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> The problem with banning "harmful" speech is creating the justification to ban any speech by labeling it harmful.

Let's rewrite your assertion in more general terms: The problem with banning any "harmful" activity is creating the justification to ban any activity by labeling it "harmful."

Further: The problem with banning "murder" is creating the justification to ban any activity by labeling it "murder."

It's logically consistent, and grammatically coherent. "Harm" is just a word like "murder" that can mean anything we decide it does. But there's nothing about speech within a framework of regulation which makes it more amenable to the slippery slope than any other activity, yet somehow we manage to live in a society where arbitrary activities aren't persecuted as murder, because human beings are capable of exercising judgement and discretion, and of appreciating context and nuance.

Therefore it should be possible to define "harmful" speech in such a way that distinguishes harm from not-harm.

The slope may exist, but it isn't that slippery. And if it gets too slippery, we're perfectly capable of installing a railing.

>You fight harmful speech in the marketplace of ideas, by convincing those who might listen to ignore or counter it.

Do you think that QAnon or anti-vaxxers or white supremacists are unaware of arguments to the contrary of their beliefs? That they only believe what they do because no one has ever engaged them in a debate in the "marketplace of ideas" and convinced them otherwise? If that was all it took, these cancerous memes would not have gotten as big as they have. The majority refuse to be convinced, so you've already lost on that front.

By the time you've laid out your well formed and thoroughly sourced counterargument to whomever you find who actually cares to listen to it, Facebook memes and retweets by the President of the United States have already convinced ten thousand people that Bill Gates created COVID as an excuse to implant mind control chips into the populace so he and the Illuminati can more easily harvest their brain syrum, and the person you tried to debate is now convinced you're a disinfo shill and that Alex Jones was right after all.

You fight harmful speech with both education and regulation.

>Fighting it by forcibly banning it is just might-makes-right.

No, it just means that a marketplace of ideas can still have standards and be a marketplace. A marketplace without rules is inevitably overrun by bad actors, charlatans and snake oil salesmen.
Implementing Generics
Sure, that’s probably the most major reason. Having an app store that requires apps to meet certain quality standards, respect privacy, and not contain malware is part of why people are willing to pay a premium for iPhones. It goes without saying there are other factors, too, like the high quality hardware and integration with cool accessories. Again, it’s not an accident that iOS apps are more profitable than Android apps. Apple’s overall ecosystem is designed to attract people who are willing to pay for good products.
User Stories vs. Job Stories
As a product owner/manager, what do you prefer to write at your company in an agile software projects?
FWIW some people -e.g. me :-P- consider "C with classes" much more readable than modern C++.
Same. I wanted to minimize use. The only apps that "speak" are: phone, messaging, Skype. The group chats are muted, and I also disabled the auto-refresh of emails. Now unless someone is sending a message just to me, or calls me, the phone stays silent. All other apps (gym, etc) have notifications off completely.

That, and keeping the charger in a remote corner, helps to park it and forget it.
So let’s talk about “innovative creations”.

Musicians - the stars that sell more songs get much better contracts than newly discovered singers.

Authors - Steven King gets a much better deal from publishers than a new author.

Game publishers - big game publishers get much better deals from console makers than indy developers. Even Epic got much better support from Apple than indy developers. Do you think I could get Sony to make a “Scarface Edition” of the PlayStation?

https://bgr.com/2020/09/17/fortnite-lawsuit-apple-epic-games...

Software developers - almost every software company makes special deals with large enterprises.

Cloud Providers - I’m assuming Azure and GCP make special deals with large enterprises. I’m not going to say one way or the other about Amazon since I work at AWS (but nowhere near sales).
It creates purchasing power only in VR, but that is not the same thing as wealth. I think it's important to keep that distinction. Wealth is more directly connected to financial stability than the price of specific technology products.
> "The United States is the country most highly dependent on these technologies," Deibert said. "And arguably the most vulnerable to these sorts of attacks. I think there should be far more attention devoted to thinking about proper systems of security, to defense."

It's all fun and games until someone melts down a reactor.

The journalist is probably playing with Cunningham's Law, but I distinctly recall the doomsday gap scene ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24481298 ) as having been closer to the middle of Dr. Strangelove. The end came after the referent of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K10pdj5YOy0 .

Bonus clip (note the lack of any source attribution problem in these cases): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ8oA9-OQrg
I've long felt that the greatest exploration of history every created in entertainment form was the 20-year long show called Modern Marvels[0] on the History Channel. It was the History Channels very first show and since it's beginnings in 1995, Modern Marvels has treated us to 44 minute long explorations of the history of things (infrastructure, buildings, devices, earthworks, vehicles) with a format that avoids the boring and useless. All "5 Ws" are addressed each episode, but instead of focusing on "when" and "who" and "where", it focuses on:

- "What?" What is this thing? What is it's purpose? How does it do what it does? What can we learn from it?

- "Why?" Why was it built? Why did we drive to build something so important? Why should I care?

Only after we understand what it is and why it is, do we start to look at who built it, when they built it, etc (though they sneak in some who and when to contextualize the why quite often (which is great!)). Take for example this exploration of the United States Library of Congress:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZuXepy0DdY

What a sublime show. And it has such a fantastic narrator and opening theme as well!

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Marvels
> How would I trust the social networks under the American Gov?

Presumably a country probably wouldn’t if they are an enemy of the western world.
But one thing I can't help but agree with: Upgrading to a newer version of your language implicitly creates a jolt to the maple syrup glue in every one of your dependencies. There's only so many years of that your project will stand before the unmaintained ones bring it down and an overhaul is needed.
I did that with PayPal a couple of years ago and the transaction was flagged for review.
The circumstances that led up to this failure of organizational security are a combo of IT apathy and vendor lock-in.

IMO you should not be running windows on hardware whose failure could cause deaths. Maybe windows could be secured to prevent this but that would require IT staff to keep things updated which does not always happen.

A much better solution is to run locked down Linux or BSD.
This claim will be retracted by the hospital. We need a betting market, I'd say they will back down next week.

The hospital refuses to state the software, so they can't care to much.

People have died from ransonware many many times before in hospitals. ie [1]

But orders of magnitude more people have died from hospital's shitty IT systems.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/study-ransomware-data-br...
This is massively scalable. There are examples, but I do not want to get political.
For as long as you have to exert it, will power takes up energy that can be used elsewhere more profitably.
I think what Facebook and its vendors are building takes huge investment and lots of the best engineers you can hire. It's not just an lcd panel with lenses glued on, it's a room scale computer vision system, a VR optimised cpu/gpu with a suite of sensors, a VR software platform, controllers packed with sensors, computer vision tracking of controllers and hands, developer tools, a consumer app store, first party apps, a social VR metaverse, a telemetry system, a manufacturing and distribution supply chain, and a marketing push to get it into millions of hands (and it's also highly likely each headset is sold at a loss). I don't know how much money it takes to do all that, but I know you can't raise it on kickstarter.
> Edit: this "rain" crap is a digression from the "fire" problem. I don't have experience there, but I imagine "the electric infrastructure and cell towers burnt down" is more of an issue... again, paper and pencil wins.

WRT. paper vs. touchscreens and fire, I imagine two extra factors come into play. One, protective equipment may not play well with touchscreens (are there capacitive screen-friendly pads for gloves that won't burn off?). Two, heat in general. Phones and tablets don't like it all that much, and can easily start behaving weirdly and/or shut down when being used in a car in summer, much less next to an actual fire.
Thanks for the info. Those numbers are more impressive than I would have guessed.
> The only thing holding back GPU performance is memory bandwidth.

Cooling and getting enough power to the chips is going to very challenging. The 3080 already needed a redesign of its cooling solution and power delivery mechanism. At 5nm or 3nm, things are going to be a lot more difficult.
I don't think people are ignoring it at all.

TSMC opening up fabs back in the US shows that people are taking the threat from China quite seriously.
Yeah, the parent seems to think that expecting sex after entering a monogamous relationship is almost rape. People are so concerned with infringing on other people's "rights" and obtaining conscent for everything under the sun, that they just can't understand the idea of obligations or responsibilities anymore.

Marriage is a huge responsibility. Entering into it means you agree to the responsibilities it carries. Each person should be well aware of these responsibilities before entering into one.

If your partner is in the mood for sex but you aren't on a regular basis, maybe a little bit of self sacrifice is needed. I'm sure the other person has helped them out doing their chores when they weren't feeling like it, or going out of their way for them in some way. Marriage is all about each person trying to give more to it than the other. I don't know why sex I suddenly a taboo topic when it comes to rights and responsibilities.
I submitted this earlier today and it was flagged. Why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24516023
Rogan was a massive Quake player back in the day
People are complaining about a necessary byproduct of the US "globalization" strategy. It was a necessary result that in just a few years another country puts together technology equal or superior to US and starts doing the same strategies US companies such as FB have been using for a long time.
Yep, sounds like someone who spends way too much time on forums. Do they even have a 6-figure business that's literally getting laughed at? And was that "laughter" more than maybe an internet comment, at most? Starts to sound more like superstition.
Dunno why this is being downvoted - i once jokingly added a note mentioning “meth” paying someone for dinner (in reference to our conversation at said dinner) and google suspended my account temporarily and cancelled the transaction
They got dozens of servers with patient data hacked and encrypted and had to shutdown their intensive care and reroute patients elsewhere.

What do you think?

I don't think there is a single hospital that completely fulfills those standards. The bar is very high and the umbrella organization of hospitals says there must be millions per hospital invested to reach the requirements.

In unrelated news: a new law was passed today, after years of preparation, that includes a 4.3 billion euro investment of tax money into hospital IT systems.
I've never quite understood HackerNews's obsession with reddit over other social networks. I'd love if someone could it explain it
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It's difficult to understand why Microsoft wouldn't buy this. With some clever marketing I'm sure they could grow the username rapidly and it would cost less than 1% of whatever TikTok would cost.
> I'm arguing that total deplatforming (not just effective criticism, I'm talking about total deplatforming) backfires.

And I'm saying you should speak to some historians about this claim.
It also used to cause motion sickness, had terrible resolution, lots of lag and no games/software that supported it. AR/VR as a whole has come a LONG way since then to make it an actual consumer product.
When you run up against the limits of Moore's law and the end of Dennard Scaling you have to get dirty and do what it takes to get more performance.

Personally, I think CPU architecture became too complicated for my taste after the 68k. So what?
Is Facebook also owned by the CCP? Because that's the same kind of divisive content I see on FB. No need for TikTok to get this result, it is the byproduct of US politics.
Actually I just realized, after thinking about the forward looking AR research talk by the VP or whoever, that AGI is actually the long-term research goal for Facebook's AR. They want a personal assistant that understands the world well enough to insert content that you need.

So John is actually still working on the next phase of the Facebook AR project in my opinion.
To use the version of WeChat I downloaded through the Play store.
The idea is everyone must take vacation (sometimes X+ consecutive days each year), not just the people you suspect of running scams.

Giving all of your employees two weeks unannounced vacation at random times is a disruptive way to run a company. It's certainly innovative but I wouldn't say it's HR "done right".
Can anyone give a tl;dr for why this was so difficult, and how they solved it? Don't FP languages typically lend themselves more easily to parallelism?
Barr presses for federal arrests of some George Floyd protesters
Many here might know this, but worth mentioning again: A simple but underrated remedy to reduce the colourful appeal of a "smartphone" is to put it in black-and-white mode (i.e. gray scale). On Android you can do it this way:

'Developer options' --> 'Simulate color space' --> 'Monochromacy'

I couple that with:

+ Turning off all notifications.

+ I don't use any of the run-of-the-mill social media for about 7 years.

+ Most of my serious reading is largely via old-fashioned books.

All of the above makes it for a damn calm device.
Renewables are emitting CO2 in their making AND in their maintenance AND when they need to migrate due to climate patterns being unpredictable, and I mentioned that again in another post.

In a world transitioning away from fossil fuels, that world has to transition pretty damn fast from fossil fuels and renewables do not bridge the gap AND do not handle controllability. You never actually mention any solution at all despite the now dozen things I've mentioned about this, and you know full well that (1) your precious means to get energy will cost in their making AND the moving as climate evolves, and (2) the unsteady nature of their output REQUIRES having a controllable source in parallel which DOES NOT make the fossil fuel usage go down UNLESS we use nuclear. And the alternative is that we would simply have de-growth, CONFER the damn original post. I am not taking a stance about that, I am simply stating what AGAIN the damn physics lays out in front of your eyes. It's not my fault if you don't want to read IPCC reports.

I am sick and tired of your unsourced rants that aren't trying to bring any useful argument to the table, and I'll leave it at that. If you want to keep putting your blinders on and think that the sun is almighty, all the power to you. You're lying to yourself and this can cost more than you realize.
SpeakeasyJS – Acid and Xylem: two new programming languages [live at 4pm PT]
For me and my team, it hits the right balance between Angular's structure and React's no-structure. We can use it for small apps within a server-rendered website, or larger SPAs.

I can hand a project to a junior dev and not have to explain project structure or patterns, nor worry about things going off the rails. Generally, after getting a feature working, most of the feedback I'll need to give is "break this 300 line file up into 3-4 smaller ones". Great ESLint rules provided by the Vue team really help with this.

With Vue 3, with the two APIs, I know that I'll be able to hand a feature off to a developer of any level and know they can accomplish it however it makes the most sense.

I can also jump into a legacy Vue app built by another team and have no issues getting oriented. In my experience with React, I haven't seen the same router configuration twice. Most React projects I've inherited feel over engineered

On a more meta level, I think the single-file API its a much better mental model than React's. Your HTML is still just HTML, and your styles are CSS or Sass, or whatever you choose.It's why I preferred AngularJS over the others at the time.
Google and Facebook were banned long ago in China - if anything these actions are retaliation for that.

Apple has been allowed in but has had to divest all data hosting to Chinese controlled companies.
Yes and many on HN want Apple to be “broken up” so the iOS ecosystem is just as bad as Androids....
> For most Sharia fintech startups, MUI certificates are... legally required

Nowhere does it say that most fintech startups, let alone most finance, are are seeking that classification.
I, too, would appreciate a brief Google Doc or Pastebin on this if you can spare the time. I've never setup netboot before, but have been interested for years...
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And because of that it is also a given name for many people, believe it or not.
Ah sure, I was thinking quite loosely about 'constraints'. I think you can get pretty far without a solver, with a dependency order in a procedural language like python. Of course it's not as expressive, but I think it goes a long way, and just isn't possible or at least wouldn't be natural in GUI CAD.

e.g. Scripted CAD pseudocode:

x = param('length')
y = param('width')

z = 2*x + y

base = rect(x, y)
box = base.extrude(z)

radius = y/2 if y < x else x/2
cutout = circle(radius=radius, centre=(radius+base.x, radius+base.y)).extrude(z)

obj = box - cutout

The circle cutout inherently has tangent constraints on the sides of the box, without needing library support or a solver.

I realise there are limits, I just think you could do a lot without hitting them, and when you do.. you're just programming, find a constraint solver to use.
The text of the law matters not as much as what the law was intended to do. In any case, by saying the one off needs certified you've gone off into la-la land; any reasonable person classifies it as a test/measurement device and gets on with their life.
Ah, thank you - I had been unable to find the details on that.

Suffice to say that it would take a federal statute to allow MMD outside of NM and Hawaii? That still seems like a heavier lift than passing state-level gerrymandering reform.

And they don't need to be set against themselves anyway - if MMD were allowed, state-level gerrymandering reform is still valuable, for those that stick with single districts.

Unless you're talking about a federal law to mandate MMD, which is even harder.
This article was lovely to read, but I wish there was an RSS feed so I can catch the later installments.
Thats the scary part to me. You're having a heart attack, but the computer's not working. So now we can't treat you.

This is not IT anymore, this is in medical device territory. When you rely on a computer to send a medicine order to a hospital pharmacy, and you can't get drugs without it – that's a critical life support device at that point.

If you can't administer medicine to a PT without scanning the barcode first, that's a critical life support device.
Automating Secure Code-Signing Assets
They haven't yet gotten rid of https://old.reddit.com/, as much as they seem to want to.
> The problem with libertarian values is that they assume that all people within society are rational, capable of making their own decisions or ones that don’t harm or adversely impact other people.

Internet libertarian here. That's not the argument at all.

We could prevent tons of harm by tightly regulating all aspects of life. Banning fast food or cigarettes would undeniably be a public health win, and I don't think many libertarians would disagree with that.

The argument is that it's simply not the government's job to prevent people from hurting themselves, even if it could be done at scale and effectively. It's a question of the role of government, not so much about whether loud music or fireworks cause harm (they do) or if it's enforceable (it is).

If you ban everything that's dangerous or unhealthy, I'm not sure you'd be happy with the culture that results. Humans are experimental by nature, even if sometimes that results in harm. These types of restrictions that can't be bypassed hurt our experimental nature.

In the beginning of the pandemic, and even now, a lot of attitudes were shaped by the lack of government regulation. If the president isn't wearing a mask, and there's no legal requirement for me to wear a mask, then it must be safe to not wear masks... right? That's the kind of thinking that a highly regulated society produces because we've insulated people from danger for so long. At this point, it seems most people feel that if you can do something, it must be safe, otherwise it wouldn't be available for you to do. That's even more dangerous than loud music or fireworks.
I was surprised that became a feature of Vue 3, as well. I was hoping they would drop it, assuming you could just use Babel + Polyfills to get it to work if you really needed it.
I guess. Buttttt its all extremely incremental.

All accesories, feauture copying, and solid but boring improvements?

Here's a test. How many non-iPhone users own Apple Watch?
It's a YC startup from the first ever batch and HN was created to try to recapture what Reddit was like at the beginning.
Persian food is kind of a synonym
Honestly, it looks like HN does right now, albeit with a different color scheme.
Isn't main problem that hospital relied on computers too much? Why cannot they treat patients without them?

What if tomorrow, say a buggy Windows 10 update disables their systems, will someone else die?
I ran into this as well. At some point I was able to sign up using a facebook login. I subsequently deleted facebook, but WC still works.
Oculus 1 is nearly there, so I have a feeling Oculus 2 could be great. Having said that, there are people who use Oculus 1 all day. There is an app called Immersed that let's you create giant virtual VR monitors and put them wherever you want, which is pretty wild - see:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/428916969861808130/...

It's easy to imagine how useful this could be eg: when working with complex web apps where having 4 screens (IDE, terminal, browser, browser console) actually has great utility.
Those are regulated amd everyone who builds building knows. Especially in Germany.

Software industry hates idea of regulation.