideas? I guess maybe my life is different having a family of four, but DC just seems like it doesn't have much of a real culture to me.
This page make me want to write some narratives about my own papers. Maybe I wouldn't release the narratives, but Lamport's page made me realize how much detail is lost to time. The context of the papers is interesting and maybe even relevant to the research.
I don't think it's fair to say it's pure populist though. A _huge_ portion of Spotify users don't actively select their music, they just select an autogenerated (or even manually curated) playlist to go in the background. So the most streamed will inevitably be songs from whichever record company has bought algorithmic favour from Spotify.
I generally with you. Do you have examples of towns that you think pull this off well?

Most towns I think of as pleasant in the US (I’m mostly familiar with western Massachusetts, central CA, and the border towns of NJ/PA) are still basically inaccessible by any mode of transportation other than a car outside of downtown. I don’t believe they would score high on your scale, but maybe I’m missing something!
Pretty cool, but it also looks like it relies on having an incredibly accurate map of the city. Does anyone know if there are autonomous driving systems that don't need that detailed of a map (e.g. just using Google Maps)? There's stuff like comma.ai but that's basically just lanekeeping for now.
Sometimes ideas are easy to find.

An idea? Okay: Setup a software as a service Web site to solve quickly all traveling salesman problems with fewer than, say, 1 million cities, and everything equivalent in computational complexity to them.

First difficulty: To write the server side software, basically are asking for an algorithm that shows that P = NP, and now we have had some decades to conclude that so far no one knows how to do that (with a von Neumann computer, but maybe could get a solution using a quantum computer).

Well, for positive integer n <= 1 million, consider the traveling salesman problem on n cities. Without loss of generality, assume that n is a prime number (with factors only 1 and n). Then embed this problem in ..., and notice that ..., and then apply ..., exploiting special case ...! Right!!!

Lesson 1: This idea was super easy to find!

Lesson 2: What it takes to make this idea work is something new, and, if we get a solution, that would contradict the observation that there are no good new ideas because all the good ideas were thought of long ago.

Lesson 3: Finding an algorithm that shows that P = NP is challenging, but with that algorithm would have one heck of a strong technological barrier to entry and a contradiction to the claim that it is easy to copy a startup!

My real point: Have two lists. List A has the problems that plenty of people would pay big bucks to have solved. List B has the tools for solving problems. Pick a pair from lists A and B where the tool from B solves the problem from A.

Next, if there is no suitable tool in list B, then do some research and find one. If can't find a tool for the problem from A, then pick another problem from A and try again to do the research to find the needed tool.

The research need not be as challenging as proving that P = NP. But broadly one way to find "good ideas" is do some research that yields a tool that enables solving a problem from list A that has been sitting there for a long time unsolved due to the lack of a suitable tool from list B.

That is, one way to find a "good idea" is to do some research.

If we are restricting to having von Neumann computers do the data manipulations, then we can notice that the manipulations are necessarily mathematically something so that an enabling tool and the research are about forced to be in applied math.

It might also be sufficient to use some of the math on the shelves of the research libraries, math that so far has been neglected by the information startup culture.

Possible psychological issue: It may be that we frequently see good problems to solve but right away, within a few seconds, implicitly, maybe even unconsciously, reject solving the problem as a startup idea because we don't see a suitable tool for a solution. Well, then, slow down a little on the rejection step and consider some research or just what is already in the research libraries. Uh, there's a lot in the research libraries!
Can you explain more? From what I understand, if you're already running a Flink cluster on AWS and you have capacity for another job, you aren't charged more, no?

I haven't used Glue, but it seems like it's able to do stream processing on Kinesis and dumping to S3 or whatnot, so it seems like there's overlap with using EMR running Flink?
Really? You believe doctor and nurses should be slaves? That they must meet the demand for unlimited health care and if there aren't enough of them we should force people to be come them?

There's a limited amount of health care to give because there is a limited amount of people willing to provide it. There is no concept of "right to health care" that doesn't require slavery.

You can argue for universal health care but arguing that people have "a right to health care" makes no sense.
I can't keep mine anywhere. I slides off my leg, my desk, the arm of my recliner, my center console, and my bed. I hate glass phones and I'm not 100% sure what possessed me to buy this one. I can't stand cases either, so I guess I'm stuck with it until it leaps to its death.
And here I was, thinking I was a damned fool for wanting to port Illumos to run on Power 9. Well, okay, I probably am still a damned fool for wanting such, but knowing that the Solaris codebase has run on Power before gives me hope that it might actually be possible.
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"Dapps were used a lot by a small number of people as of a few years ago (think the cryptokitties trend),"

Genuine question, were they? I've yet to see any data on the FREQUENCY of usage of these dApps. There was certainly a lot of buzz.
People use the same logic to accuse us of being communist agents and "totalitarian liberal thought policemen" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20438487). It always feels like the mods are against you.

Please drop the denunciatory rhetoric when posting here. It is tedious and does nothing for your cause except alienate people. It's what smart readers come to HN to get away from, regardless of what they agree with politically. Everybody here disagrees with some bits and agrees with some too, but that doesn't mean they want to spend their days reading boilerplate.

I think it's fair for there to be at least one place on the internet that isn't suffused with ideological copypasta. That doesn't make me a white supremacist misogynist bigot nor a totalitarian liberal thought policeman—nor a centrist milquetoast, to cover that base also.
Spotify is available in Hong Kong, so not sure why it's not reflected on the map. As others have said there is QQ music (Tencent/Spotify) in the mainland.
I never understood why they remove it
I don't want my coworkers touching me. :P
Twitter has every right to say what the truth is. It has the right to free speech as much as anyone else. It also will be held to account for its speech under the law.
I'm a big proponent of free speech, and have read a bit on the arguments against Big Tech censorship. One of the arguments against Google being able to selectively censor political content, despite being a private company, is that they could be classified as an essential service. I'm obviously getting information from sources opposed to Google's censorship, so I don't know if the wider legal community agrees with that view, but it's worth considering.

Another argument is that they have legal protections as content providers. However, the same protections don't apply to content publishers. If their censorship places them in the publisher category, they could open themselves to lawsuits. YouTube is an example that usually comes up. If a user uploads an illegal video, YouTube has protections against lawsuits. As a publisher, they would have more liability for the content they host.
Actually, the way it works is:

legislative branch - writes the law

judicial branch - interprets the law

executive branch - executes the law

FCC, FTC etc were created by legislative branch to make governing specific areas more streamlined, they are still bound by whatever legislative branch is bound.
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Sounds specific to your boss.

My team and I are mostly remote, doubly so since pandemic, we are all chatting and vidconfing with our boss and each other daily. It's a nice well connected environment.
What does this mean for Intel?
A genetic modification designed to spread through a population at higher-than-normal rates of inheritance, spread through a massive population of insects that act as carriers for many rapidly mutating viruses, and that feed on the blood of many different species?

What could go wrong?
When I was a little kid in Long Beach I remember some days we couldn't use the drinking fountains at school and stuff like that because they (city? state?) had sprayed for medflies that day. I have no details, it's just a childhood memory.

I had no reason to access that memory except that it's here on HN. As a kid I had no idea there was anything more to it, but thanks to this post, now I do. Neat.
Yeah, I just got a colleague a laptop because their kids are using theirs all day. I think most people do not have a computer per person at home... especially with younger kids.
Why selling these is so hard? There is a huge market for second hand bikes. I would think you can always get a better price than scrap metal for a functional bike. Any non zero profit is better than zero.
> That's unsurprising because GPT-2 takes a lot of hardware to run and I assume it messes with the economics of spamming.

GPT-2 doesn't require as many resources to run as you would expect: even from the 1.5B model, you can mass-produce passing spam comments for less than a dollar an hour in GPU costs: https://docs.aitextgen.io/tutorials/generate_1_5b/

Pure text spam in general is less effective in 2020; it's content that harder to fake (e.g. deepfakes) that shakes up social media, and why it's good FB/Twitter have proactively taken a stance against it.
"I think this is pretty much a human universal; the only exceptions I know are quite far on the autism spectrum."

So, you're a psychiatrist? How fascinating! I don't know any programmers who hold a psychiatry degree.
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No project management tool is perfect; some have lots of features but are complex to use while some are simple but lacks features.

In your opinion/experience, what pain points you wish a project management tool would solve for you?
Agreed. An example of this would be the mention of rival engine Unity in part 6:

"But Unity, the most widely deployed engine for small/mobile games, deploys a flat “per seat” fee for its engine. As a result, for users with a Unity Pro license, even a game with $1,000 in revenue would generate revenue for the company."

This is inacurrate, in fact Unity previously waived these fees for the first few thousand dollars of revenue earned, and with their current plan it looks like licencing is free of charge for dev generating less than 100k/year.

Source:

https://store.unity.com/compare-plans

https://unity3d.com/unity/faq
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I don't know if you would even need a big one. There are definitely shipping container ships that have huge decks that are more than enough space. I think if you have a decent margin around a helicopter pad you might even be able fit the octagon, cameras, corners and judges.
Ex-government auctions have stuff occasionally. When I used to live in Canberra every two month or so one would be advertised could get lots of old hardware for dirt cheap. Mostly old Sun Sparc stuff but sometimes HP or IBM power based hardware too. I imagine Sydney would have similar auctions.
With WSL2 being a full(-ish) VM, running Android on a Linux base might be interesting (especially when using a Linux host, see the other anbox comment). Not sure how to deal with macOS though.

And yeah, as of Android Studio 3.x (was waiting for the official 4.0 release), it was trying to nudge towards using the Google Play Services images pretty hard.
In the specific case I have in mind, there was a business process that involved multiple pieces of the application being used to accomplish a task (creating database entries, etc.). Prior to my inheriting the project, this had been done in an ad hoc manner using the REPL and was not documented. When I had to try to run this process myself, I had nothing to go on.

This is absolutely the result of poor practices and, documentation aside, if the developers had been using tests to drive out this behavior, I'd have had a sort of playbook that I could reference.
If you take the time to dive into the source on may of these, you'll end up seeing so many strange things.