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This answer might be ok for some regions, but is not a good answer globally. Zika, west nile, chickenguya (sp?), malaria, EEE, etc are real health concerns in many parts of the world.
That’s not a valid excuse for people who rely on these services professionally. The ability for companies to errantly and permanently ban people without any kind of due process is unacceptable.

If we as a community truly care about OSS and the people behind it, this kind of error cannot be tolerated. It flies in the face of everything that the open source community stands for.
I did that before posting, but the wikipedia page says

> unschooling is often considered a subset of homeschooling

And further down

> Unschooling is a form of home education, which is the education of children at home rather than in a school.

which is why I asked what your interpretation of it is.
I didn’t say I supported it at all.

I merely said I don’t see how it’s worse than the major US social networks. Like say Facebook, which has been caught multiple times allowing employers and housing advertisers to illegally exclude groups like Black people, from seeing job postings and apartment listings.

Again, I don’t know that what TikTok has been shown to be doing is any worse.
kerri said it best "i wish i had a time machine some days" :( it sucks getting old and seeing truly wonderful people pass.

man i miss mythbusters. they all had such chemistry and it truly was a wholesome show. grant, kerri, adam, jaime and tory really became part of my life.

rip grant... you have no idea how many people you inspired.
We may find out very soon. If this blows up (and it really should), Gitlab may pull a move similar to their automatic migration utility from when Microsoft acquired GitHub.
I would say even a lot of very educated people, despite maybe having read about these topics, will still feel and act as if what they are perceiving is reality itself.

I'm actually very surprised to see so many comments here dismissing the article as something almost obvious.
If anything it is often the strongest at the base of the clouds from experience.

The top of the cloud is where it stops climbing.
This is a must read, and I’d argue it has a very different conclusion on programmers. They are all very different.
Decades ago when I was training I was lucky enough to work under a very smart engineer who taught me that the ergonomics of indicators and how people interact with them was important (and thus ergonomics itself is also an important part of engineering). The issue arose after I raised the question about why the indicator lights on the racks of communications equipment that we were developing in our prototype laboratory did not light up when the power was applied.

He explained that in large plants such as a telephone exchange where there were hundreds of racks of essentially identical equipment that the only important indicator when all the equipment was working was a lit green bezel at the base of the rack immediately above the plinth to indicate that the rack had power. Thus a tech peering down a row of racks all of whose bezels were alight was informed immediately that all those racks were working. If a bezel was not lit then power to that rack had failed.

Indicators on individual items of equipment in the racks remained off unless a fault developed within the unit upon which a red indicator would light up. Maintenance and faultfinding was much quicker if the presence of a light indicated a fault rather than no light at all. If the tech peered down a row of racks and saw a red light he knew exactly where the fault was located.

This went hand in hand with what's known as the fuse indicate which is a led or globe in series with a resistor and wired across a fuse. Only when the fuse failed would the fault light appear (because of its simplicity such indicators are highly reliable).

Simply, using too many indicators is confusing. Unfortunately, these days, the baubles, bangles and beads brigade of designers who use leds for just about everything has never understood this. Similarly that green indicators should be used to indicate power is present and red to indicate fault. Unfortunately, no one bothers with these conventions anymore.

The Christmas tree panels in submarines and in just-in-time manufacturing plants are similarly designed—strategically located/placed lights on the panels only light up to indicate trouble (such as water breaching a watertight compartment, etc.).

I've never understood why such an important subject as human ergonomics isn't mandatory in university engineering degrees.
I'm an Ex-Googler, I used to use Google but now I use duckduckgo :)
"The idea that a communist movement could have existed without KGB interference is equally absurd."

This was the case throughout Latin America. Castro, Bosch, Allende, etc. Furthermore there are no examples of the KGB interfering on the scale of the US (specifically the CIA) in places like Cuba, Chile, etc.

"Communists in the USSR (and backed by the USSR) stole property on a vast scale and murdered or enslaved people by the millions. The CIA did many bad things but it is very hard to out-do the USSR on evil acts."

All of which pales in comparison to the settling of the new world, America's settling of the west, etc.

If we want to focus on the 20th century there is nothing comparable to the use of nuclear weapons or America's actions during/after the Vietnam war where they engaged in the largest bombing campaign in history and use of Agent Orange.

"The US is a fundamentally mercantile country that found out the hard way (through two world wars) that non-interference doesn't work. It very reluctantly adopted the role of world police."

This is a lie. After the US expanded throughout the continent to their heart's content (by killing/removing the existing inhabitants) they began expanding beyond their shores as evidenced by their involvement in the Philippines and Cuba as well as their deployment of the marines in other areas of Latin America from 1898 on.

Cuba, in particular, was initially ruled as a colony until it was deemed too expensive. Then Cuba was granted its "independence" alongside the Platt Amendment, which gave the US de facto control over Cuba's domestic, foreign, and economic policy and resulted in them interfering regularly in elections, deploying marines to protect American property, etc.
Because I keep using their stuff, quite proactively, and productively, and when it breaks and its Apples fault, I can go back to them and get a new one, no questions asked, and get back on with using the thing.
> If people are being oppressed, why don't they leave?

It's not that easy. Assuming they can afford to leave, most cannot, the fact that they've lived their entire lives here and their whole support system resides here makes it hard. Many people aren't upwardly mobile, and things aren't bad enough to make them desperate.

> What product is worst and more expensive that you have in mind?

Privatized utilities. The pitch in the 90s was that you'd have a bunch of providers competing to offer lower rates and the result would be lower prices. The reality is that you pay a very high base fee (no longer subsidized in the rate), and then you pay a service fee to your provider. Most rates are promotional so once a year you shop around or call up your gas provider to negotiate like you would your ISP. Switching providers usually results in activation fees and other costs.

This works great for large consumers (e.g. factories, businesses) who pay lower overall rates but the poor suffer. An example, I used $1.76 in natural gas last month but my bill was $36. I paid more in taxes ($2.04) than I paid for the gas. People in my state pay $32 a month in fees for the privilege of being able to pay for gas. That's on top of the deposit people with poor credit have to put down.
> A common moral flaw I see in individualist cultures is thinking that "they gave consent" is a good reason to intentionally do something harmful to someone.

https://twitter.com/technocrypto/status/1283038543577788417
Other people (or maybe the same people saying dumb shit) also say brilliant things there. Dissuading use of a platform of a certain type over another (like this forum)is irrational.

We need better software for displaying said content, not banning the content entirely.

Also, freedom of speech isn't what most people think it is.
Is there an easy way to do that ? Some script available somewhere ?
Most of startups knows that if they need to succeed it must be self-hosted somewhere.

I'm not talking just for sources and repos. About servers too.
But think about the efficiencies and profits!
Absolutely. I felt like I was documentary producer as well as an educator when doing our online courses.
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I'm from California and what blows my mind is that places like gyms, bars, and restaurants were allowed to have people indoors before places personal care places like hair and nail salons, barbers, waxing centers, and tattoo parlors because all these professions (for the most part) follow good sanitization practices. And unlike restaurants and bars, these are not places you'd bring large groups as the services rendered are 1-on-1 typically. Liquor stores are still open, why are bars needed? I cannot cut my own hair (well) for example, and tattoo parlors, waxing centers, and salons all have specialty tools and services you simply cannot do at home.

Also, why are we not focused on making sure education is able to start back up in the fall? Why did we prioritize opening restaurants (who already has a revenue stream: togo orders) and bars? I get recreational stuff is needed, but the bars, for example should be among the last to open. It sucks for the business owner, and they need more federal support to stay afloat. How are paying this much in tax and getting nothing when we need it the most?
Thank you, you are right. Felt very powerless in empathy with yg.
I've avoided MSFT like the plague for 5 years. When they bought LinkedIn, deleted account. When they bought GitHub, stated using BitBucket. Same with Google. When they went to the dark side I moved to FastMail and DDG.

Long story short: don't give your time and money to evil corporations.
You would need a very long lag, around 40 years.

And a secret lag, one that no scientist, economist, politician or other expert has predicted or discovered. One effecting the whole globe.

And that huge lag cause would now need to suddenly stop causing lag (otherwise we're fucked).

And if you have all these factors, what would that mean? It would mean I was right, no point in further action, global warming was fixed around 1990 and no one noticed because of the lag!
I just saw a post on reddit where at a wedding, the wife gave her husband some similar glasses. Lots of crying. Many of the comments were similar to here where colorblind people said they don't help.

This makes me wonder if some new colorblindness glasses manufacturer is planting "viral" content.
recently there was a list on HN that estimated prices for exploits. I wonder how much this exploit would cost?
If you truly wish to avoid this kind of problems you should think about hosting your own platform rather than jumping to the next one. Just because the smaller players haven't done anything bad doesn't mean they wouldn't.

Gitea/Gitlab are crazy easy to set-up nowadays, especially with a fully working CI/CD setup (I use Gitea+Drone and I love it, Gitlab comes with its own)
The three laws or an equivalent thereof? Cite sources, please. I think it's equivalent to strong AI.
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Interesting concepts, given the book a purchase and will take a look this week.
There are alternatives to GitHub. Gitlab, bitbucket, and sourcehut, just to name a few.
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This seems to be a common problem around the tech industry as a whole. What would it really cost them to have even just half a dozen decent people running around doing support. I am sure they will be busy very quick too but it will help to maintain GitHub as a community focused site that aims to keep you productive after all git is a productivity enhancement utility.
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How much time do you all spend counting your fat stacks?
The incredible story of Ethereum, “The Infinite Machine”
This is true of far too many major platforms. The only way to get resolution is to yell as loudly as you can on social media or forums and hope it goes viral.

Truly terrifying how integral the internet has become and yet due process is nowhere to be found.
What community is that out of interest?
He's not taking legal action, he's shedding light on a real dick move with a shitty response from support. He's also allowed to do that.
Perhaps people still reading the rather long blog article?
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The over-usage of the "-gate" addition to anything that people take issue with is getting old as fuck. Seriously, can people not come up with something better? Also, is it truly a conspiracy? That's what an association to Watergate is... that or just breaking the law. neither of which is what is going on. I really, seriously doubt that Apple is conspiring to have their earbuds rattle.

Please, for the love of everything sane, stop using "-gate" to catch eyes with your clickbait captions and titles.
Thanks, this seems to help quite a bit.
The boom in single-serving everything as young South Koreans opt out of society
Jesus, is that some sort of proven statistic? Because if it's accurate that's orders of magnitude more than what I expected.
No wonder they seem to come out of the woodwork lately, but still, kind of chilling.
This is unhelpful. In a practical way, if you want to participate in open-source you very often must use GitHub. It is also unhelpful because it conflates what GitHub is legally allowed to do with what they should do. "They gave consent" is a poor basis for bad behavior and it cannot be normalized with a sniff and a "well, read the TOS".
> A common wrong answer was a human being.

> if you give the human a bicycle, then the human absolutely cleans up in terms of efficiency.

So the correct answer is a human being. Wait until Steve finds out about cars!
Everyone forgets that Tiktok bought Musical.ly which was an American product to get the market traction they have. The issue that seems more real than political speech is that US social media / internet companies are denied access to the Chinese market while we allow Chinese owned companies complete access to the US market. Seems like that is unjust.
Bought it! Looking forward to read it
Hundreds of people celebrated July 4 at a Michigan lake. Now some have Covid-19
in that case, using Facebook means you’re helping perpetuate white supremacy through the mass incarceration of Black Americans
Why is TikTok allowed to gain market share in Western countries? China banned Google, YouTube, Facebook, etc. while Chinese companies such as Baidu, Sina Weibo, WeChat were able to capture the entire Chinese market share.

It seems that companies not adhering to censorship cannot expand into China, however, Chinese companies adhering to censorship (e.g. TikTok) are able to expand into Western countries. Isn't this anti-competitive?
All big tech companies have a liberal thought police right now. Reddit for example was a place of freedom until 4 years ago and now it's a "1984 as a service". Facebook doesn't even let you express anything except for sharing cute cat videos or ultra liberal views.

I wonder if you posted anything that did upset their Gestapo knowingly or unknowingly because it doesn't matter. Maybe you used a variable than contained the word "blacklist"?

Maybe it was a mistake, maybe you did something wrong. But maybe you've been neutralized by the silicon valley thought police.
How exactly does using TikTok help China silence millions of camped Uyghurs? If we all switched to Facebook would their voices be heard?
> Intel actually had a similar tech without the RAM encryption some time ago, called TXT.

Given that RAM encryption is literally the core function of SEV, any functionality that lacks it is by definition dissimilar.
Still, to be fair, those are just short fragments of the Bible. Nobody asks kids to read the whole Bible. Also, at least when I was a child, we read Bible in comparison with other ancient texts. Last but not the least, so many books/poems are inspired by Bible, that's it difficult to understand them without at least glimpsing over the Bible itself.
Relevant Ted talk: "Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Set" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lyu7v7nWzfo
Do you have a link with a video or a visual explanation? I dont get what looking unwaveringly out of the eye closest to the camera means - what does it mean to look out of one eye?
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You can write a simple GitHub action that pushes your repo to GitLab/BitBucket etc every 30 minutes or something.
To be fair I'd rather not have a touch screen on my laptop to haphazardly poke and prod at
In my experience, most small startups, especially successful ones, rely on SaaS for as much as possible. The goal is to do as little as possible themselves.
I guess we’ll see how well the detainees in those ICE camps fare in the face of an out of control COVID outbreak.

I wouldn’t care to try to parse any moral superiority between how apologists want to characterize the ICE camps and how Chinese apologists want to characterize the Uighur camps, myself. Neither strikes me as terribly deserving of our defense.
It's about time that games get their due as great literature/media. Love it. So many great stories.
Compared to HyperCar from Aston Martin, Ferrari, Pagani, Koennigsegg and others the HeliHome is a bargain.

Hypercars didn't exist in 1977 and wealth inequality wasn't what it is today. Maybe Winnebago were just ahead of their time with this product?
>> because if I accept that system that would make me a loser

Exactly. Why would I participate in the mainstream system as a loser when I can be a winner in an alternative system?
Especially when that alternative system has more skilled, more hard-working people than the mainstream system.

The mainstream system rejects an alarming number of highly skilled people for arbitrary reasons. There are many cracks to fall through. These people need to join an alternative system which will value their skills and monetize them.
What race to the bottom? It’s a choice. People like having choices.
Well, I hated "Programming Perl" and stopped reading after 50 pages or so.

My favorite language introduction book is the K&R C book, it is of glittering elegance compared to the Perl book (and language)'s "quirky" style. Quirky is the very last thing that you want in a programming language. And I am not even that fond of C, at least with today's alternatives being available.
Compared to what? Governments that try to trade safety for the economy will end up with neither.
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Chargebacks against apple are a good way to get a lifetime ban from all Apple services...

No iCloud for you, ever!
It's a private company, it's very unlikely for them to outright push government propaganda. They'll probably just censor "political activism" on the platform altogether and someday if government establishes tighter control of the platform they might be forced not to censor some of it, like things that undermine the US government.
Behavioral Psychology really needs to be a general studies topic, introduced to secondary education.

I remember my local high school's motto when I was growing up was something like, "we're not here to teach, we're here to create good, informed consumers".

Never mind the obvious problems with that statement, but just considering it on face-value: how can people become good, informed consumers without having some kind of exposure to the concepts of how easily information can be collected about and used to manipulate people?

I don't expect most high school students to inculcate the full breadth of the topic, just as so few seem to actually learn and retain anything about history, social studies, or even the freaking alphabet (I've met way too many people who think the English alphabet has 25 letters). But currently, the general populace has no idea the extent to which they and their data can be manipulated. It would be enough if all they learned was "you and your data can be manipulated".
Btw IG discovery is mainly based on people you follow and things you like. For example I see more memes and tech stuff on IG than I ever do of yoga pants. If I see something I dont like I mark it as not interested.
Ask HN: How to Do Text Classification?
I would like to include text classification in an MVP I am building. Is there a recommended library, service or something similar I can just pick up and use? Or should I build it myself?

The use case is: I have a paragraph of text and I want to be able to say what topic it is about. e.g. Football, Technology, iPhone, Covid-19..
The problem is that you wouldn't need a dozen but rather 100+. Support doesn't scale well.
It's only fair that they all get a turn.
Haha, I enjoyed that. And it looks good. I may even be a return visitor!
Your statement and previous do not contradict. Multiplying the hours required to do the job in a larger environment like a hotel (4/week becomes 80 person hours / week) would produce a break-even cost higher than what you suggest.
I teach in college. In my opinion physical presence beats online teaching hands down for all but a few use cases.
In my experience the last three months a minority of students thrive by online teaching, another (slightly bigger) minority stumbles and falls, and the rest struggles.

As a teacher I feel way less effective as well.

I do not think there is a technical solution to this. If online teaching becomes the norm I will leave the profession.
it's a "superior" product because it's new and not yet commercialized. once it is, you'll get the same sort of gaming (influencer culture, ad placement, etc) that you see in every other social media
It depends on the goal: whether one wants human knowledge or something exotic/esoteric/supra-mundane/Divine/super-natural knowledge, etc. (In Semitic religions, God's revelation is Divine knowledge, which is independent of human knowledge). If one wants human knowledge, we can't allow fundamental contradictions. But the article has such contradictions; maybe, these contradictions are there in the Sanskrit text or in the 'interpretations' over the last 2000 years.

At least I know, Sanskrit text doesn't talk about 'transcendent'. The transcendent of the interpreters is "Para" in Sanskrit. In Skt, it simply means: other. Even in many Indian languages, the word "para" is heavily used: "paradesi","paraayi vaallu"(in Telugu), etc.

It is like importing Semitic theology to understand these Sanskrit texts. I don't want to blame the Westerners. Even Indian Sanskritists (or the so-called Insiders) are the biggest offenders here. They also bullshit as if they are dealing with some kind of literary text.
There’s a lot of false equivalence in these comments along with a focus on the app itself.

My worry is about CCP influence and their ability to both spread misinformation and at the same time suppress stories the party doesn’t like.

Easy current examples are the democracy protests in Hong Kong, and the sterilization going on in the Uyghur camps in China.

On Twitter you can talk about both things, on TikTok they will be shut down by the CCP and it’s set up in such a way that users wouldn’t even notice.

On Twitter you can also be critical of the USG.

That’s the risk to me, that the CCP turns down the knobs on speech they dislike and the public is too focused on dance videos to notice.

It’s an even greater risk to people like Joshua Wong, not only would his speech be suppressed on TikTok, but the company would also hand over whatever personal or location data they had on him to the government itself. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Wong)

The CCP should not be stewards of the services we use.