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Surely you could set up the spaces so that this could be much less of an issue?
Indeed it is, and I am not a cynical person. I tend to attribute incompetence over malice, and I am not even sure that malice is actually at play here.

But the reality is that with every release of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, piece by piece, the Web's most important behaviors and features, the things which make it so awesome, are being removed.
I know they are, and I appreciate them a ton for that. I have a feeling most of the people that do this don’t realize that fact though.
I was on the social networks before facebook, we called them bulletin boards, or IRC back then, and one of the things you didn't do was write your real name. You could be closer to people that way, you could share things you didn't want people to know about you, and it worked.

The reason it worked, was that you would gather based on your interests and there was no giant company optimizing things for clicks - that is also why the original reddit worked so well: there is a small space for your niche.
There's a good Planet Money podcast on this

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865908114/small-america-vs-bi...
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I think people really tend to undervalue good moderation and related systems for shaping good discussion. It's extremely common on HN to see people write off all moderation as censorship and an absolute bad, but then it's really interesting to see that so many people repeatedly pick the very-moderated HN over places like 4chan. It's like fish, ignorant of water, proposing that it's universally true that decreasing the obstacles and material between each other improves the discourse, while ignoring that places like that do exist and largely lack that benefit.
Not really. Dynlinking solves a memory resource problem we had in the 80s. These days the only people with the problem are the very smallest embedded systems.

As for "high multi-tenancy" there's nobody out there with server occupancy as high as Google's (see the recent Borg scheduler traces for concrete data) and they statically link everything.
>But it's true, a black individual is on average more likely to commit a crime.

More likely to be convicted of a crime. That's a subtle but very important distinction.
Seems like it should be possible for users to self-moderate, no? In the old and wild Usenet days there were plenty of popular, un-moderated forums with incredibly rich, thoughtful, vibrant discussion. Yes, you would get some unpleasantness on occasion, but you had kill files for that. It should be possible to do better today, we are much better at AI and online anonymity is no longer the norm.
Instacart is doing well but I think it's still too soon to call it a success. Hell I don't even know if I'd call Uber/Lyft a success yet.
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That's not practical. If you cap velocities, you'll also need to enforce a minimum size for all objects. If you don't do this, it will still be possible for objects to pass through each other. So you can either have really small but really slow objects, or really large but really fast objects.

What most games do is enable continuous collision detection for important fast objects only, like the player or projectiles.
Thanks for sharing. It makes sense that moving from an opt-out model to an opt-in model changes who stays, who goes, and how they feel about it but I never would have thought of it that way.

Do you think there would be meaningful changes if the police moved to using terms of enlistment? I can imagine a hypothetical society where signing up to serve as a police officer/constable/whatever would be mostly something people did for a single term because they felt it was a civic duty, or maybe because it let them access govt-provided education benefits.

Nobody on the right or left is really at ease with the militarization of police forces in terms of equipment, tactics, and outlook towards the policed. Even those who support harsh policing implicitly support it as something to be used against other people; no sane person would choose to be on the receiving end of a pre-dawn, no-knock warrant themselves.

Given that, it'd be ironic if it was a different sort of militarization which improved the state of policing.
Can't you achieve the same result with -ffunction-sections?
Interesting. Writing and creativity is indeed a muscle. The author should not disqualify themselves from being funny from just 4 week experience. Creating funny content for the onion at that time required that you be in the 95th percentile. The author could have been in 90th percentile for funny people in America.

I just started writing my newsletter at https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/ and I am currently building my writing muscle.
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I agree with you - it doesn't seem like we're smart enough in aggregate to actually pull it off.

And the counterpoint of "but look how far we've come" isn't satisfying because we all advance due to the absurd excellence of the few (researchers, inventors, philosophers, organizers, etc...) and what you're talking about seems to require excellence from the many.

But I also believe that the internet can be the solution to that problem. A bigger bunch of the kids that come behind us are much much smarter than we are, and I think it'll be the same for them and those that follow.

Drowning in information, awareness, and interaction from such a young age is going to promote rapid and broader smartening and wizening. The nodes will have an opportunity to slide up the competence gradient now that its apparent and the resources to exploit it are abundant.

Youth won't be wasted on the young in an environment where the young are already wise.
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> What is Facebook doing about THIS problem?

What are bars and pubs doing to stop the telling of untruths in their environments? Nothing and nobody is pressuring them to do so.

Why is Facebook different because it's on the Internet?
Probably because the recession side effects are real, and advertisements are costly.
Give us liberty, and give us death!
Over half of your libraries are used by fewer than 0.1% of your executables

That's a very misleading reference and graph. First of all, what did they expect to find? As you add more executables, of course the % usage of a library will decrease.

e.g. say I have a networking library on my computer, and, in a perfect world, all my installed network tools link against it. But now I install Gnome, and my machine has hundreds more binaries. Not all of the binaries will do networking stuff, so the % usage of the networking library goes down. But that doesn't mean that the networking library is not being shared as well as it could be.

A much better metric would be to count, for each shared library on a machine, the number of programs that link against it. If only one program uses a shared library, then that means the 'shared-ness' is not being used. If more than one program use it, then the library is being effectively shared. But the actual count, whether it is 200 users or 20, doesn't mean anything more. That's why comparing all libraries against libc's usage shows nothing useful.
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This is what I did in college! Ethernet cable under the carpet and along the wall for me. I had DSL piped into a Freesco Router (a floppy disk running Linux 2.0.36). I remember finally upgrading to an ethernet based ADSL modem that had the ability to flash it with router firmware. All I had to do was plug that thing into my 10baseT 3Com switch!!
I have all of those feelings myself actually :) Overall I'm excited to see what happens.
It's more than the 80/20 rule, it has to do with how people perceive the notion of work. It used to be we would let the computer do the work for us and we'd kick back and read mad magazine. Now it's the other way around and the tools are driving us instead.

And it's because in our rush to not get corporate like those people we despise, we've become even worse than them and our desire to fit in and gain acceptance and recognition have caused us to go all out like the fellow on the bike and we're just causing pile ups which would be better off if we cleared the road.

Everyone has several people on their team who would do well to just stay home and let the others do their thing.
Things are still unequal with UBI - if you get $2k a month, billionaires are still billionaries. It can make being poor less dangerous; e.g. homelessness, car repossession, lack of basic necessities can stop being a thing.

I sometimes think really that a good alternative would be Universal Protected Net Worth. Maybe things would be better if there was some floor of money and assets below which no court or legal proceeding could take from you, including taxes, fines, bail, judgements, seizures, forfeitures, etc. I don't know how that would work in practice.
John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son
It may be unwinnable. But if nobody on any side is happy, that may mean that Facebook is actually getting it right.
Syria is largely a result of foreign interference. Namely, Iran early on and Russia since 2015. Without them, Assad would've been done with 7 years ago. Libya, where international community did stop the dictator early, ended up infinitely better even with ongoing civil strife. It's like an A/B test for non-interventionism.

The coup in Egypt was so swift that there was no time for then hypothetical Islamist dictatorship to form.
if I may suggest a refactoring : "15 years" is 30% less characters than "1.5 decades" and it's less surprising too
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You think your other sources of information are better? You're sure that Hacker News isn't an echo chamber?
I don't get forced reboots either. I'm running a stock Windows 10 Pro, and I haven't changed very many settings from the default. I'll get a notice that I should reboot to get an update about once a month, but not a forced one.
It's terrible at least in my burbs.

The cynic in me thinks that Nextdoor is just proof that the fundamental thing that makes social media terrible - being a megaphone for egos, pettiness, and narcism - are not overcome by real identities and scope. In my group, there are people that like to stir the pot, and then there are people that love reacting to the stir.
Curing disease is actually a much better illustration of "why won't VC/capitalism fund the 'right' things?"

It is much more profitable to charge recurring "subscription" payments for treatments to keep you healthy-ish, rather than to give you a one-time cure that actually fixes you or removes the disease entirely. This already is a thing: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patie...

There is simply no way to align healthcare with capitalism, without creating perverse incentives around every corner.
Why does a victim of sexual assault need to report to someone who has a gun? Why does a wellness check need to be performed with a gun? Why does a standard highway patrolman or cop doing routine speed traps need a gun? Why does every cop in a school need a gun? Why is the gun the constant?
It's a good play. See pictures of your ex-boyfriend with his new girlfriend and feeling a little blue? What's better than a nice hot shower and a pint of Ben & Jerry's?

That coupled with brand recognition and I'm surprised companies don't spend more than they do.
I would bet that marketing departments for companies like Unilever have a hard time showing ROI on Facebook advertising. Why not get some marketing attention for cutting your spend?
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Yeah. Loading the GUI widget toolkit once rather than 30 times is pretty nifty.
Billion of people do. And if you are smart and leaving you may ponder this quote from Plato: "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Their story may be accurate but they misrepresented the politicians story, re seeking out vs being invaded by a wild pack.
Again, the set of actions that would drive a reasonable person to use deadly defensive force is much larger than those where the subject is actually (with perfect knowledge) trying to kill the officer. E.g. a suspect might shoot at cops in order to get away, not actually trying to kill the officers.
> A large company can benefit from massive economies of scale that create an impenetrable barrier to entry. e.g. Wal-mart, Barnes and Noble, mobile phone networks. In certain areas, once you amass enough power, you have the power to crush competition, no government interference necessary.

Isn't it interesting that the huge companies today are newish companies? How does that fit into your theory? What happened to IBM, Sears, RCA, the unstoppable juggernauts of yesteryear?

> You can't write this off as "government interference"

That's exactly what it is. And isn't it ironic that people who want to replace free markets want to replace it with a far more powerful government? Wouldn't that imply far more corruption?
Sprig's food and delivery was pretty good at times, but the whole thing was so archetypical of venture backed insanity in SF and Silicon Valley. "We're going to throw a ton of money at X and disrupt it with our complete lack of industry knowledge and make a fraction back."

It was essentially a decent restaurant with convenient delivery, and no eat-in option. There's no magical hockey-stick growth curve to be had in the restaurant business. The marginal cost to delivery another meal or add a new customer is pretty similar at N as it is at N+1 or N+1000.

How did they get investment with that (lack of a) business model?
Exactly! There's always going to be that one guy trying to prove he's a 10x that'll trek out all on his own into the wilderness in the middle of the night and then a bunch of others who will follow because that's she start-up way
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Hmm, is this still happening for you? Looking at the database, it looks like your artists should be populated.

Sometimes it takes a minute or two to load artists - Spotify's API rate-limits pretty aggressively.
> There is no pacifist society, and hiding the violence under a veil will do us no good

I never suggested hiding violence under a veil, or claimed that there is a pacifist society, and I agree that we would all do well to understand the concept of the monopoly of violence and how it is the least bad way we know of to backstop all the rights we enjoy.

What I said is that we shouldn't start the process of day-to-day law enforcement with the use of violence, unless the individual being apprehended is demonstrably violent or threatening to be violent. I'm talking about the actual procedure of law enforcement, not debating theories about
pacifism.

Actual violence should be reserved as a last resort only, not just for unarmed black men like George Floyd, but even for the people who refuse to surrender illegal firearms. They should all be given a chance to comply with the law without escalating things to an actually dangerous situation.

And this needn't be a partisan issue by the way. Sen Rand Paul(R) has introduced legislation to ban no-knock warrants [1], which are prime example of how police often use violence upfront in circumstances that don't require it.

1. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/11/rand-paul-bill-end-...
Tesla knew its Model S battery had a design flaw that could lead to fires
What say someone picks it up to read it. It's designed to be activated by being pulled from the top, the same way someone would pick it up.
‘Mark Zuckerberg is the biggest oligarch in the history of mankind’
I'm not sure I understand the first link you posted: if a binary is statically linked, why does it need a GOT? It's literally calling functions in its own binary…
Depends on your ideas of "mainstream"; I expect nixos and gentoo are both happy to do such rebuilds for you. But, as you note, the real pain is that glibc really doesn't want you to do static builds... I wonder how gentoo and/or nixos support is for musl...
Swing and a miss, overpolicing has nothing to do with violent crime. It has to do with nonviolent infractions that marginalize people to begin with. Being actually caught with illicit substances , or caught for the unpaid ticket.

These things are evenly distributed across society, but when overly targeting minorities it further marginalizes them.

Exhibit A) YOU might not be able to relate to people that routinely have a bag of coke on them, but a proportionate demographics of the population do.

Exhibit B) Silicon Valley openly brags about microdosing acid to perform at work at their half million $ jobs. Overpolicing would ensnare them if overpolicing existed in that demographic and then they would be ineligible for jobs the rest of their life. If you cant be subsidized by your family then you have actual crime to consider. Guess where you will live too.
Why would you not receive upstream bug fixes with statically linked programs? Assuming you are using an Apt-style package manager then the statically linked program would be rebuilt and updated too.

If you are not using an apt-style package manager then the program must include all of its dependencies (except ones that are guaranteed to be present on the platform, which is none on Linux and a few on Mac/Windows), and you will receive bug fixes when that program is updated, whether or not it uses static linking.

Static/dynamic linking does not affect how likely you are to get bug fixes in any way as far as I can tell.
Those all sound like reasons to apply to YC. :) We've funded a good number of companies at this point that were farther along when they applied and had millions in revenue (MessageBird, for example, who was just on HN a couple days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23624854). I recommend reaching out to some of those alum and talking to them about their experience.
This is the one thing that can be use to easily tell apart people who have been truly close to lightning, and those who only think they have.

Lightning is a powerful event and even if you're not that close to it, it can appear overwhelming and make you think you were much closer than you were. People who have experienced this talk a lot about what it looked like.

Everyone I know who has truly been close to a lightning strike unfailingly mention the sound above all else.
A better approach than frozen mini-nets is just to require any company above a certain number of users to open its protocol like email. You could then get your access to the system via any ISP, and you would be the one who decided what opinions were allowed to reach you by who you subscribed to without the mandatory "safety service" provided by a single party. They could still offer that service as an option but wouldn't be able to mandate it.
That range is true in a typical household setup with an omnidirectional antenna and things like... walls.

If you have line of sight though and a fixed point to point link the range is much greater, since there's nothing in the way and an dish antenna gives you huge gain.

https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switc...
Even better would be to measure sharing in the totality of programs you use directly and indirectly from boot.
can you explain the optimisations that are possible in RxJava?

Here's the fundamental problem that reactive programming solve:

Here's a kotlin function from
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coroutines/flow.html#s...

suspend fun foo(): List<Int> {
delay(1000) // pretend we are doing something asynchronous here
return listOf(1, 2, 3)
}

This function is not reactive but it is at least async.
suspend ~= async keyword in js or C#
As you can see its return type is not colored: List<Int>
In inferior languages you would have a Promise<List<Int>> and need to check yourself for its resolution before accessing the value. (Promise == CompletableFuture)
But this is not what matters here

This example function is will be executed asynchronously, it will do processing on a list then return the list. It means that it will need to wait for all elements of the list to have been processed each before being able to use the result.

The big idea is that with reactive streams we can process list elements asynchronously, individually
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coroutines/flow.html#f...

fun foo(): Flow<Int> = flow { // flow builder
for (i in 1..3) {
delay(100) // pretend we are doing something useful here
emit(i) // emit next value
}
}
A flow is just an asynchronous list, an array of CompletableFutures if you want.
Each time you emit() a value from the flow, the processed element will be received at call site, on demand
Beyond this base idea, reactive programming add on to of it many useful concepts like:
Cancellation primitive, automatic multithreaded dispatching, lazy or eager evaluation, many things and the ability to choose a specific scheduler (a blocking io friendly one for example)

Reactive streams are fantastic ideas but API wise even with reactor it needed a lot of boilerplate and had incidental complexity.
Kotlin flow bring the best of both world and is to me the state of the art asynchronous programming model, transcendanting goroutines.
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Because third party runs are pointless in the US presidential election, and if anything would detract from the closest ideological candidate, making it more harmful than doing nothing
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The major reason that upload speeds tend to be far lower is that they are the lowest part of the spectrum on a cable network. As everything on a shared cable network is receiving everything else, encryption and noise filters are imperative. The higher the frequency of your noise, the more likely it is to cause issues on the rest of the hardware. There are high-pass filters all over the coax network to ensure that nothing over a certain frequency is able to get out on the network and screw things up for other customers. In order to expand the bandwidth by making the coax frequency pie larger, CATV providers would not only need to replace everybodys equipment to ensure it could handle the increased noise but also check every single meter of cable to find and remove all the high-pass filters.
No, I think I will continue to point and laugh at idiots on this site. It’s fun and easy because everyone here thinks VERY highly of themselves. For proof see your own comment.