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We need more decentralization, moving the Web outside of big corps that censor "wrong think." We need more critical free thinkers. We need to be more vocal. We need more conversation and willingness for understanding differing view points. I almost feel like, at least for a ‘main’ social network/chat and political conversations, we need something like the Nets from Enders Game, tying online accounts to real persons, possibly reducing potential for misinformation, propaganda, and opposition-silencing spread by bots and non-persons. All I know is that FB, Twitter, Reddit, etc. are "hive minds" and it is incredibly disheartening when you are one those who "wrong think." And it doesn't seem organic.
> Especially not right now.

Right now what? Sounds like you're jumping at shadows. In general false positives are good for finding errors in systems. However, they can go too far and lead to pathological patterns like human immune system self-alergies.
Testimony by Fed Reserve Chair Powell to the House Financial Services Committee
How is this user hostile - forcing app developers to give users a choice that doesn’t give the app developer your real email?
Obviously the First Amendment is directed to the government. I’m not making a legal argument here. But we don’t abide by the first amendment merely because we throw up our hands and say “this is a terrible idea but we’re stuck with it.” There is an underlying principle there, and that principle isn’t necessarily limited to the government. (As a matter of what is good policy, not what is the minimum legally required protection.)

I don’t agree with your characterization that not shutting down subreddits or Twitter accounts is identical to forcing speech on anyone. There are a lot of Neo-marxists hanging out on Reddit calling for violence whose ideas I find extremely offensive and dangerous. But I choose not to wander into those subreddits. I don’t see why those subreddits need to be wiped out.
Apple also took a multi-year effort of designing a stable ABI for Swift as means to enable exactly this scenario.
I posted this link down-thread but wanted to be sure you saw it;

https://img.apmcdn.org/6b486323329122674a9b5fbfdcf2e51f9ad83...

IMO it’s unquestionable that mass protests contributed to the spread of COVID, it’s just apparently uncouth to say so.

It may be true that during daylight hours outside, being outside on a sunny day the UV dampens the virus. But we know that the virus mostly doesn’t transmit on surfaces it transmits in suspended droplets. It also can be absorbed through the eyes not just nasal passages. Certainly evening mass protests with people in close proximity absolutely spreads COVID. I don’t think anyone can seriously argue otherwise.

All else being equal, having everyone wear a mask versus not probably reduces the R value at least somewhat, but this is assuming wearing masks doesn’t also lead to an increase in risky behavior. If people wearing a mask feel they are less likely to get or spread COVID and therefore alter their behavior, then that new behavior works to some extent to either partially nullify, or even completely nullify any benefit or conceivably makes matters worse.

But frankly this mask discussion misses the forest for the trees. Somehow we went from “flatten the curve” to “minimize all cases” to “shutdown everything until it’s gone”. We cannot continue to shutdown everything, we’ve already paid about $10 trillion trying to do that for just a few months and now have 40 million unemployed.

People who feel they are vulnerable should be provided the support and services they need to protect themselves and avoid exposure. Stricter policies should reinforce these protections for the most vulnerable populations, like nursing home visitation and screening employees in contact with the elderly. The IFR is so massively skewed to the elderly, we need to be 100% focused on protecting that population. For those under 70 the quarantine “cure” is worse than the disease.
If you believe that free markets result in a fair outcome, eventually you have to come up with an explanation for why black and brown people have much lower economic and social status in Western capitalist countries. Broadly speaking, there's only a few possibilities:

1. Free markets can result in unfair outcomes in the face of prejudice or historical inequalities.

2. Racial inequality is caused entirely by government regulation.

3. The system works fine as it is, and some minorities just deserve lower status because they're lazy or have low IQs or something.

The most hardcore Libertarians reject (1) because it could potentially justify government intervention. Most of them turn to (2), but since that's a bit of tough argument to make, a few go to (3) instead. And once you decide that minorities are just inferior, it's a pretty straight line from there to white nationalism.
I hope not, I find the performance, interface, and delivery of YouTube, and the Google ownership, incredibly unappealing.
But I pay for the App Store indirectly through high margin hardware, transaction fees, including the 30% tax, so shouldn’t i be able to turn off Apple’s ad network all together and not let them advertise to me in the App Store by using my purchase history?

Funny how privacy invasions are bad and everything should be done on device until Apple starts selling ads and then it’s ok somehow for them to use your behavior/purchase profile.
This is a totally different experience than mine. I did Electrical Engineering but have been a programmer all my career. I love programming. I love the creative process, the bugs, the build system, the frustration. I love everything about it. Maybe its a personality thing. I was never into what others think.

Also, I think you don't work in a pure tech company. My experience in the valley is that programmers are considered first-class employees. All my managers were programmers, some programmed on side. They understood all the complexity that goes in building a software. You can try moving into one of the pure tech companies.
Yup, FWIW I think their selection is great, I was just using them as an example of a company that chose not to provide any in-house email+password option.
That’s the problem. The subreddit seemed innocent at first glance but was particularly awful upon closer inspection.
Important to recognise that Stefan Molyneux is not far-right, whether or not the far-right are encouraged by his YT channel deletion. I would classify him as an atheist/libertarian.
The Lost Art of True Rest
He made a claim, but he didn’t actually share any of his research or data.
It's not right-wing as much as a particular kind of very free-market-focused libertarianism. But, yes, I've thought about this discrepancy, too.

In practice, big services like YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, et. al., are going to get heat from all sides of the political spectrum. Right-wingers are positive Twitter is suppressing them, yet left-wingers frequently complain Jack Dorsey is a cryptofascist. Both of them are pushing these theories on... Twitter. And they get thousands of retweets. You would think that irony would not be lost on them, but you would be oh so wrong.
Social Media companies are learning that moderation or algorithmic news feeds inevitably are perceived as a kind of non-neutral editorial control. I don't think you can have moderation at large scale without it being perceived as such.

Why didn't this happen with [10 year old bulletin board] of yore? Maybe the stakes were lower? Maybe the population was more homogeneous? Maybe the arguments were happening outside of an online space? Was the political space different? Or all of the above?
Asians are the majority, not white people.
I started running barefoot recently. I have a hip injury that seems to flare up badly when I run with shoes. Running without shoes has me running slower and in turn putting less stress on my hip. I'm not sure if it's a good idea long term but at least in the short term, it helps me get back to running.
I don’t want to have a relationship with every app developer. If you want a relationship with your customers that you control, you are free not to implement any third party sign on and implement your own.
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The hollowing out of small town America by Amazon & Walmart is sad to see.

You can talk all you want about free market cheaper prices raising all boats, but it doesn't jive with profits circulating within a community vs being shipped back to shareholders.

Here but for the missed middle ground where profits were retained locally while leveraging an efficient, free market supply chain.
How's this different from email? Management of server reputation, spam filters, etc.

One and gone spam servers are frequent and are dealt with through putting low trust in new servers and using heuristics to flag behavior that look abusive.
So I've heard this claim before, and it's I can't believe that it's true. I can easily tell the difference between Wyborowa or Finlandia, the difference in taste is massive.
I guess we should ban all adult apps and services. Think of the children.
What do generic "Europeans" have in common with each other? As a Russian, I feel like my culture overlaps relatively little with French, German, or English. Moreover, which parts of "Europe" are actually included in this taxonomy? Are Romani considered white? What about Southern Italians? Black people in France? It all boils down to "people of European heritage with white skin (whose ancestors wrote books and stuff that I like)," which is wishy-washy and tautological.
Amex/Discover cards exist too, you should use them!
Karen Attiah,editor at Washington Post calls for revenge against white women
A genuine hacker!
I didn't use the word "dehumanize," did I?
There's no paradox here. The balkanization of the web is a foregone conclusion. And not just between geopolitical rivals: the EU is dead set on creating a local version of FAANG companies.
What do you count as a small company? My experience at a small company in London was that I had to be a combined programmer, manager, product owner, project manager and user researcher very early on because, well, there weren’t enough employees/customers to have actual qualified people acting in those roles full-time. (And it’s cheaper to make one person do all the roles and only pay them for one role, of course...)
But what if you could improve your privacy without any inconvenience at all?

That's essentially Apple's marketing pitch on this subject, and this poll shows that there are a lot of people with whom it will resonate.
Well women make up a larger percentage of the population than men. So is misogyny allowed on reddit openly now? Great...
EDIT: This was sarcasm.
Figuring out a widely held opinion is wrong is actually not that easy. As such I have a lot more acceptance for those being wrong while promoting the status quo than those intentionally pushing the overton window. The latter is what should require commitment/conviction, to weed out the bad. And seems to be what is getting axed right now.

Investing into shitty companies will make you loose your investment. Why should this be different with ideas?
Side note: there's (almost) no problem implementing Apple sign in on Android. It is basically the same OAuth flow as Facebook or Twitter, with couple of minor quirks.
You think staying in Manhattan is going to be worth it during the fall/winter?

Basically nothing to do besides order takeout and walk around, bad weather. No big concerts, etc.
Consistent and evolving? Seems contradictory.
I've tried this, but sadly the books I want are fairly specialized; my alma mater had them, but the university library in my current town doesn't (their search is also horrible, often redirecting to journals before books), and ILL costs $25 per book, sadly. I wish I still lived up there, as they have free check out for local alumni.
I'm not going to say Chinese companies are better than American. But having both available is better for me than only having American.
It would be interesting to see an implementation that lets you view but not interact with removed content. click the spam tag to see all the spam, grayed out. in some cases it might be helpful to know what not to say, or that something has already been said and removed. /r/askhistorians would probably be a place where marking something as removed but visible would not be as at risk of propagating urban legend or bad history. hopefully that community would know what they are getting when they peak beneath the curtain.
Google Cloud blog, gently dissuading you from running a traditional DB in K8s: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/to-run-or-n...

K8s docs explaining how to run MySQL: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/run-replica...

You could also run it with Nomad, and skip a few layers of complexity: https://learn.hashicorp.com/nomad/stateful-workloads/host-vo... / https://mysqlrelease.com/2017/12/hashicorp-nomad-and-app-dep...

One of the big problems of K8s is it's a monolith. It's designed for a very specific kind of org to run microservices. Anything else and you're looking at an uphill battle to try to shim something into it.

You can also skip all the automatic scheduling fancyness and just build system images with Packer, and deploy them however you like. If you're on a cloud provider, you can choose how many instances of what kind (manager, read-replica) you deploy, using the storage of your choice, networking of choice, etc. Then later you can add cluster scheduling and other features as needed. This gradual approach to DevOps allows you to get something up and running using best practices, but without immediately incurring the significant maintenance, integration, and performance/availability costs of a full-fledged K8s.
That works as intended - they took out FB integration.
I am sure China and the WHO will handle it swiftly. In all seriousness though there is a risk of this version of swine flu to become a pandemic there are many zoonotic strains that risk becoming a pandemic at any point. Some already infect humans but just have yet to adapt to spreading person to person yet. The word really needs to be ready to respond to situations like this. We are lucky covid-19 is not worse and hopefully will wake up society to the risks.
The current system seems to be as extreme as it's possible to be without outright civil war. Generally the business of negotiating coalitions tends to temper extremism - see for example the new three-way Green and Centre-Right coalition in Ireland, which would have been unthinkable a couple of decades ago.

But considering the fact that political positions appear to correlate with brain structures, I honestly wonder if progressives and conservatives are no longer the same species.

Speciation happens when two mutations can no longer breed with each other. There's nothing in evolutionary theory that says the impediments can't be social and behavioural instead of anatomical.
Ask HN: How do you deal with family members who are into conspiracy theory?
> Who says Apple shouldn't just make Safari a hypertext-only browser and let the consumers vote with their wallets and their feet?

Me! I'm a consumer with a wallet and feet. And I would like Safari to have more features.
That’s how you personally might classify him, but many would disagree with you. To my eye, for one, it seems quite obvious that Molyneux is a far-right figure.
I would find it better if the proportion white population were placed horizontally or elsewhere entirely.

The other comment noted those metrics are "objective" and only "High"/"Low", but in all cases the least desirable situation (i.e. "bad") is the lowest. I read charts and benchmarks all the time and a usual cognitive shortcut you look for is good/bad (e.g. you see a decreasing graph -- if it's latency that is "low"=="good"; if it were profits it's "low"=="bad"), I'd be surprised if people didn't make similar quick assessments. Note that high white rate is also up, which is usually good too (profits, growth, etc.).

I guess no representation is perfect, but I think at least ethnicity could/should be separated here.
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>It doesn't matter how much you allow there's always going to be someone to shout "they restricting eeeeverything around here".

A good example here would be the MIDI interface getting blocked because it allows binary uploads via certain control message, as well as device enumeration.

If privacy is the main issue with this API, then the allowed control messages that the API would accept could be limited strictly to note on, note off, key velocity, etc.. things that have no realistic possibility of data leakage or compromise.

But instead, no, we lose the whole thing, even though a more nuanced approach (and in this case, one that's easy to implement - MIDI being rather straightforward) would satisfy any privacy concerns.

So with that in mind, the fact that a privacy-respecting alternative exists, no. I don't believe for a hot minute that that this is all about privacy - that is mere marketing fluff. I instead believe it is Apple is using privacy as a pretext for ensuring that PWAs remain as gimped second-class citizens on the platform in furtherance of their lock-in.
I have a neat cable with an attached micro/C adapter, and is A-to-C unless you un-nest the micro end.
>Unnecessary use of the 'paradox' label.

No, it is not. You just didn't read up what the paradox is—or what a paradox is for that matter.
"considering they have been annexing territory rather than losing it for decades"

That's a lie.
The only territory Russia got is Crimea which was Russian until 1954.
> That's not what I said. Do not put words into my digital mouth.

So white supremacists should be purged, but those who are complicit with them should not?
Thanks! That’s a great overview! (and I say that as someone that generally doesn’t like getting journalism through videos.)
You don't have to agree with someone to think it's wrong to censor them.
I deliberately avoided arguing the normative side of the question and will continue to do so, but I just wanted to reply to say that your position is not unheard of within Political Science. There are some drawbacks I didn't mention (how institutional / party polarization leads to affective / interpersonal polarization, which is probably good for in-group out-group borders and bad for not wanting to kill your neighbor) but I just wanted to say that you aren't, like, inherently or facially wrong in describing some of the things that have increased polarization actually being good from a civic engagement / representation POV.

Particularly, in the mid-century period, EE Schattschneider was probably the single most famous figure in American Political Science, and he used his stature to aggressively argue for what he called "responsible two-party government" wherein each party has a very clear and distinct brand and everyone does what they can to match voters up with parties. You might look at his work and responses to it if you want to see what political scientists in 1955 were thinking about this.
What is "staying in the flow"?

Recompiling fast helps the most when learning to program, but not for actual applications with some complexity.

Many applications do not even have meaningful output by just running it, for instance they may take a long time to compute something meaningful.
The article also implies that if anyone can guess your email address, they can send you/share with you a list. I wonder what anti-spam measures AnyList implements?
>What's wrong with just saying that it's their platform and they have the right to set the rules?

Because the admins still need people to believe they're the "good guys". And we all know the good guys don't censor people. That's what evil fascist governments do.

I would routinely visit the_donald. It was definitely a ruckus pro-Trump circle jerk, but it was hardly racist or abusive. It was mostly just silly pro-Trump memes. There's far more black Trump supporters than most people realize. The media does everything they can to hide them, so a lot of people would love to post photos of them with funny captions like "Oh look, another white supremacist Trump supporter!"

The admins couldn't have that, but they couldn't outright ban them without appearing draconian. So they instead tried just banning most of the mods, hoping the remaining mod would agree to the admin's terms of appointing only admin-approved puppet mods. Of course, the mod balked at that and just locked the sub and forwarded everyone to thedonald.win, the backup site.

So the admins ended up with the worst of both worlds. They still looked like the bad guys who shut down a sub on a whim, but now there's still a huge trove of funny non-racist pro-Trump memes sitting on their site for any Google searcher to stumble upon, which will only reinforce just how draconian the admins have become. By banning the sub outright, all that content gets deleted and hidden from search engines, so now when they vaguely label it "hate", you can't refute it.

Orwell nailed it. We've always been at war with ~~Eastasia~~ Eurasia.
Pretty difficult to get any form of accuracy with this because you can't easily account for tyre sidewall stiffness
This is an enormously detailed answer, thank you so much!
First amendment only protects you against the suppression of free speech from the government. It definitely does not give you the right to say whatever you want, wherever you want. Private companies have complete authority over which speech is acceptable on platforms run by them.
I agree with you in general. But would like to add that effective monopolies like youtube should be excluded. Censoring something on youtube essentially means it censored completely for video platforms.
Complaining about the /r/fragilewhiteredditor subreddit is kind of just proving their point though.
It does in the beginning. But if you want to become a serious Emacsen, it's better to learn some emacs-lisp.
Threatend by what? I cant recall NATO invading or annexing the territory of a sovreign nation. Russian on the other hand, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovkia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia to name but a few European nations that have felt Russias "non-threatening behaviour".

Nations voluntarily join NATO, because having seen Russian agression in neighboring states it makes them feel safer. If Russia doesnt like that maybe they should stop their aggressive behaviour.
Yeah, I did this in November, quit my job of 5 years that I loved doing, left the city and moved back with my dad. Timing probably couldn't have been better. Would have sucked hard being out in the city during this covid stuff. I've had a few jobs since moving back, none have been as good or even as enjoyable, i've managed to keep working fairly consistenly though. So far i've managed to save more money over 6 months than I was able to save over the last 5 years and that's still with paying rent and bills and stuff.

But, it's hard being away from my girlfriend, she's living with her parents not too far from here but far enough we don't see eachother anywhere near as much as we'd like, living with my dad as an adult has been a bit challenging. We've both been used do having our own space and lives and stuff for over a decade now, so there's been a bit of stress and such.

Personally though, I'm looking forward to getting my own place again but I don't think I'm going to go back to the city. It wasn't worth the stress and cost of living.
Honestly, we need to rethink this.

For example, I 'own' my sidewalk, but anyone can protest there. A lot of public space is privately owned, but can still be used for protest.

The internet is the new public square. It can be privately owned, but still forced to recognize the rights of the public.
This is basically how booru image boards work.
I'm not talking about personalizing ads here, I'm talking about storing who Apple has served ads to so that they can tell advertisers which ads lead to how many app installs.
Just to clarify, that says 18% of the value, not 18% of the number of transactions. From googling a few months ago, credit cards appeared to have the most transactions.