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Speaking as someone who absorbs American media externally, there does seem to be a disconnect looking in.

About 40% of the America seems to still support Donald Trump, under most polls. It certainly isn't true that 40% of the media supports Donald Trump. As an external viewer, it's easy to imagine no-one was ever going to vote for Donald Trump, no-one ever supported him, and no-one supports him today, but that's clearly not reality.

Personally, I'd never have voted for him, but it's hard to understand why many of those who voted for him continue to support him, and it doesn't feel like the media is doing a good job here.
True. I don't make tiktoks and my friends are on IG. It's basically a private friends video journal for that use. My point was more about content discovery.
Great summary of everything I feel that has gone wrong at the NYT, cancel culture, and the left-wing gladiatorial combat that is trying to root out any hint of disagreement with orthodoxy now that all center and conservatives have been purged. I highly recommend reading this.

If you want more opinions from progressives that feel cancel culture has stifled free speech, is illiberal, and also illogical, listen to the Blocked and Reported podcast: https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/

Very brave people make that, and it's a breath of fresh air.
Agreed, the signal to noise ratio is poor, but there are some really thought provoking comments in there. Wasn't some decades old mathematical problem solved by a random 4chan post?

Curious what you mean by the freedom of speech not being what people think it is?
> Have you tried building a pagerduty in house?

Yup. Took an afternoon. I was being cheap, so you had to give it the name of the cell phone provider along with the phone number.

Most of what pagerduty does was unnecessary for the use case, so the clone was really simple.

Also, pagerduty is harder to manage than the clone (it just had a single text file with a line per user), again, for that use case.

So, time saved is negative per user. However, the clone probably would have been harder to admin over time. It might have needed about a developer-day per month.

Most enterprise tooling I’ve seen is really about shifting work between cost centers. It’s hard to model that in a simple calculator.
I've seen the same issue in the last 2 weeks pop up multiple times in the iOS dev slack channel and a few relevant subreddits.
Also reading the tone of her columns and the accusations she's made in them, I read anything she writes with a very large grain of salt...
Hard to find a bigger proponent of victim culture than Bari Weiss herself, though.
Why someone should tell me what I can or cannot install on my phone?
This happens and has been happening all over the Internet. IG won't be the last victim. As soon as corporate America figures out how to sell their Ranch dressing over a platform, the brands start invading and the whole platform turns vanilla and boring.
This seems weird because I’ve contacted GitHub Support dozens of times over a good part of the last decade and they’ve always been pretty responsive. Need to gc a repo? Usually done within the hour. Make a fork standalone? Same. UI complaints and suggestions? At least get a human response within a day or so, either explaining a decision or saying the feedback has been filed.

I guess abuse-related tickets can’t be handled by the usual responsive team(s).
Reads a lot like https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
Just stumbled upon this option in the AWS console today. Big pain point solved for me as I wasn't comfortable with customer's data potentially being seen by AWS employees (Rekognition). Hope other providers follow suit.

What I find strange is that this was apparently already an option but had to be requested via support?
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The education system, as always, sends the signal that should be received with great suspicion and scrutiny.
Here the case is slightly more complex: any game, however rich, is a closed system with predictable outcomes, while real life is all about choosing opaque options, rarely obvious.

Academia likes and itself all about first type: actually it is just another computer game, especially with recent remote/online movement. Surviving in real life situation like that, is nowhere near the computer game, but quite the opposite.
Hi Yogi, I'm guessing your Github account has been hijacked.

Support won't respond to your emails because it could be the attacker impersonating you, or he could still have access to your email and get info that way.

This is Standard Operating Procedure I've seen applied on stolen accounts in MMO videogames involving stolen credit cards and organized crime. Sometimes wait time was 6 months with no contact, because they needed to keep the evidence under seal for the police investigation and avoid tipping off the attackers.

Your 2-letter nickname and access to important projects makes your account a high-value target.

Did you have 2FA enabled?

edit: usually the email account got hijacked first, defeating the 2FA/1-time token. SMS is also easily hackable.
Have you tried https://blog.quantinsti.com/

Your question got me thinking too and I found that on page 3 of DDG.

It's something I'd quite like to know abit more about too.
All the SF bay area school districts I'm aware of are opening in online-only mode, at least for the first few months.
> mocking the victim culture

So, intimidation?
Twitter the company shouldn't be a steward of the Twitter the tool, too - do you agree with that ?
To add to this, the author gives Twitter a lot of weight as the culpable factor.

So many important people by now see the birdsite as a genuine net-negative yet it keeps chirping along with no changes. A bit baffling.
I wonder how much BMW/Daimler/Volkswagen had to do with this.

It is a common practice for technology companies to offer features that will only become available after a certain time period. It actually takes time and money to build these features.

I'm sure the fact that BMW/Daimler/VW have completely botched their EV/Autonomous vehicle strategy and the automotive industry is Germany's cash cow has nothing at all to do with the court's decision.

Disclosure: I do not any automotive companies stock, and I am a dual US/German citizen.
The masthead lost all credibility with this article [0] days before the election. They did spend lots of time and effort understanding the rest of America (sure, that’s fine and good) with little understanding or reflection of their own impact.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-el...
> a typed language is a typed language
Well yeah, but not every type system is equal. For example I vastly prefer Rust's type system to C's because of Options instead of null and enums as sum types.

> what other features would make me pick rust over golang
Generics, iterators, pattern matching, etc. There's lots of features Rust has that golang doesn't; that's not necessarily a good thing but for what I do it is. IMO the only good thing about golang's featurelessness is the compile times and the standard library.

As for interpreted languages, IMO it's just better to be able to catch errors at compile time.
Do what the accountants do: close the old books and open new ones. Initialise relevant accounts with sums from the old books.

Edit: that said, I've found spreadsheets to be some of the most convenient ways to do high-level double entry. Just so you don't assume you need to learn a new tool to do it.
There are many things I disagree with Weiss on, including her previous flirtation with cancel culture, but by attacking her with an article from 2 years ago instead of addressing what she is talking about directly is not really honest debate.

There is a cleaving point coming for those who believe in Liberal values and the nyt has already chosen the side of extreme ideological orthodoxy.
Maybe for media, crypto, things like that, but we all have the source for the C-standard libaries, and there is not all that much assembly in there given the size of the code base.

Certainly you have required architecture instructions for things like instruction scheduling (isync/dsync), stack manipulation (setjump/longjump and others) or floating point, but though it looks like a lot of assembly source, it is really just a little bit for each of the many supported architectures in the tree. And most of it isn't performance related, it is just plain required because architectures vary on things like instruction scheduling and stack/cache manipulation.
In addition to the other replies, is path finding even enough? I think a lot of the hard part is dealing with arbitrary obstacles in the road which won't be playing nice with the centralized system.
This was probably the most brilliant advertising scheme of all times. Tesla is not just an electric car, it's the self driving car brand - even if it doesn't actually do that.

I believe banning this kind of advertisement will only cement Tesla's image as the "Self Driving Car company" as no other company would be able to replicate it. People will continue to post memes about self driving Teslas but no one else would be able to claim anything like that up until they actually make a self driving car, and if they do it before Tesla, when people hear about it they will say "Oh cool!, So just like a Tesla?".
The problem with this line of reasoning is that the general public has an inaccurate understanding of what airplane autopilots are capable of. The belief that modern airline pilots just push a button to turn on the plane then take a nap until the plane lands is widespread.

In naming their system after a system the public has a poor understanding of, Tesla is being misleading.
Tom Cotton is a sitting US Senator. Denying him op–ed space is in no way tantamount to "silencing" him.
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Yeah hard to take seriously someone who was "masquerading as an opponent of viewpoint intolerance" while simultaneously being intolerant of any viewpoints that aren't pro-Israel
Keeping a customer by giving them a discount actually earns you more money that losing a customer by being difficult.
> Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.

In other words, the New York Times isn't leading. It's following the crowd on Twitter. And in abdicating the role of finding out the truth and saying it, the NYT gave up relevance. (We don't need them to echo Twitter. Twitter does that just fine. And we don't need them for performance theater, either - we've got Broadway.)

> There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one...

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya

Can't anyone there see past the current insanity and think? "To be inclusive, we have to get rid of her"? Don't they even hear the words coming out of their own mouths?
UK to purge Huawei from 5G by end of 2027, siding with Trump over China
illegal immigrants being detained. not a labor camp, sure. concentration camp, sure
There seems to be more and more public acknowledgement (and in fora like this one) of the myriad leftist 1984-style attacks we are currently witnessing - every bit as bad as the McCarthy era led by the right.

As appalling as the behaviour of these people is, that growing awareness can only be a good thing.
UK smacks Huawei with banhammer: Buying firm's 5G gear illegal from year-end
This is the latest argument from people who claim cancel culture doesn't exist. "How are you being silenced when everyone will read it from your high perch?"

High-level writers need to push back against illiberal and anti-free speech proponents to give cover for the lower ranks. If even the top tier writers can't speak their mind, does the lowly intern or new hire stand a chance?
I understand the gist of the message. Grant is an engineer, and we relate to him in more ways than we do to a singer or a movie star. So a singer or a movie star's death might not have as big of an impact as someone who is "our own".
7T scanners for structural imaging is amazing, hands down. I dream daily of being able to move on my the 3T I get to work with for brain volumetry.
Whether the decision was influenced by German car makers, I think the decision is correct. The car is not fully autonomous and requires your hands on the wheel all the times.
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It's not mocking. She, like many on the right, is a vocal "victim".

And she's realized that there is more money to be made by claiming right-wing martyrdom than there is in writing faux-centrist think-pieces for the NYT.
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>Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions.

There is an submission on HN "Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter?"

I guess we know Bari Weiss's answer.
The journalists are heavily involved in twitter controversies and end up smelling their own farts a bit too much, and suddenly twitter nonsense shows up as news.
Bari Weiss has been a proponent of censorship and "cancel culture" since her time as a student. She's a hypocrite.
Purely anecdotal, but knowing a couple people who work at the NYTimes, there is definitely a right way to operate there. You can cruise by taking the same stances and retweeting the same tweets.

Bari Weiss never seemed very principled in her stances though, so I don't think she's a good counterpoint.
> Sometimes I read things on HN and wonder if I'm living in some alternate universe by myself. I would never in a million years, allow someone else to remote-operate a robot in my house. The idea of even allowing something above Roomba-level intelligence in my living area is a no-go.

Mmm...I guess it's fair to assume that the IQ of a human cleaner is superior to anything resembling a Roomba. Would you hire a human cleaner and grant them access to your living area? And if so would you be monitoring their every move while they go about the job?
Send an email with the request to hn@ycombinator.com My guess is it will not be allowed until it gets support from most major browsers.
GPS is already beacon infrastructure that tells cars where they are on the streets :)

It cleverly got around our allergy to spending on infrastructure by being cold-war-era military technology.
I mean, Weiss herself attacks the NYT for a two-year-old interview with Alice Walker, although she's not especially upfront about it, preferring instead to talk about an interview from May while describing - and in a highly tendentious way, at that - the controversy over Walker's 2018 NYT interview.

Live by the gun -
"All Tesla cars come with Full Self Driving Capability"

they even replaced - hardware to - capability to be even more ambiguous.
Almost every distributed system (including "simple" client-server systems) is eventually consistent. And all systems are distributed.

It's great that your DB is ACID and anyone who queries it gets the latest greatest but in reality you also have out of date caches, ORM models that haven't been persisted, apps where users modifying data that hasn't been pushed back to the server and a million other examples.

I'm sure it's possible to create a consistent system but I'm also sure it's not practical. No one does it.

Instead of constantly fighting eventual consistency just learn to embrace it and its shortcomings. Design systems and write code that are resilient to splits in HEAD and provide easy methods to merge back to a single truth.
https://github.com/workarea-commerce/workarea is another great choice.
is anything with a motor a robot? of course there is a hierarchy, with the stepper-driven open-loop machine he gave as an example being further down the ladder.
>Do regulators have an idea of what test a car needs to pass to be able to claim certain things? It there were levels of tests and passing each gave you better rating, that might give everyone an idea of there the system is.

The 'five levels' of autonomy are fairly well established by now. Full autonomy generally is defined as driving capability that does not involve human attention, that is to say it is what the name suggests, the vehicle drives itself, you could ship it to the consumer without a steering wheel.
Couldn't you just submit your Gemini URL using the proxy?

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/your_gemini_site
Wait. We're only hearing it from one point of view. Rather than calling for action, should we not also hear other view points or do some investigation or research first? Isn't knee-jerk calls to action contributing to what you seen to fear?
Because I found it entertaining -

If we assume it takes about 15 seconds to chug a bud, and that an eagle's wingspan is about 6ft, this leads to 528ft/15s, or ~24Mph.

Either you need a faster car, you chug your beer quickly, or you grow some oversized eagles.
Hey @fouc, thanks for the feedback.

I agree the links on all those company icons is unnecessary. I just put it over there in case people didn't know the logo.

About the TOC, I believe you might have missed that. It's on the "What's inside?" section of the site.

GAGMASS - that's funny :P
Care to elaborate for people who don't already know what you're talking about?
Confused how I appeared there - even though I can deduce it now. It's a very strong feeling of missing information that does not go away even after she tells me.
Tesla conveniently used a word where it actually means something far simpler than what the general public knows it to mean.

Tesla knew this but they did it anyway because $$$.
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I keep seeing and hearing this sentiment, but I think it is a false dichotomy. There have been places that responded effectively to the crisis without lockdowns (Iceland, for example). The choices are not strict, widespread, extended lockdowns or no response at all, with nothing in between. We may yet find that those who undertook either of those strategies have both poor economic and health outcomes.
Problem is that there are so many services that integrate with github directly that moving to other alternatives will also require moving/replacing those 3rd party services.
"And so self-censorship has become the norm."

This might be the most ironic and most dangerous effect of this "right think" regime: that the free expression and exchange of ideas is thwarted in advance because one doesn't want to deal with drama, fight, or insults that come with saying something not in lock-step with the prevailing group-think. This blunts the curiosity of the intellect and silences all true disciples of knowledge and science if what they say -- even if they have the math to prove their point -- contradicts the currently popular "common truth."

For this to be happening at what was THE preeminent example of American freedom of the press is chilling... and Orwellian.
I don't know if it's true, but I recall reading somewhere that working class people tend to tip Uber drivers more, because "they know what it's like" to have that kind of job.

If so, that's a really twisted form of price discrimination.
My kids do their Computer Science course at school in VB.NET here in the UK. I understand it's also possible to do it in Python, but they don't offer that at their school.
I hesitated before upvoting the OP, and even considered flagging it, given its controversial author (with whom I disagree) and its potential to fuel ideologically driven, opinionated arguments (in which no one wins and everyone loses). However, I decided to upvote the OP because I feel it is, in the end, about a topic that is of utmost interest of -- and widely considered important by -- most people on HN: free speech.

FWIW, this resignation letter strikes me as unfair to those it accuses, because the author provides zero concrete, specific examples of the constant public bullying she claims led her to resign from the New York Times. The accused cannot argue or defend themselves against generic accusations.
Yes I have 2FA and MFA enabled!
Those are fascinating, and give me a glimpse into a world I didn't even know I found interesting.

One major difference (that some may care about less than I do) is that the TikTok format is great for seeing a variety of content, but does little to help me create. Admittedly, YouTube is filled with lots of filler information (to please their own algorithms) but I could probably figure out what cameras/lights to use, software settings, how to edit, etc... The best TikTok can do is show me what others are capable of.
Unless there's proof she's changed from then until now, I think it's a rather relevant proof of hypocrisy and that one should rightly doubt whether what she's saying now is just more of the same
I think that many people confuse "de facto standard" with monopoly. There are certainly other services that can do most if not all of the things Github does, it just doesn't have the audience.

Does GitHub do anything to actively prohibit the use of it's competitors?
The issue is one of definition. I don't know why people associate autopilot with a definition that isn't autopilot.

An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without requiring constant manual control by a human operator. Autopilot does not replace human operators. Instead, autopilot assists the operator's control of the vehicle, allowing the operator to focus on broader aspects of operations (for example, monitoring the trajectory, weather and on-board systems) [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot
Some can land in some conditions. However take off is still done by pilots in everything other than a few experimental aircraft.
I believe people who switched from weed to meth share a similar experience.
Respecting video games is great, but like you don't respect a movie as "the best meal I ever had", you also don't respect a game by putting it in a "recommended reading list".
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Your change.org petition says 08/07/2020 which hasn't happened yet. Not in the USA at least :)

You should probably change that to 07/08/2020 if you're targeting American audiences.
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because without them, nature would be a constant foe rather than something we can enjoy.
Whoa, cool it with the Anti-Semitism there buddy! /s
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Common Sense does not appear to be very common then.
But say that we are pragmatic and realistic.

What kind of democratic solution do you see us humans make in the first three decades of this problem (when it really starts to hurt a lot of people)?

And what kind of realistic solution would be better?

I ask because I don't see many good solutions in my life time that will solve any of this. As you can guess I'm skeptical of UBI where people can live comfortably in the first decades due to culture and I'm from northern Europe.
Exactly right. Something like 97% of news coverage is critical towards Trump.

I'm not sure what that number should be, but 97% seems like there is a deeper and systemic issue.