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Less complicated systems successfully reason about more complicated systems all the time. Ditto for self-reasoning. See: bootloaders, update systems, and package managers.

In order to prove that some kind of meta-cognition is inherently beyond our grasp, you don't just have to prove that the system we are attempting to reason about is more complex than ourselves, you also have to prove that the problem isn't meaningfully reducible. Otherwise we can and will eventually figure out the mental tools we need to tackle the problem, and tackle it.

The same applies to brute physical strength. Humans have no problem building machines vastly stronger, tougher, larger, more precise etc than ourselves even though narrow-minded reasoning might lead you to believe that this was impossible ("a tool can only cut something less hard/strong than itself," "a ruler can only measure less precisely than itself" etc).
It also doesn't help that the electorate that votes in local sherriff races is a biased sampling. Heavily skewed toward older white homeowners which exist in a minority in every city, but nonetheless dictate local politics because they are the only people who vote in these races.
Nintendo has had a... weird relationship with textiles. There was also the Nintendo Knitting System: https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=279935495445300
> If the protesters can't regulate their own bad apples then how can they judge police for not being able to?

Police are hired by a system, trained on constitutional law, trained in law enforcement technique, take an oath to enforce the law (including the constitution and the public trust), are paid money for their on duty actions, and have a system of discipline and internal review.

What the protestors have in common right now is that people showed up at a place and at a time. Protestors have a right to assemble, they inherently have little right to inhibit an anarchist from protesting at the same location without breaking laws or even a holier than thou ethics. That the press have captured intentional subversion by white supremacists, boogaloos, and even police furthers this false dichotomy.
> Ever been to r/science? 8/10 comments are deleted and those posts can't be read ever again

Note that this is clearly spelled out in the subreddit rules, and is by design. 8/10 comments on reddit as a whole are jokes, anecdotes, off topic, or simply low quality. /r/science tries to promote high-quality discussion of actual science, does so by heavy moderation, and doesn't pretend they're not deleting most comments.

Personally, I am very happy all the cruft is deleted there.

I'm not saying there's no abuse of power, but /r/science is bad example to put forward when the rules are clearly spelled out and enforced.
I think the best way to filter/monitor social medias would be to:

A) Keep the core platform as open as possible, almost like a protocol (I.e. http doesn't care who says what.)

B) Build/invest in community-driven monitoring tools that users can select to filter the content.
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The plant closed because Ford decided Americans don't want an American-built sedan this decade, to great shareholder applause, and GM was forced by activist shareholders to follow suit. The Gen 2 Volt was a sedan in the sedan plant. It had nothing to do with the Volt itself and everything to do with killing the Cruise, with the Volt merely a casualty.

(The Gen 1 Volt was a hatchback intended to push the Hamtramck sedan plant away from being entirely sedans. A huge mistake with the Gen 2 was sedan-ifying it to cut costs at that plant rather than moving it to another plant or following the original Gen 1 plan to move Hamtramck to mixing in more "light cross-overs".)

> That's never a good argument, GM Marketing is never going to issue a statement that contradicts it's actions.

Who said anything about GM Marketing? I'm talking about GM Shareholder reports. It's an arm of marketing, sure, but with the activist parasites chumming the GM Shareholder waters, their Shareholder reports have been quite honest.
Yes, although I would argue that it's amplified by foreign and internal actors. It is their election year after all and 99% of US media has spend the last 4 years doing its best to destabilize the country.

The other alarming aspect for other countries should be that this is quite likely a preview of what other countries will see. The unemployment numbers are awful everywhere and as the programs enacted come to a halt things are probably not going to get better.
If you consider KIA, unpopularopinion and making fun of TLOU2 as vile then I'm not sure what that word even means.

plus: There are regular calls to murder all cops these days on reddit. In plain sight. Just imagine what would happen for any of those "bad" subs if they wouldn't remove those within seconds.
I’ve seen firsthand how blaming outside circumstances for mental health can be damaging. Both for myself and others. It’s very tempting to blame lack of happiness on your job, where you live, your partner, or an upstairs neighbor who rearranges their entire apartment at 2am. In most cases (not all) these were misattributed.

Also I think your attitude is unnecessarily defeatist. So what are you suggesting instead, that rather than attempting to build healthy habits, depressed people should give up?
I am proposing that the clerk should assign the severity.

You could have the programmers do the prioritisation, if they had the business understanding to do that. In that case, they're also the boss. The severity assigned by the clerk could still be a useful starting point.
Why the Hell Do I Own a Copy of the Fountainhead?
That's a really extreme example, it doesn't seem to track with hate speech because in that scenario said poster is looking to not get flagged, in you scenario this operation would result in death and subsequent blow back on which is not what the poster would then want if they tried to post hate speech. By this logic the poster wants the flag because that limits any consequence on them not the other way around.

How about this, two people post the same molesting accusation. One of them has a hat that you don't like so you flag his post. The other one doesn't have that hat so they get a pass on the flag. Following what I believe to be a more clear assessment of the situation, the non-flagged other flavor of hate speech survives to do damage, the hate speech of the hat guy doesn't. This bends the narrative away from the guy with the hat and warps it around to the guy you like. Why isn't this a problem?
It doesn’t hurt much, but it doesn’t help much either, especially for web applications. If the user cannot trust that the server doesn’t do bad things with the password, they also cannot trust the javascript hash function sent from the same server, so it does not protect against the scenario discussed here. And it is no substitute for an encrypted connection.
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I think the real problem facing the reddit corporate folks is that people on that site are slowly but inexorably coming around to the realization (if they aren't there already) that what makes a site good from the user's standpoint is pretty much antithetical to making it profitable.

Unfortunately for reddit, the site owes its existence to the users who built communities there, and when heavy-handed changes are introduced in classic reddit fashion (invariably user-hostile changes with little to no advance warning nor recourse), the users rightfully feel their senses of ownership being offended.
There's no need to wonder: yes they are exempt from punishment and oversight.

It doesn't matter what laws they break because it's pretty clear that the executive branch has no intent of abiding by any laws; they won't do so unless forced and clearly no one has the power to force them to do so.

I have no idea how this will end, but I'm fairly sure it won't involve justice for the people.
Alex has stood by and defended years of Reddit bad behavior. Doxxing, openly racist boards, planning raids, targeted hate campaigns, pretty much everything you'd expect from an unmoderated online forum. And he's supported the moderators that support those forums. Hiding behind the false cries of "free speech" makes you a coward.
Declining to sell a book in a store isn’t “censorship”. The author could easily host the book on their own website. If the government forces them to take it down, then it’s censorship.
There's a EU-wide standard for passport photos. Your head has to be properly aligned within a specific frame. You must not show any facial expression. The lighting must eliminate shadows and "shiny" spots.

Regular automatic booths do not check for all those issues. Sure, you can probably create a booth that handles them, but then you will probably also start charging as much as the photographer. And its a one in 5 years affair, so why bother going to a booth?
One should always be cautious to not assume that studies conducted in lab animals translate to humans by default. The media is quick to do that but we can be better than that.
Ellen Pao is a con artist and a parasite. Her playbook is well known and its widespread use is responsible for more division than a silly discussion group on Reddit: Virtue signal on every platform you can get on and use the race/gender card to get jobs far beyond your actual merit and when things go sideways just double down and sue your employer as your racists/misogynists/trans phobic/homophobic/xenophobic employers. She is a disgrace.
Thanks for the reply! Yes I've pushed for it to get updated but haven't seen any results due to IT turnover. Always excited to hear more performance improvements, yay :) shout out to the Julia dev team for doing great, intentional work.

They supposedly have the HPC setup so you can install your own version locally and submit it to the cluster but nothing happens when I do that (job is called successful after 1sec, no print statements do anything, no save statements, etc). I may take your suggestion to work with the Julia slack team, thanks.
I think it's always been this way to a degree. But the mob can't completely exclude companies beyond a certain appeal, only the most extreme fringe. E.g. when they try to "excommunicate" firms over more mainstream views it doesn't work.

Groups also use various forms of harassment to censor individuals which I think is a much harder problem online.
you have to be careful for what you wish for.
get a book or two about soviet russia or nazi germany and learn how they 'loved their future' and baned and burned books. and what come out of it.
Should have been done in 2016.
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The best subreddits are those that are either a) very tightly moderated or b) obscure enough for the Eternal September not (yet) having happened to them. Most of the rest of the content is extremely low quality.
Not at google: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
Why does he have to say it? Because there are jerks out there who will dismiss his actions as virtue signaling. He is stating it is personal and he is committed.

Do complain this much and call it virtue signaling if someone says they served in the armed forces and they love the flag?
It can be hard to separate things in the beginning because if you ask yourself: "What is important from this work that should be in shelf?", your answer would tend to be "everything". So, instead, you should be asking yourself "which elements can I be reusing in future work?" regardless of their importance.
I agree with you that it’s tiring, but censorship is not an option. Just imagine the “official” sources being propaganda and the truth being censored. Official sources are already spreading conspiracy theories about COVID right now (made in a lab, etc). This sword has two edges. The only thing that helps is to teach people to detect false information, ie education.
The right to peaceably assemble does not include the right to assemble for the purpose of violence.
The most popular mod teams are almost universally the ones with the most aggressive moderation policies. This include /r/the_donald.

The subreddits with laissez-faire moderation policies invariably get taken over by nasty interactions.
I think that resignation as a form of protest can be powerful when you are a junior member of a team and you think senior members are doing the wrong thing.

But when you are on the board of directors, you are the boss. In that case resignation is an abdication of leadership and a tacit admission that you have done a poor job.
“the UK is exposing some of its workforce to some great tunnelling projects”

Honest question: does this actually involve lots of UK workforce for the core jobs? I would think specialized crews move wherever these tunneling projects go. I know that already happens with specialized concrete pouring in high-rise building construction.

That makes sense for both companies, who want to work with experienced personnel, and workers, who do not want to move to lower-paying jobs if there isn’t any tunnel being bored in the UK for a while.
Reddit and 4Chan are the two sides of the same coin for me. Just their ideologies are different. At least the people on 4Chan are self aware about how toxic they are.

But the mods (at least on the popular subreddits) on reddit love to ban anything that isn't far left.

I don't mind echo chambers but the lack of self awareness always rubs me the wrong way.
I agree with the sentiment that we shouldn’t propagate disinformation as much as the next guy, but this is a strawman. Nowhere in the book does it say anything about Bill Gates behind covid, or any similarly ludicrous conspiracies. The book mentioned appears to be reasonable and fact based.
I think your misconception is that content has positive value.

Content can definitely have negative value. More is sometimes worse. The extremes are obvious (users gain less value from a website with more bullying), but the principle is true even in the middle ground.

While good advice brings value, bad advice (eg. medical, financial, etc.) causes users to seek value elsewhere, or causes their ruin and subsequent decrease in value to advertisers.

Even when the content does not have negative value, if it floods content with positive value, people no longer get the value they used to.
It was by far the largest online conservative community, and it funneled people into even more extreme communities.

I don't really get bringing up the freedom of speech angle here - r/the_donald has always aggressively deleted posts and banned users for expressing anything but complete loyalty to Donald Trump.
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Maybe Firefox can patch something?
A bug should identify where it was introduced. If a bug was introduced in version 0.5, then version 0.5 forever has that bug, and so the issues is forever valid in that sense, as a truthful comment about a historic thing. If the current version is 1.2, and it has not been confirmed to have fixed the bug, the view should be taken that the bug still exists in 1.2. Bugs don't just become invalid; if we are justified in calling a bug invalid now, that can only be because it was never valid in the first place.

Suppose that someone tries to check, but the bug doesn't reproduce in 1.2. However, it was never root-caused. All we have is a description of the behavior that was happening in 0.5.

Now what? Do you just close that bug to get the open bug count down?

Probably an "unsolved mysteries" or "cold cases" category would be more appropriate for it rather than lumping it with genuinely closed bugs: those that were traced to a root-cause and confirmed.

In cases when you're sure that the bug was due to some software that was entirely rewritten such that the same bug cannot plausibly be in the rewritten version, or some software that was removed entirely, then there is justification in closing that.
Some people just like to use non-verbal queues to keep others at arm's length.
> Employment supresses protest because it takes time and saps energy.

Also protesting in some cases risks employment. A decent portion of these people likely no longer have that as a concern.
Linguistics is inherently descriptivist.

Words only have meaning due to community consensus. Yes, we have dictionaries to record what the consensus is (or, more accurately, what the consensus was at a particular point in time), but the dictionary cannot predict semantic drift, nor can it adapt with sufficient speed in the modern era of light-speed communication.

The dictionary only works because most people who use a given word already use it consistently with how the dictionary describes it. It is not the case that most people learn the word "dog" from the dictionary; the dictionary's definition is "correct" because it aligns with the way people already use the word. If Merriam-Webster published a revised definition stating that a dog is "a large, four-legged creature with wings which breathes fire", people would immediately agree that the dictionary is wrong. It only reflects words as they are used, not words as they must be used. (The Merriam-Webster official Twitter account is adamant in promoting this view of dictionaries, for what it's worth.)
That's an interesting article. I think I'd like to take a look first hand. Perhaps I'll buy some of his books so I can decide for myself. Where are they available?
The Copenhagen Confusion
Then where were the protests when similar incidents happened dozens of times before COVID? Has there been anything on this scale since Rodney King?
Ongoing discussion, currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23430575
I made a wonderful little Google scraper in Clojure once. I was surprised to see I got IP blocked after only 20 or so searches.
Equity markets don't reflect your viewpoint. There's a reason the S&P is now less than 10% below its previous highs.

Regarding monetary stimulus being exhausted, the Fed Chairman specifically says that's not true[1]. Even at the zero bound for short-term rate the Fed can push overnight rates negative, or purchase long-dated bonds, corporate bonds, municipals, or even equities.

The only fundamental limit on monetary stimulus is inflation or a balance-of-payments crisis. Inflation expectations are significantly lower than before the stimulus. And rather than a devaluation of the dollar, there's a global shortage of dollars. The reality is the Fed can print far more money before running into constraints related to inflation or currency devaluation.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jerome-powell-federal-reserve...
Lots of people are looking for any story they can find to make all this make sense. The stories they're hearing don't make sense and keep changing, too. I don't think doubling down on the parochial "we'll tell you what to think, you can trust us" is going to win back their trust or make them any more willing to embrace the complexities and uncertainties they face. It'll definitely confirm that there's "seekrits they're not being told", however.
You are well known to ban very good advice on a very specific topic - but we both know that even mentioning that would get me into trouble.
Reddit, among other social media websites, has been used as an avenue for the radicalization of, particularly, young males.
Someone should tell the economists.
Making information unavailable justifies radical conspiracy theories and makes it harder to find trustworthy sources.
> I know someone who got a highly paid job by first doing it for free for 3 months to prove his skills

And I know dozens of people who got burned by being talked into working for "exposure".
> Repeatable, provable builds are I understand a recent phenomenon. Use a different compiler, or different flags, and you get different binaries.

You are right that I overstated my case somewhat. You are not guaranteed to get the exact same binary even with the exact same build system, and reproducing the exact same build system decades later may not be easy.

However, using the same version of the same compiler with the same flags, you'll get very close to the same binary even without repeatable builds. Not exactly the same – some binaries embed compilation timestamps, sometimes compilers have a bit of non-determinism in their processing. People who want repeatable builds for security need to produce exactly the same binary. For a copyright lawsuit, you don't need the exact same binary, just a binary which is as close as possible – expert human analysis will compare the two binaries and their disassembly in order to demonstrate copying. (So, while ideally you'd have the exact same compiler version, even if you don't, it can still work – the binary doesn't have to be exactly the same, just close enough that a human expert can determine that it is more likely than not produced from the same source code). The whole point of repeatable builds is you don't need an expert forensic analysis to determine that the two binaries are compiled from the same source, you just compare the hashes.

> the burden of proof still lies with the alleged copyright holder of a work, who certified in their internal processes, does not exist anymore.

Microsoft will pay an expert witness a lot of money to perform a forensic analysis of the distributed source code and compare it to the surviving Windows 3.0 binaries. That expert witness will testify the copying occurred. It is up to the defendant to find their own expert witness to testify to the opposite. If they do so, it then comes down to which expert witness the judge and/or jury finds more convincing.
Can you give an example of a web app/service that you created? Are these SaaS or content sites monetized by ads/affiliate etc?
Do you know of any federated/distributed alternatives to reddit? Although, maybe the argument is we don't actually need a social media platform at all just RSS.
as a cop, regardless of whether these people get kicked out, the movement clearly draws them, and the protests are not organized, so there is no good guarantee the protest will not turn lethal

these cops are fellow citizens and many are also black. shouldn't their lives be protected as well?

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we might be talking past each other at this point

origin concern in the article is police come to protests all decked out in swat gear

i think this makes a lot of sense given the nature of the protests and prior and current violence against police

blowing up someone after a cop gets killed does nothing for the dead cop

so, i think until the movement organizes better and self polices much better, swat geared police is the only humane option, if we believe cops' lives matter too
Official sources are continuing to mess up, and causing more destruction than this book ever could. The Lancet is about as official as it gets: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet/article/s0140673620313246
And the defiance cost them fines, sometimes, not their lives. The protests are addressing compliance resulting in death for a select portion of the population that has been systematically singled out for centuries because of the pigment of their skin.
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The "well-armed citizenry" has now had ample opportunity to rise up against tyranny, from federal agents seizing American children and placing them in cesspit prisons, to the regular murder of black Americans by police forces, to the waging of unjust wars in our name. They have done nothing.

It's clear, at this point, that the culture of gun cosplay in America is inextricably tied up with white supremacy, and must itself also be dismantled.
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