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>Do we want companies to do just what's legal or what's moral?

Content hosting platforms I want them to merely do what's legal.

It's not up to them to make moral decisions.

They could still make those (moral decisions) in other areas, e.g. paying their employees a good salary and not exploiting them, paying taxes, and so on.

>This is again the same old debate of whether is some sort of fundamental right to be served by Cloudflare or have your content hosted by Twitter.

I think that's mostly a debate in US culture, where the concepts about censorship begin and end with what some founding Santas said 3 centuries ago and its all about what the state can and cannot do.

In 2020, platforms are more important than the state for censoring. They even have larger revenue than entire countries GDPs, and they are also operated by people promoting their own culture and national interests, while catering to an international audience of billions. It's the ultimate soft power space and has vastly eclipsed the "public square".

So, in 2020, as opposed to 1920 where the public square might have been enough, having access to something like Google or YouTube should be enforced as a legal right unless explicitly cut off by court order (as opposed by corporate whim).

Even economically, if you think about it, think how Google search ranking for example (or lack thereof) could sink companies globally at the whim of Google operators.
And you wouldn't even know that another solution necessarily existed.

And you wouldn't necessarily know where to start.

And you would have the mental hurdles of "where do I start", "who do I listen to", etc.
jk rowling - they praise her when she said something they like. they want to cancel her when she said something they don't like.
Well, the fact that people are gradually moving towards REST APIs (sometimes even on the public facing side) at least suggest that some people clearly think that breaking the HTTP model was a bad idea. And I'm seeing increasingly many people that get annoyed with the bloated HTML pages that don't work without huge amounts of javascript and which break normal things like history or sometimes even scrolling.

Unlike the post I was replying to I'm not so much complaining about webpages that mimic (or are) standalone applications, I'm mostly complaining about webpages that have effectively built their own browser just to display some HTML documents.

Sure some stuff can't be done with a pure HTML document model (at least not without some kind of black-box html element), but plenty of stuff is just displaying some representation of content and (optionally) allowing people to manipulate it which really shouldn't require anywhere near the amount of effort people sometimes throw at it.
This is widely discussed in medical circles, but the real problem is a different one: It's sometimes hard to know what helps and what doesn't.

You may see something that may lead to a cancer. But you really don't know. It may be a) harmless, b) lead to a cancer, c) a mistake in your test. If it's b) then treating it early is good. If it's a) or c) then treating it early will ultimately harm the patient. If your test finds mainly a) and c) then your test may ultimately do more harm than good.
Original paper [1]:

> Here we report the preliminary results of PanSeer, a noninvasive blood test based on circulating tumor DNA methylation...

I’m very surprised that parts of the methylome, the per-cell state-machine that controls what genes are transcribed, have sufficient serum concentration to be detected. I suspect that this approach should work for any diseased cell targeted by the immune system as long as the disease results in a small but unique methylation signature.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17316-z
Private property is a monopoly on the use of natural resources granted by law and enforced by the threat of physical harm. As soon as you admit the possibility of competition for natural resources you have introduced law, and at that point the only question is who shall enforce the law and for whose benefit. There is no answer to that question that is provably correct, but so far "states, for the benefit of their political constituency" has been the answer that has overwhelmingly outcompeted all others, and the vast majority of effective political disagreement in the modern era is between statists regarding exactly how a state's political constituency should be defined and how best to benefit it.
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I wholeheartedly agree with "don't immediately jump on the modularize and abstract everything right away".

I think that "modularization and abstraction is always and uniformly good" is one of the big lies of our profession. It’s easy to see how it’s attractive : programming is intellectual work, and displaying capacity of abstraction is rewarding. I was extremely enthusiastic about that stuff when I was young, too. Then I got to school to get a CS degree, and it only reinforced it.

Now that I have some years of experience, let me talk to you about my last job. It’s a web app like most of us (I think) are doing. Backend in node. Frontend in react. The client was extremely unhappy about the delays and cost of their current contractor (weeks and 4-digit invoices for simple features), they wanted us to in charge of the app.

As soon as I received the source code, I looked at the backend part. It was incredibly clean for the standards of my younger self and CS teachers. Each class in his own file. You had one routes/_index.ts file that just included routes/users/_index.ts for /users, routes/blog/_index.ts for /blog, and so on (recursively: you would have routes/blog/comments/_index.ts too). routes/*.ts would be just that, declaring routes. Code was cleanly separated and implemented in controllers (controllers/users/_index.ts, and so one). Of course the controller didn't directly used the ORM, there was intermediate DAO classes to do that.

Very clean. Also, changing the slightest things required to go through 5-6 files. May god save your soul if you wanted to change more complex stuff.

I discarded everything. Most of the code now lies in /app.ts, which contains all routes. Each route is directly implemented in this file (no separate controllers) and directly calls the ORM (no DAO), except one which does complicated stuff and has his own implementation file.

Loccount on my "ugly, not modular" backend, which, incidentally, has many more features (that the client wanted for months but the previous contractor couldn’t implement for a reasonable price/time). And ~1/3rd of those lines are just some CSS assets moved from the frontend to the backend because we needed them for the mailing list:

all SLOC=2284 (100.00%) LLOC=0 in 13 files

Loccount on the "very clean" backend of the previous contractor:

all SLOC=12507 (100.00%) LLOC=0 in 262 files

Now, don’t get me wrong. Abstraction and modularization are not uniformly and always bad. But they have to make sense. Don’t write and organize a 2k LOC project the same way you would write and organize a 100k LOC project — or you’ll end up with a 500% overhead in LOC that WILL translate to a 500% higher burden of maintenance.

I just wish school taught me that, or that my younger self could have been clever enough to see it by himself.
Oops.

I should have known something was up when you didn't post a landing page...
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Interesting how you're framing "western culture" as being exclusively the positive aspects, while ignoring the fact that western culture has, until very recently, included more exceptions to the rights of the individual than not.

What you're doing is literally textbook whitewashing of history.
> In which way are quantum computers commercially useful?

VC Bait seems like a natural fit. Just say you are making a quantum computer that predicts global warming trends using blockchain. Might want to buy a wheel barrel for all your money you’ll be leaving that meeting with.
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The features of a commercial grid that I'm currently using:

* incremental updates, inserts, deletes

* nested grids

* formula based coloring of cells

* column based filtering
> the cancel culture in the West is destroying people from speaking freely

All of the pundits complaining about “cancel culture” are themselves constantly demanding that various things be “canceled” (fired, taken off the air, defunded, boycotted, deported, imprisoned, ...).

Not in every case, but as a general rule, “cancel culture has gone too far” is a hypocritical euphemism for “I don’t like it when people call out my bigotry”.
I’d have to see more of the can design but this looks weak to me. The 'S' and 'E' are each one color. The ‘X’ is both red and blue, and seems to only exist because part of a 'P'(?) intersects the background. But what do I know?
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Ohhhh I'm with you 100%. There's plenty of shady bs that LinkedIn has done and this wasn't a blanket endorsement at all.

But I do think the parent's personification of the platform misguided.
This is what Krauss is often mocked for, because he sneakily redefines "nothing" to include quantum fields, which is not nothing. Even the first comment under the YT video you posted puts it quite well: "Literally " nothing " by definition, should be one devoid of " quantum fields ". And, the question should be where did " quantum fields " come from?"
It's standard practice in psychiatry to publish anonymized patient stories. Your issue is with the entire field, then.
Even though Medium reinstated my profile, I stopped publishing on the platform and moved to my blog again.

There's some history re-writing going on here. The tweet from Medium about unblocking his account was in July 2018 - the author replied with 'Happens. No worries. Thanks for resolving the issue guys', so they clearly weren't too bothered about this at the time. They then went on to post over ten further articles on Medium over the next six months - again, hardly the sign of someone annoyed by the platform. (for contrast, they had only written one earlier article in the year, so his output increased after the issue)

...and now in July 2020, two years on, they have decided that this was the thing that stopped them using Medium? How is this anything but a lie?
Perhaps you'd be interested in the entry on the philosophy of cosmology, section 3 in particular: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology/#OrigUniv
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>Zuby is the nicest guy that he ever meet and Joe is right

>In March 2019, Zuby garnered worldwide attention by posting a video in which he claimed to have broken the British Women's deadlift record of 238kg (528 pounds). Zuby claimed that he "identified as a woman whilst lifting the weight". Zuby later declared on Twitter that he "took the UK women's bench press record too"

Yes, that sounds like a nice person you want to have on your platform /s. Now he sells 'OK dude' shirts. Looks like a typical US right-wing grifter to me?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuby_(rapper)
The OP is being cheeky with that comment - God as a first cause is really orthogonal to abrahamic religion and many arguments are in full agreement with the "original cause" being uncreated. OP is likely alluding to current popular conceptions of time as finite [1] (which has implications/problems for any hypothetical first cause).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_finitism
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The more I see things like this, the more I think the original sin of this century was analytics, rather than ads.
Some platforms seem to increasingly use "ban" to mean "suspension" *

Zuby was suspended: https://summit.news/2020/02/27/rapper-zuby-suspended-by-twit...

* Twitch.tv for example, never use "suspension" but "ban" for everything from a 24hr suspension through a month suspension to an indefinite permanent ban.
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I think you mean not very often here? Otherwise the rest of your comment makes no sense.
Doesn't seem to be a problem for me. I mean maybe if I added one it will raise the levels of "engagement" on my profile by a lot more but that level is already high enough to give me a steady stream of new work so I really have nothing to gain.

I wouldn't actually mind adding a picture now (I had a reason not to add one at the beginning, but this is no longer a problem) but at this point I will refrain from doing so out of principle to not show them an increase in their analytics data and encouraging their terrible practices.
It is not even a quantum demonstration.
Not sure why you are downvoted but this is perfectly valid given that his name is already known and public (given his news career) and now they demand his home address. What they're doing to Tucker Carlson, is what they will also do when they find SSC's true identity.

If SSC gets their name doxed, the NYT won't stop. They'll find their home address, employer, etc to cancel SSC.
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Your point is valid but in the case of App Store and Google play, they require to be an institution with an authority if you are building anything about the COVID-19 pandemic. So the route would be to partner with a medical institution that is reputable enough for Apple and Google.

From their perspective, it makas sence because otherwise the App Analytics would pick up that there is this thing called coronavirus and is popular so from business perspective they should target it and the search results would degrade. Then the analytics would pick up that testing positive on Covid-19 test app has a good conversation rate and people would make apps where you test positive(or whatever goes. conspiracy theories, denialists - anything that brings eyeballs). This is essentially what happened with the News market. Analytics showed what kind of news people like and publishers made the news that people demand. They simply wrote the articles that brought most eyeballs.

When you own the platform, then it is your responsibility to spread it. Good luck with that, you can be a good citizen or conspiracy theorist and it is all fine until you succeed. If you are the "undesirable" and you actually succeed then people will start talking how to block your platform. You can be undesirable by telling the truth(journalism) or invoke trouble(shootings, racism and so on).

Owning the platform is not going to be the solution, it will simply delay the consequences.
Yup. Recently bought an affordable mechanical keyboard without consulting any review websites. Am very happy with it for about a month. Then I went to Amazon to see the reviews, out of curiosity. They are very negative for the product I am very satisfied with. Had I done due diligence, I would have lost a bunch of cash for a mere marginal improvement which none but connoisseurs can discern.

I think there are a few things in life we must decide carefully - like a partner, which doctor to consult etc. Reading reviews for most of the other stuff is overthinking, and pointless.
> I think it's a somewhat snobbish assumption that a language becomes poorer because the meaning of particular words drift.

This is very much not what I said.

My claim is that by reducing the variation and nuance available in the language by reducing the precision of some words such that they are then mere synonyms of several other words -- results in a poorer language, and (perhaps) poorer cognitive opportunities for speakers & writers of that language.

Meaning of words definitely do drift, and that's okay. What I resist is the perhaps ineluctable drift towards a lowest common denominator of usage.

For what it's worth I find language much more fun when I can stretch it to its (or rather my) fullest, appreciating the history and subtlety of words and phrases I employ, rather than wishing for language to be pedestrian and exclusively utilitarian.
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OP mentioned UK is like US. i'm just giving an example.
Sure, but a game would generally be improved by being less disjointed, right?
Safari still has this in its preferences, surprisingly.
Isn't this the idea behind watchful waiting? You have an early signal so you follow up with periodic tests to see if it goes away or shows signs of malignancy.

Eventually we'll have studies that show the conditional probability of different cancer outcomes based on these early signals, and from there we'll have a protocol to get the best outcomes, reducing the chance of malignant cancer while minimizing cost and medical intervention.
It's really bad faith:

Repairing something, is, most of the time, swapping the defective part with a functional one.

Most of the people buy a new iPhone, or will ask yo Apple a battery replacement, most of the time, they don't ask to a repair shop.

"Better environmental outcome" you dismiss that, people will buy another iPhone due to this complexity, and this iPhone won't be disposed properly.

Also, the repairs shop are currently fighting apple for the right to repair.
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The unfortunate side effect of this (very good) advice is that all code that's easy to delete will eventually be replaced with code that's hard to delete (and thus will eventually be impossible to delete in order to be replaced with something better).
I've played Dota for way more hours than I want to admit, and unless you're playing on the highest of levels (Immortal) where people really have a very strong feeling for the win-conditions that they have and when it becomes very hard to reach them, I call BS on your statement. There are very strong reasons why pro players almost never call it GG before at least one rax is down, and often wait to do so for at least one last hail mary fight (depends a bit on the patch though).

The chance that the enemy throws a fight or makes other mistakes that opens up new win conditions (or sometimes that simply one guy in the other team tilts and throws) is just too high in Dota in order to be able to call it quits after 10 minutes.

One of the main reasons for the toxicity in Dota in my opinion is that people don't understand that there are 10 variables in the field, but they can only control one of them. Don't even bother trying to influence the other 9 (apart from positive feedback/encouragement/communication to the team), it's a waste of time and only contributes to the toxicity.
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I'd like to have a group / subreddit whatever talking about this topic. And low fat computing too (I think it fits the view of this article).

Personnally I used dillo a lot, it's so god damn lean and instantaneous.. it's crazy. I wanted to add sqlite and lua as a scripting language to make it open to extensions but I got stuck :)
I like the idea that applications haven't any icons. It's looks very clean
> I also don't want private companies to be forced to host just about any content people want to publish.

That's the thing - they're not being 'forced' to host content. They willingly offering a service to host all and any (at least legal) content. If they're no longer willing to do that, then they're no longer a neutral Internet service provider. They're a private publisher and morally opinionated content moderator, like Facebook. That makes them no longer a provider of 'free' and 'open' Internet.

Perhaps a solution that makes everyone happy is strong / privacy layered end-to-end DNS encryption in a way that Cloudflare never sees or can control the delivery and allocation of website addresses based on domain queries. Not sure if it's possible, but I'm thinking something like Tor .onion site HSDirs and lots of cryptography is involved.

Also, people should just filter out the content they don't want to see, instead of everyone being forced to agree on what's good or bad as if they're all in the same one-size-fits-all boat.
That you for this valuable advice! I have to admit that I have never worked on accessibility before (apart from writing meaningful HTML). Will definitely look at improving screen reader support when I get to it.
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Any particular reason for "Doesn't use node.js", given that a static site generator isn't going to use the runtime once the site is (re)generated so you don't have any efficiency or stability concerns from your reader's PoV?

(I'm considering node for a personal project or two, though as much as possible avoiding the mess that NPM seems to be as the projects are small enough I can manage the few dependencies manually, so insight into pitfalls I'm not aware of could be useful)
Kano originally was an education kit build around a Raspberry Pi [1].

I was a backer of that and the hardware and instruction book you received was great. I played with it for a bit, but I ended up gifting it to a friend who had two young kids. His daughter ended up using it to create same games in Scratch.

Interesting to see that they've moved onto Windows instead now. I wonder if it's so parents are more familiar and able to help with projects on it?

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexklein/kano-a-comput...
"own your own platform" - that we can all agree on.
Turns out creating a blog , backed by ipfs, and cached by cloudflare is pretty easy. http://github.com/posix4e/blog -> http://www.wuli.nu/

Feel free to steal my example
Is it possible / are there virtual or emulated quantum computers?

I read about the Kyndi model but could not find any implementation.
Does that mean we should be writing comments on own platform, and just put links here instead of commenting on HN?
Now if only we could have that result without AMP.
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