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Of all the reasons to boycott Facebook, why did it have to be their free speech / anti-censorship policy?

I am proud to have avoided Facebook for years now due to privacy and abuse of skinner-boxing
In the US, ISPs were a common carrier from 2015 through 2017, when the Republicans revoked that: while they might not let you say anything you want on the servers they own, they couldn't terminate your contract for you saying legal things on the servers you own.

Perhaps that regulatory regime will return. Maybe even next year. Not under a Republican-led FCC, of course.
TBH, there are a lot of other factors that make Germany a decent place. A less polarized society is one of them, a representative parliament another. IMO, it takes more than a law to keep it civilized.
I’d love to send that message but the other team seems dedicated to throwing the game. Biden is garbage
The game publisher is the judge in this case. Not everyone will agree with the judgement of course but I don't think there is something inherently wrong with that.
This effect is even stronger in certain countries where Facebook pays ISPs to zero-rate their pages, so many people only have access to Facebook because they can't afford to access the rest of the internet. If you think clickbait headlines are bad, imagine not having the ability to even click through to the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Zero
Ask HN: What's your preferred method of learning something completely new?
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If my local neighbourhood drug dealers are any indicator they recruit by word of mouth. A friend knows a friend who knows a friend who has a few attractive job offers so if there's somebody to vouch for you, a meeting is arranged.

They usually have some front business. "My guys" had a small logistics operation(obviously) - a single tractor trailer. Apparently the local liquor store was involved as well because it was run by the same people.

How do I know all this? Some of their trades, meetings and even disagreements happened out in the open. Nobody dared to be too curious about this. Also my friend's ex boyfriend was a drug dealer so she had a few stories to share.

I still vividly remember this one time when I saw one man handing out brick-shaped packages which were inside a car trunk to another man. At first I didn't know what I was looking at, but seeing how my eye contact made them uncomfortable I stopped staring and went on my way.
It depends on your goal. If you want to measure the number of "artificial synapses" or connections, total parameters is the right figure to use, because each weight is one such connection. If you want to measure the computational cost of training or inference, then wallclock-hours and FLOPs would be better figures.

The 100's of trillions of connections (synapses) in the human brain are sparsely used -- i.e., your entire brain doesn't light up in response to every single stimulus. But we still talk about 100's of trillions of synapses when we refer to the size of the human brain's connectome. It's a perfectly valid way of measuring model size.

More to your point, the authors measure the computational cost of training in Table 3 of the paper in TPU-core-years for the various mixture-of-expert models, and compare them to an always-densely-used variant.
Animal Crossing players are building in-game memorials
This is a classic chicken and egg dilemma. Can an egg incubate other eggs before it's a chicken?
Explain which law are you referring to here?
It was very much over slavery. The entire economic system of the south depended on chattel slavery, and the south didn't really recover economically for a century.

And despite the idea of it being over the abstract idea of "states' rights", the confederate constitution mainly reduced a state's right to make choices for itself. It was pretty much a clone of the US constitution, with a clause that states couldn't ban slavery if they wanted to.
Mexico is still a country and their flag is still flown. The confederacy was only around for 5 years.. that's a pretty significant difference.
Google has a well known, and well documented history of donating to open source projects to get their own products added as defaults. Combine with a for-profit company (RedHat) who does not disclose all of their financials (and that’s their prerogative), and it’s a perfectly reasonable question to ask.
Add to that a wast amount of shitty articles written fore the sole purpose of SEO.
They got a salary in return. They did not ‘help him’ build the company. They were paid to do so. They didn’t take any risk working for a salary. Employees don’t inherently deserve anything other than a salary. It’s a matter of incentives
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Haha. Anchorhead and Slate.

Slate got some bad press last year on labor practices at their stores, but they still roast excellent coffee.

If you're just outside of downtown either in SLU or south of Pioneer Square, Elm is good, too. There's also Bluebeard in Tacoma which is fantastic.
R-Ladies dropped some cross sponsorship and there used to be a datacamp ad link in rstudio clouds sidebar that got dropped.

They’re not sharing the link because it’s actually a fantastic piece of journalism and once you read it you get a picture for just how damning this is.
Titles! I think 1996 maybe helped this.
It’s so odd for people to mention it being a slippery slope. The confederate flag is a symbol of when traitors in our own country tried to rise up so that they could keep people as slaves. People say it was about state’s rights, yes the rights to keep people as slaves was a huge factor of it. There is nothing to celebrate here, the South wanted to unify and overrun the North. A lot of people died over this, it’s not worth celebrating there’s no heritage there worth putting on display. Full disclosure I grew up in the north, so it wasn’t until I moved out East that I ever encountered people that really tried to pass off flying the Confederate flag as a symbol of heritage. My belief is the Nazi flag is to Germany as the Confederate flag is to the US. They are symbols of hate and symbols of a dark past. The case seems clear cut, there’s nothing slippery.
Ghislaine Maxwell's father was almost surely a Mossad spy: https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Maxwell-Israels-Superspy-Gordo...
That's not true. Many people go to big cities and SV because of the jobs. If they had a choice, they would prefer to live somewhere else.
By sad I meant that the solution was mostly out of my control. Pure chance that it happened.
> deprecated in 2 years

They get security updates for 3 years (longer for enterprise devices). System libraries and builtin apps such as browser are updated via play store indefinitely.

But how many people _really_ use a phone more than 3 years?
Our current head architect is proud that he doesn't know any technical stuff. He has developers for that.
People don't want to see hateful shit in video games. You do not have god-given right to be shitty in a car game. Pull yourself up by the bootstraps and create your own community that tolerates hatred.
Companies aren't the only entities allowed to publish content on the World Wide Web, you know. You're free to build whatever discussion platforms you like, or you could just, y'know, publish a website.
What about the persecution and/or sterilization of a people?
The point is to be able to control the correlations that you introduce - so you can therefore control what your learning algorithm learns.
>falls under the same speech category as incitement and yelling "fire!" in a theater.

obligatory mention every time this gets brought up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18917746
Start your own blog.

The internet isnt just SV companies. There's nothing stopping you from creating your own platform that espouses your ideals.
I made a few close friends there in the chat, where other hacker wannabes and philosophy neophytes would gather. The chat forum had fun weird bugs that my friends and I would play with in order to edit past posts, or obliterate each other's posts. It was wonderful little corner of the web for a short while.

That was just one part of that great site. In 1999, the Internet still felt new and full of potential. I loved all the concept art posted there, the trailers, and finding easter eggs.

Years later I recreated the full chat for my friends, including the bugs. It
No, it wasn’t a factor that was emphasized later. It’s sometimes a conservative talking point that it was about ‘economics’ or ‘states rights’ but really the economics they were talking about was free labour from slavery, and the states rights they were talking about were the southern states rights to allow slave ownership.

Slavery was always the main issue. Anyone saying otherwise is just trying to divert attention from that fact or is totally ignorant or the history.
It is actually easy to get 2000 calories a day on cheap ingredients from fresh produce. It has to do more with dietary habits and convenience than anything else. A cup of beans and a cup of rice can cost less than a hamburger and provide you more than 800 calories while not creating long term problems for your body. A $50 instapot, and you don't even have to actively cook. But well, hamburgers are tasty because of all that salt and sugar, while rice and beans aren't.
The ability to fork and gain control if necessary is one of the main reasons one wants open source in the first place. So fork it.

Other than that: I find the microdependency / mass dependency trend in NPM very irritating. As a rule of thumb I think you should be able to know at least roughly all your dependencies + transitive dependencies and take some care that they're healthy projects. If you can't name them all - you probably have too many of them.
Multi application support and OpenXR overlay extension in Monado
Which is probably why it's been in the JDM tuning circles for a while.
And how does having active chips in a 1m cable help?
Please explain what law you are referring to - I have not heard anything of the sort.
Frankly, I consider this position to contribute much more greatly to the "reduction of politics to friend/enemy distinction" than any of the comments you're referring to. If a symbol of hatred is banned on a private platform and you consider that an attack on your politics, that makes it borderline impossible to believe that you are arguing in good faith.
Legal status of so called 'private companies', and their 'private property' is granted to them by the State. This distinction is meaningless, and another delusion of legal positivism, with the great tradition of making corporations people and babies not.

Besides this presumes something as in "hate speech" exists, let alone that some confederate flag is such speech. It's a not so subtle attempt at creating idea of "words as violence" and promoting arbitrary law enforcement and anarcho tyranny.

all around fake endeavour
In the 1800s, the North embraced industrialization while the economy of the South continued to depend largely on slave ownership. So, like you guessed, it's not quite race hatred; more like race superiority. Slaveowners didn't hate black people, they liked them a lot, and wanted them to keep working for free. The North was going to take away their free labor, and the folks with money and power in the South didn't quite like that. My guess is that race hatred came later, when the white slaveowners saw their former slaves succeed in business, education, etc., while their former plantations rotted.
Damn it! I told myself I would go here on my next trip to Seattle. Then COVID-19 happened.
> At least admit it proudly, that you are placing a punishment on vocalbulary

Yes I admit it proudly, I live in a country that places a punishment on saying hateful things. I’m pretty fine with it

> and imposing self censorship

Life in society is based around self censorship. I don’t run around the city center naked, I don’t shit in storm grates, and I don’t shout Sieg Heil.

> invading privacy

No I don’t think anyone cares what you say to your friends within your home. We just won’t let you say it in public
Many countries in the western hemisphere had slavery at the time.
Wow, rising sun flag is used in many games, since Japan is huge on games. First one that comes to mind is Street Fighter (E. Honda/Ryu stages and designs). This gon be interesting.
The only thing I'd like to see is a dark theme that follow the system settings. Other than that HN is perfect and loads blazingly fast.
I'm very interested in synthetic imagery in the maritime domain, and would be very interested in talking to you, if at all possible.
If you read the Vice article, it explains that they were compromised by on-device "malware" that was pushed in an update via the company provider (whose software update process had been taken over by the authorities).

So it doesn't matter what software they would have used since the device itself was capturing data before encryption and after decryption.
>with a link to the previous discussion

Some people are really bad at "information retrieval" (and some people are unusually non-worried about public pressure), so maybe finding a link into the previous discussion would've been more work for Poettering than what he actually did.
>When you have young children, your demand for... visiting local microbreweries diminishes, as there are now more things that occupy your time and attention

I totally agree and I'm sure the data supports it but before covid every brewery in Austin was packed with families. I actually stopped visiting many during the weekends because there would be dozens of loud kids with tired and defeated parents drinking nearby. It was annoying.
There are already many things that don't count as free speech based on case law, if something like that were to happen in the U.S. it probably wouldn't be an amendment rather a major supreme court case.
It's newsworthy because there's a pretty significant debate occurring in the US about how private companies can moderate speech in their spaces. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is being actively relitigated by both parties (though it's not clear yet if anything will come of it).
> Wasn’t that a factor that was emphasized later?

If anything, the opposite is true. You can read the declarations of secession for the southern states; e.g. see South Carolina's [1]. They seceded to protect the institution of slavery. Surely some people had other reasons to support secession, but this is the primary one. Decades after the war ended, there was a push to deemphasize slavery as a cause for the war for reasons of propaganda and nostalgia.

[1] https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp
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My learning too, "stop-gap" code isn't always short-lived.
I agree of course that companies should reply to people who contact them in this way (I am in fact in the middle of writing an email to do just that), but the who is hiring posts are not the place to cover this. That's the main reason we have the related rule at the top of the thread.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709307.
I’d encourage you to reconsider the article in context of the fact that CBT can be self-taught with no books or sessions - all of this advice is free, and each tip works independently of the others.

I do agree that open-ended talk therapy seems like a waste of time.
It's low effort if you have something like a crockpot. If you don't then you get a lot longer series of steps.
There is an amazing course on happiness from Yale: https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being
Slate and Anchorhead as mentioned in another response. Honorable mentions to Elm and Bluebeard.

I've actually spent many years in Sacramento and occasionally go back. Sorry, absolutely no worthy coffee there, but you'll have some great cocktail bars! Go try Shady Lady, Jungle Bird, and Grange.
Not saying they are without faults, but if that's all you get on them then they are pretty damn secure.
I think a photo of the Che is a hate symbol. It is glorifying a psychopath who killed without a second thought for a genocidal ideology. That's my opinion. So do I get to get it removed everywhere because it offends me?
Here's a chart:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

Many predicted doom and gloom and massive inflation when this started during the last recession, but that never came to pass.

I have no idea what will happen, and am kind of wary of everyone trying to sell a story. There are a lot of doom & gloomers who predicted 8 of the last 3 recessions, as well as "this is fine" optimists too.
Yeah, probably. They won't necessarily get all of the principle, but with the equity holders wiped out, there's probably enough to divy up.
The rising sun flag was adopted before the turn of the century many years before the war. The confederate and nazi flags were used explicitly for those hateful movements (post civil war racism and nazis). These are quite different.
>Sorry, I don't really understand why this is a problem. The alternative would be laying those people off and paying them via unemployment anyways, right? The idea was to keep people tied to their employers

If the alternative was laying people off, that is the free market at work. And there is no "keeping employee tied to their employers" as you claim, it is just free money to businesses for 8 weeks of payroll (+25% extra for non-payroll expenses like rent - so taxpayer paid rent for businesses, where is the taxpayer paid rent for taxpayers?). There is no promise or guarantee business will keep employees or even remain open beyond that 8 week period.

Finally, and most importantly, you touch on it:

>paying them via unemployment anyways, right?

Yes, this was about: 1) free money to businesses and 2) hiding the real unemployment numbers.

It was not about employees, if it was there are much better ways to go about it. At minimum law makers wouldn't have been allowed to pass the bill, create a brand new business, and obtain PPP loans for these new businesses (which would normally be prohibited, but both law makers and their family were excluded from these prohibitions against conflict of interest)
QE is much more than loans that get paid back. The fed's balance sheet actually went up by 4 trillion dollars during the 2008 recovery [1], even though the loan program was less than 1 trillion. Much of QE finances government debt. But the fed also still holds more than a trillion dollars of mortgage backed securities.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
We have all seen how instantly hosters, domain registrars and payment processors don't care for laws.
I mean I could see learning Rust being really hard if you only know something like Python or JS. The only "system", as you say, that is present in Rust that doesn't have something analogous in C++ is the borrow checker, and lifetimes still exist in C and C++. Rust is significantly simpler and easier to learn than C++
Somehow I feel like this is a milder version of "an armed society is a polite society".

Everyone has a gun? Rational people are theoretically less likely to try and piss people off, because they know everyone is carrying.

It's super-easy to sue people for hate speech? Rational people are theoretically much more likely to consider their words, because they know everyone can get their ass fined and possibly imprisoned.

(The obvious problems are of course that not everyone is a perfect rational being with no emotions or extenuating circumstances, and that there are people who will immediately start trying to game any system for profit - goading someone into doing something that gives you an excuse to punish them for Bad Behavior, whether via the gun in your pocket or the State's justice, is an old, old tactic.)
There is also more to life than big cheap houses. People to meet and things to do with them, for example. A pleasant and engaging public realm.
Reminder that wiki means quick, so when you read Wikipedia you only have surface knowledge,
> reduction of politics to friend/enemy distinction

There was a war about this. The enemies of the United States waved that flag.
I think his point is that at the end of the day, you're going to be dependent on someone. With a self hosted blog you're dependent on at least an ISP and registrar, both of which are private entities.
The Lincoln statue is kind of a special case, and it's obvious why from looking at it:

https://www.wcvb.com/article/boston-art-commission-unanimous...

As far as the others, clearly there is an Overton shift happening here, and that will embolden some advocates to make more extreme demands. Is that bad? Probably not, but I think most statues of Washington are likely safe for at least another generation or two, and if they get moved from the public square into museums at that later point, well, that's something the future will have decided on.
Much better than nothing.
Go has a runtime with a GC with a heap size, just like the JVM does. People will end up having to tune their Go runtime GC's parameters, too. Whether the runtime is executing compiled native code, or executing JITted bytecodes is of little relevance to the user.

What you're speaking to is the issues with a _separate_ VM process and a cultural thing with Java generally, not a VM in particular.
Can you elaborate why that statement is incorrect?

If B/G is high, G/B is low. But if P is a very high number G/B * P must be a decently high number as well.
They're just trying to ban something that may seem like it has logic so people accept it and normalize it. American flag might be next, and yes I would not be surprised if Mexican flag as well because of the "evil spaniards". This whole thing has no logic behind it, it's just hate and evil, and it has always started with censorship. Hence the FIRST amendment.
I’m not convinced that everyone who displays a Confederate flag is doing so out of hate (despite the history behind the symbol). It seems classifying it as a hate symbol and banning it only gives it more power as a hate symbol, and will also upset plenty of non-raciest southerners in the process.
The confederacy was founded to fight for slavery, because they believed people of colour to be inferior. It's the same reason we give "special treatment" to the flags of the Nazis, as their main goal and purpose was genocide.

Every country has committed various atrocities, but their flags do not necessarily represent those atrocities.

This isn't about the Confederates losing the war, and it's not about the southern states. No-one is asking for removal of all flags from the southern states. it's about what the confederacy stood and fought for. White supremacy and slavery.
They're almost certainly all paired with a transformer for isolation (unless maybe the whole thing is in a sealed module, but that would be rare). But it won't be a low-frequency high-loss AC transformer, it will be driven at a much higher switching frequency to minimize losses. That will also mean the core material will be different, though as I'm not a power supply designer I can't tell you the most appropriate formulation for such applications. Probably not silicon steel used for 50/60Hz AC transformers though, likely some sort of ferrite.

Basically not all transformers are equal. You need to get the properties right to match the application. In the case of their use as a component in an isolating DC-DC converter (or inverter, or other similar system) they're typically not mentioned separately, since the converter is usually a module.