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>The problem is they are not approaching the left's extremists with the same fervor

This is a false equivalence. The worst of the alt-right are far, far worse than the worst of the extreme left (antifa, maybe? Though there is no alt-left).

Good riddance to them, I say. If you want to lead the KKK, and advocate for a white ethnostate, I won't lose any sleep when you can't post videos trying to convince others of the same evil ideas.
Accusations of virtue signalling (becoming preachy) are a pretty common way to dismiss people arguing that systemic racism is a problem. What's further frustrating is that last I checked, the debates are raging far more in threads like this one, while the black programmers telling their experiences were comparatively empty of comments.
I agree.

I just want to point out that COBOL developers do need to learn new stuff. There are new tools, mainframe emulators, different structures at different companies, etc.
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We live in interesting times, ripe for manipulation and propaganda, both if which China and Russia have spread in the EU during the last months. India's ban is completely warranted. The fact that they also have a border dispute with China only makes things worse. I'd rather they ban a few apps than escalation and war.
The C++ versions may drive new sales on additional consoles but measured by hours played I would expect that the Java version of Minecraft still dominates.
Youtube is censoring like crazy the last months. They ARE fascists, too
I do wonder how this would of been reported prior to COVID-19. Would the pandemic aspect be as flagged are my thoughts.
An aspect it is ok to embrace is the culture. The UK is second only to Sweden in terms of global pop music influence.
That's a bad metric. I find Facebook a privacy disaster (and user hostile and i am less happy when I use it). But am I willing to delete it? No, because if I meet someone I can friend them on FB later, and it's my only means of communication for some people. If a better communications network were available I would switch, but since there isn't, I can't.
Still not a tautology though; not-not wanting does not mean wanting.
Have you watched Swift related announcements at WWDC? Package manager support for binary dependencies is coming with Big Sur.
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because, it's checks notes

% curl -Lo mozilla.zip https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/archive/tip.zip
% unzip mozilla.zip && cd mozilla-central-*
% find . -type f \( -iname '*.cpp' -o -iname '*.cc' -o -iname '*.cxx' -o -iname '*.c' -o -iname '*.h' -o -iname '*.hpp' -o -iname '*.hxx' -o -iname '*.hh' \) | wc -l
32347
% find . -type f -name '*.rs' | wc -l
7669
% find . -type f -iname '*.js' | wc -l
70101

...still mostly C and C++ and more JavaScript than Rust.
Trying to draw a parallel between Google and a country that literally tortures and murders its citizens for "unsanctioned beliefs" is disingenuous. Cut the bullshit.
You disagreeing with an idea does not mean is is false, likewise you agreeing would not make it true.

Edit / reply to opnitro due to rate limit: I am arguing that the truth of an idea is unrelated to whether it causes offence. That should hopefully be very clear when reading the posts you're replying to.
Ctrl-click is equally hard to explore. A beginner user's experience is entirely different.
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battertenr 7 hours ago [–]

The reason is because it is a terrible job. Unlikely 90% of other jobs, you have to mentally burn your brain out each day, constantly learn new things, and focus intensely, supposedly for 8 hours.

Yes, and I can't imagine working a job where you do the same thing over and over, day after day, year after year. Data entry, accounting, 1st and 2nd level support, driving a taxi, hell, even flying a jumbo jet.
Hi John, welcome to HN! Argh, I'm terribly sorry that you were getting rate limited and have turned that off now (I'm a mod here). Our software does that because of past abuses by trolls, and the fact that it also affects users who show up here to discuss their work is the thing I hate most about our entire system.

Please comment as much as you like. I've also unclogged the pipes so that your blocked comments have now all gone through.
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This article is from March and is referencing this research paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-020-0575-z

The research looks interesting, so the question is whether they can develop an inexpensive mass manufacturing process. If they can, can they do so before other batteries upstage them? These batteries appear to be about 23% more energy dense (volumetrically) than Tesla Model 3 batteries, with some possible safety advantages as a bonus. However, by the time these batteries hit the market (2-3 years minimum, I would guess) Tesla will probably be at or above that energy density level. The safety advantages will probably make it competitive for at least some applications, though, and they may be able to increase the energy density even further, so we will have to wait and see.
I've been watching youtube for years, and it finds me videos on physics and math, and woodworking, plumbing, and home repair, also electronics.

I even followed the white house for a while, but I get zero political recommendations.

I just now checked the recommendations of several people who are next to me and none of them have any extremist content either.

If you watch extremist content, you'll get extremist content. If you don't, you won't.
Those EU "accepts cookies" boxes have done an amazing job at making people ignore every popup on the internet.
I just noticed that the link to the official Indian gov press release was modified to TechCrunch.

@dang - why was this changed, do you know? May be the Indian Gov Press release site hit hard by HN?
You might be right but trying to censor stuff on the Internet tends to make it bigger in the long run. For an intellectual threat like Molyneux it would better to confront head on with “logic and facts” than pretend it doesn’t exist.

Or on the flip side, if something he says makes you uncomfortable but you can’t explain why it’s wrong, then you need to step up your rhetoric game.

One of the most effective tropes used by folks like Molyneux is “liberals are emotional and argue with feelings, not facts” - by freaking out and banning a highly articulate speaker like Molyneux the “libs” are only proving his point.
Why does China ban Google, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube ? Why ? What are they afraid of ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
It's bound to happen. See the political battles being fought for data localisation, and control of Internet governing bodies.
An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle
I agree with you. I edited my original comment to clarify a bit.
Since there's other large open-source projects on GitLab too (namely GNOME) I think it would be pretty neat if there was some sort of ActivityPub-esque federation between GitLab instances, to foster a sense of community in an application that's more distributed than GitHub is. You miss out on a lot with so many teams living in their own bubble.
> Here's one difference: the CCP is a totalitarian dictatorship that exerts direct control over Chinese corporations.

Maybe we shouldn't have worked so hard to support building up their manufacturing base when we knew this all along.

Oh well, we just get to repeat the Dutch mistake of financing your enemy into having a robust manufacturing base until they gradually overtake global control.
Maybe every four years we switch between FPTP and RC
Classic Pied Piper China
They call it "cancel culture" in an attempt to express that people are too willing to boycott nowadays. Certainly a boycott is sometimes justified, but it's a problem if people start organizing a boycott every time they hear an offensive statement.
I also don't believe that society generally shares the "private companies can do what they want" point. The Hollywood Blacklist isn't considered as "okay, well, private companies", it's considered wrong.

Many people seem to agree that private companies should be allowed to do whatever they want as long as what private companies want to do is essentially what they want those companies to do. If the company actions change, so does their stance.
Ha, you're right Supercell is 81.4% owned by Tencent. It's hard to keep up these days.
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Your initial reply was to this

>India is absolutely right in banning TikTok as it is a significant national securities threat.

which is exactly why YouTube and China are not equivalent. You're talking about abstract black box algorithms; no one else was.
Absolutely. The Rothschild conspiracy is very real.
My intent was humorous, but not to shame; I didn't mean it to come out that way.

> How much literature has disappeared from history because certain languages or vernaculars fell out of use?

The answer is not very much, comparatively. Most of the known losses of old works has been due to destruction, not communal loss of ability to decipher. Here's a summary of objects with unknown scripts:

https://omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm
> “While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority or who promote such attacks of hate.”

The majority where? I can't find any specifics on what the majority qualifier is applied to (ex: the community in which the speech occurs, the geographic community of the user, etc).
> Molyneux, precisely, does not advocate specifically for a white ethnostate where Spencer does.

"The devolution of the US from an Enlightenment Republic to a semi-banana republic is also silenced, since that has a lot to do with racial IQ demographics esp permanent low Hispanic IQ"

What is the implied solution to this alleged problem?
Everyone questioning India, should first Question China ! Why does this country ban these services ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
Nice to read that you like it!

I think I could integrate ARCore but did not have time yet to play with it, I would be happy to accept contributions since I've never used ARCore myself :) I will add an issue in the repo with the idea!
I can't come up with any right now.

Fortunately, I can come up with one about men: Men are more physically aggressive than women. I believe this is true, a negative stereotype, and has biological basis.
Since you mention East India Company, what makes YouTube different from them?
> In some countries, people trust their government to do the right thing.

In some countries, some people trust their government to do such things, and it may even be majority of people. That doesn't help the portion of citizens that get such decisions imposed on them against their will.
You might be interested in ForgeFed [1].

[1] - https://forgefed.peers.community/
It is important, because it implies Molyneux would take steps to build such a state, when he wouldn't on principle. Molyneux is an anarcho-capitalist: he desires there to be no state at all.
It literally greenlights racism against Whites...
Big companies are hit or miss. I work for a large financial company and they are constantly switching stacks and chasing the latest industry tech. They love to compare themselves to silicon valley. It's exhausting.
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From a mainstream point of view (of let's say twitterverse) the left is the only one I have seen claim that race should be used in social policing.

The right would rather use race correlation those metrics to argue that the status quo is fair, not racist and just due to meritocracy.

Personally I think both are wrong as the status quo should be improved quite drastically, but also I believe that race-aware policies will ultimately slowdown progress and lead to push back.
Theoretically, I can see why that would be distressing as an end-user, but wearing my platform operator hat^, I can't think of any way to implement that doesn't result in either driving traffic to competing platforms, assisting rulebreakers in their inevitable quest to rouse a pitchfork mob against their own platform, and/or is interpreted to be saying that users are bad for having subscribed to banned content.

^ I do not operate any public platforms.
> is this sarcasm? it appears disjointed from your comment and disagrees with your thesis.

Not sure how it contradicts with my points. Can you clarify?

> is there orthoganality between open/close on other systems? i have never thought so.

Yes, there is always a "Close" menu option right in the same menu with the "Open". The close "X" is for closing windows, not opening them, and it also has orthogonality. You open the window by clicking on an icon, and you close it by clicking on another icon.

Going back isn't "closing" on Android. It's just the opposite of navigating forward which also makes sense in a navigational context.
hn miss the old internet where content is the king

hn also ask for more apis that make the internet such a shithole today, so we can make more useless web "apps".
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Moloenux has been on YouTube for over a decade. He wasn't evading any bans.
Damn, I never actually heard this being spoken about on reddit.

It's interesting, I'm not from the US and I find it curious that these situations arise. I can understand and empathise with (as a 'person of colour' as it's called over there) the arguments of both sides, but deep down I find this kind of 'positive segregation' morally wrong.
What about Facebook? A native app, free, tied to a business and utterly motivated to violate your privacy.

> False: you can definitely verify that a binary matches the source code in deterministic builds

If I want to check an app I have installed from the iOS App Store matches the code provided in an open repo, how would I go about doing that?

>Truthness: many webs are obfuscated on purpose like native apps are.

True. But their underlying behaviour, i.e., what data they send and where they send it, is viewable and blockable by browser extensions.
The language barrier already guarantees that. Only 12.6 percent of Indians speak English and only 6.4 percent of Chinese speak English. The overlap is worse with any other common language.
Similar story, different outcome: long ago I went into a used bookstore housed in an old firestation (now a theatre). It had many books shelved on its first floor, but the second floor was an acre of heaps.

Its owner was a grey-haired and bearded, gruffish old-school book dealer. I was looking for an obscure French novel which was (I did not know) unlikely to be found anywhere, then or now.

After quickly trying my luck and utterly failing, I asked about it by author and title. Melvin looked down, shuffled a bit, then said he'd have a look. Upstairs around the firepole he trudged. Five minutes of bumping, ten minutes of shuffling, and down the stairs he came holding it. "It's a little dusty," he offered.

I'd pay a sizeable sum to be able to relive that moment.
Don't worry, the payment processors and corporate banks with federal charters simply will refuse to deal with them. They won't be able to buy services or connectivity. And then when they try to set up their own payment networks they'll be charged with trumped up KYC law infractions and put in prison.
It's curious that people that seem to be racists aren't happy when everyone tries to get along and sing campfire songs about being one people and inclusive. They also aren't happy when people stand up for themselves and reject their worldview.
I genuinely ask: why is "a sense of community" important in a productivity tool?

I have never cared about all the "social features" that work tools seem to always end up introducing...
It did that here in the US too, for a few weeks.

Imagine if the worst parts of 2008 financial crisis had started in March rather than September.
Please explain. In which districts in the United States are neo-Nazis affiliated with Stefan Molyneux, David Duke (former leader of the KKK), and Richard Spencer (who was videoed performing a Sieg Heil) up for election, as challengers or incumbents? I was not aware these men were employed by one of the two major political parties, or even one of the two smaller ones.

If the specific figures being banned are not affiliated with any candidate for election, even under a minor party or for local office, how is this "election interference"?
I would like to second this and point out that while someone can self host and set all of this stuff up, at some points there are economies of scale for using a provider to do this because the provider's raison d'etre is to create these interfaces that make it easy for everyone to interact with git. The developers on KDE, etc. probably don't want to spend their time working on the UI for their bug/issue/feature/commit request tool when they could be working on KDE things.

Finally, there's the fact that many more users will be familiar with GitLab (or GitHub, BitBucket, and so on) than they would with each and every opensource project's flavor of bug/issue/feature/commit tracker. For instance, I know exactly how to find the "releases" section on github quickly - if KDE wrote their own bug/issue/feature/commit tracker, I'd have to find the "releases" area and remember where it is every time since I don't use that UI as often as I use github.
If you're lucky enough, like me, to live in a university town, don't miss out on the faculty library of whatever subject area of your interest (science, art, philosophy, you name it).

I'm currently neck-deep in a subject, and was searching for an expensive (80€) reference book online, and serendipitously I came across a search result pointing to my local university.

I immediately biked to the university (15-minute ride), paid a piddling amount of 15€ (or 25€, I forget) as the membership fee for the faculty library, and loaned that book and a couple of others. Pretty neat.

Since then, I discovered, 95% of all the serious scholarly works that I want to refer to are available at the university faculty library.

By Jove do I struggle to express how delighted I am to have stumbled across that online search result (here Google gets my gratitude!), which led to many fruitful (non-null) pointers. I already spend substantial money on physical books, so this discovery of faculty library has been an outstanding find.
Yeah, I think there's a real opportunity to offer top YT creators a better deal. There's a lot of talent with 100K-5M subs that have to constantly hustle to earn income to pay for their productions. Offer them contracts with guaranteed pay, production budgets, professional PR and they'd win a lot of people over.
"“...the Germans were in danger of being taken over by what they perceived as Jewish-led Communism. And Jewish-led Communism had wiped out tens of millions of white Christians in Russia and they were afraid of the same thing. And there was this wild overreaction and all this kind of stuff."

Yeah he's a white supremacist. White supremacy (and associated Fascism), tend to believe in contradictory narratives about their opponents.
The recommender seems like the biggest problem. The algorithm attempts to maximize engagement, and this extreme content really engages the crap out of some people. The recommender throwing this stuff in people's faces is probably not very good for society.

Back in the day, if you wanted to buy a porn magazine, you could do it but it would be behind the counter, possibly out of sight entirely. It was legal to buy, but it was not being "recommended" to you by the store by virtue of giving it visible shelf space.

I suppose that there is some section 230 argument about why YouTube can't do that, because then they would be exercising editorial control. I'd say that they already are exercising editorial control by having a recommender. I'd much rather have humans exercise that editorial control than an algorithm which is essentially psychopathic. It's an editor that is trying to addict viewers.
> Not having a package manager for your language ... encourages reinventing the wheel instead of standing on the shoulder of giants.

Isn't writing a new package manager from scratch a pretty clear example of reinventing the wheel, especially when these package managers often miss vital features that system package managers have had for 15 years?

https://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt
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It’s to prevent this, so you don’t have their user base hope to the other platform to express their anger, it also helps when you share the news cycle.

This isn’t an opinion for or against this pattern just an observation on why it makes sense.
You can't stand by western values in the Chinese market, the government won't let you. So your option is play by CCP values or don't play at all.

On the plus side, at least the Chinese consumer knows what the CCP values are, so it's not like it comes as a surprise.
Will definitely check this out thank you
Unfair?

Unfair to who?

Whether I agree with it or not (I don't). China gets to have it's cake and eat it too. Big win for China, wouldn't you say?

If everyone else is willing to leave the cake on the table, It's perfectly fair for China to have it if you ask me.
TERFs falling out of favour with the "actual leftist subs" is also a relatively new thing... they used to be strongly TERF apologist at the very least, if not actively and heavily promoting them in the case of several of the more feminist-aligned ones. Think last few years. This isn't just a Reddit thing either; questioning their ties to the UK's main left-wing political party (which has actually influenced our laws for the worse) used to be way outside the range of acceptable leftism, but has suddenly become a controversial hot topic in the last few months.
Where do I sign up to join the troika? Or could I work the rehab camps?
I'm seeing lots of comments about national security-style concerns, and framing this in terms of the recent India-China skirmishes. That all makes sense.

Where I think a lot of folks are missing the point is that this is also a tremendous boost to local Indian entrepreneurship. One of the really clever aspects of China's Great Firewall is that it keeps out international competition, which would crush local startups. By banning more advanced, foreign competitors, India gives its local entrepreneurs a chance to grow hugely successful domestic apps, which can then compete internationally.
I think a lot of companies use their intranet site as their handbook.
There's a subtle sense of exuberance shining through in this article that makes it a gratifying read, even if you've never heard of the company before. Kudos to them for their decision not to bow to Apple's demands. Please tell us how it goes!
Not yet.

The most valuable company in the world has significantly more resources than we do.
Molyneux earned the ban. I've personally reported him several times. Not to say the other didn't also deserve it, but Molyneux was on my radar.
> I'd be curious to learn why Cargo re-compiles from scratch instead of offering pre-compiled binaries as well. I guess part of it is related to different target platforms

There’s that but there’s also issues like ABI stability (and the lack thereof), compilation flags, hosting (infrastructure and its cost), distribution mechanisms, …

There’s an issue on cargo dating back to 2015 (#1139) but there’s a lot of efforts needed to think about the problem, then actually solve it.
Molyneaux: The primary purpose of feminism is to lower white birthrates.