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> if they are going to police opinions, they are acting as editors, not a platform.

This is a common misconception, but that's not what the law actually says. I'd encourage you to go read Section 230 yourself. It says a platform can't be held legally liable for:

"any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected"

The NYT and Fox News are publishers but they're only liable for the stuff they write and publish themselves. If someone on their comments section posts objectionable or illegal content they aren't liable for it. And they're free to moderate their comments section in any way they wish.

BTW consider the alternative if it wasn't this way. Activists could flood 2A message boards with "guns evil, ban them all" spam and the mods could do nothing to stop them lest they lose Section 230 protections. Trolls could harass users on forums for sensitive topics such as dealing with grief, cancer, PTSD or other traumas. Every online forum would become totally unusable.
The desperation I've seen in addicted gamblers in Las Vegas doesn't seem so different from the despair I've seen from junkies. Both of these are addictions to which some people lose everything.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/19/problem-gamb...
> We are currently experiencing a widespread outage in our US-1 Data center, and all hands are on deck to resolve it - we are truly sorry for the inconvenience and are working towards a timely resolution. The infrastructure that allows the configuration and resolution of our services is currently severely degraded, causing a number of customer-facing services to be disrupted. This results in high error rates in our web application and API, delays in metrics processing and disrupts alerting.

Wishing those devs all the best and happy hunting, they have an amazing product that saves my ass multiple times a day.
I honestly didn't realize that GWT was still available. When I last tried it, a long time ago, it was really cumbersome.

I've never heard of J2CL, but I don't see myself even giving it a try. I'm just not a huge fan of transpilers. The Web browser runs on Javascript, which is an insanely bad choice but the one that got made. If/when WASM happens, maybe that will enable better interoperability between source languages, but until then I find it easiest to speak the most native language on whatever platform I'm using. That will be the one with the best debugging tools, the broadest set of questions answered on StackOverflow, and the UX that feels most familiar to the user.

I don't especially love Typescript, but I'll grudgingly admit that it's actually pretty good, especially given that it has to be Javascript. (It actually does some null safety better than Java.) It requires a transpiler but one that's universally supported and is only a very thin gloss on the underlying language, so I move swiftly back and forth. I can integrate plain Javascript toolkits, debug with the native JS debugger, and can quickly translate back and forth from answers written for JS to TS and vice versa.

I'd much rather be writing Java -- or Kotlin, where again I'm happy despite the transpiler since it's so closely linked to the native tongue. But overall it's easier for me to adapt my language than to force a computer, and a community, to use my favorite. Even when that language is Javascript, a simply terrible language -- a thing I will say about very few mainstream languages. (After writing Haskell they're all pretty much the same to me.)
When I first saw this I was somewhat confused. I was wondering whether Slate Star Codex was back, but I hadn't seen any announcement. When I scrolled down to the bottom I saw that this post was from May 28, 2020. So Slate Star Codex is not back (yet?). (Sad Face.)
Dutch people don’t need a warning to stop them from eating a pound of licorice in a sitting. Wanton excess as a way of life is culturally American.
That's not what defines the mobile app market, what makes the mobile app market is that the device can replace a computer. Even if you could put a SIM card into a Nintendo Switch, that would still just be a Nintendo Switch.
> Counter-Strike was Half-Life mod, and Half-Life was developed by Valve, so it's still the same developer

That's not how that works. Someone else developed Counter-Strike and released it to the community. Then around ~2000 Valve bought it + license and continued to develop it (with original developers as well).

DotA -> League of Legends was something similar as well. Third-party mods that got bought up by a company and then made exclusive to a particular store.

If you thought that the PC industry is somehow becoming like the Apple App Store, I think you're living in a fantasy. You can still download and run whatever binary you want. On a iPhone, you cannot.
How many people in the GOP/ICE/etc do you actually think believe "particular race X is not worthy of life"?
The basis for this belief is that Epic also sued Google Play for creating the existing conditions that you describe. Epic doesn't want to turn iOS into Android (which is bad enough on its own), they want to open the floodgates on Android, too.
>Is it really immoral to have immigration checkpoints, borders and laws... and corresponding enforcement of those laws?

I think you are letting your subjective moral lens cloud your judgement. The fact of the matter is certain immigration policies and directives are more effective and have lower political and social costs than other ones. A utilitarian immigration policy framework would perform significantly better than the current "border" rhetoric which has led to billion dollar make-work in the middle of nowhere.
"It's like two bald men fighting over a comb"
Exactly. He meant this is the sort of thing they should be doing. Not Pocket and WebXR.
Solutions exist, more likely Facebook is not interested in them, as it may affect their bottom line.
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A bigot can point to one experience with a minority and blame the entire demographic, but a minority can't say one white person said a slur to them therefore all white people are racist pigs without backlash. There's an XKCD comic about this and girls in math.
Man...the record layoffs immediately after announcing record profits really chapped my ass.

Last year I had a Blizzard recruiter reach out to me. It was sad because when I got my CS degree in 2014, I had a dream of working for Blizzard. I told the recruiter that I had that dream, but after they decided to lay people off after reaching record profits, I no longer had any interest in working for them.

I ended up looking on Glassdoor for the position I would have worked and the pay was absolutely abysmal. Not sure how they would expect someone to live in or near Irvine, CA for $90K/year, or why anybody would accept that salary when other companies would pay nearly double that for the same work and experience.
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>My biggest fear is that state actors will inject information designed to polarize us, and that we'll respond exactly as they want.

Are you being facetious with this? This has been a long documented behavior of Russia. The future you fear is already here.
Interesting to know that if there was a facebook.com/r/all/, I wouldn't even recognize who the top posts were made by. Guess I'm just really disconnected.
My takeaway is that as a heuristic, I can dismiss claims of "x% of Y group believe Z" as meaningful when
- x ~ 4% if the question offered an "unsure/ don't know" option, or
- x ~ 33% if the question did not offer an "unsure/don't know" option.

Do think as a populace we'll ever get beyond the inherent subjectivity of poll results? A NYT article yesterday, "Young People More Likely to Believe Virus Misinformation, Study Says" [1], cited that 28% of 18-24 y.o.s believe that humans originally got coronavirus from eating bats. But I looked at the paper [2], and it turns out they were offered a "not sure" option. So am I justified now in thinking that there's something wrong with these Gen Z kids? I think most likely not...

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/technology/young-people-m...
[2]: http://www.kateto.net/covid19/COVID19%20CONSORTIUM%20REPORT%...
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The Covid-19 pandemic is worse than official figures show
Of course you can't, however many people have different definitions of "rejecting humanity" and you don't get to just define that however you want and then make anyone who doesn't agree with your definition the de facto outgroup.
It's also a no-brainer from the business and marketing side. Unless Apple somehow forces certain rules on third-party app stores to require their apps to comply with advertising, tracking, and security measures, there's no reason for these third party app stores to care if the apps they have on their store track the user for advertising via something other than the tracking identifier - they'd all bypass the tracking consent popup via fingerprinting and other techniques.
Since you mentioned DataGrip, it seems like IDEA has this capability built in - [0]. You may need the Ultimate version. In that case, the $5/month really comes down to the collaboration features, although, office 365/google docs could be a poor-man's alternative.

For MySQL users on macOS, Sequel Pro can export your schema to graphviz format as well - [1]

[0] - https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/creating-diagrams.html
[1] - https://www.norbauer.com/rails-consulting/notes/erd-diagrams...
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I was effectively forced to accept a new job due to not being able to pay my rent after COVID. This role is entirely snacking and preening, so it is mildly fulfilling because I get to close ~7 jiras every day. But, I haven’t learned much and am never challenged.

While it slows my career trajectory, I am now able to spend way way less time on work and way more time on other things. What the other things are.. time will tell.
This one was super useful for me

https://www.amazon.es/PostgreSQL-High-Performance-Gregory-Sm...

I think that they have a newer edition for postgres 10
The simple solution would be to stop recommending posts - either from within our social circle, or from people and organizations we aren't affiliated with.

At that point, whatever damage is being done won't be undone, but facebook can genuinely say it is not maintinaing editorial control.

But, they won't do that, because their business model is based on editorial control. There's no way around their culpability.
> I don't understand how facebook came to be responsible for policing political opinions anyway.

There's tons of software engineers, product designers, etc. on an ideological bent. If companies like Facebook and Netflix hire these types of people, even if they think they're on the same side, they shouldn't be surprised when their employees begin making collective demands.

> I see it amongst commenters here too. What gives any of these people the right to police the opinions of others?

Intellectual types tend towards seeing every issue in life as an engineering problem that can be solved with code or mathematics, so control over dangerous ideas makes sense to them and appeals to their ego sense that their intelligence gives them. It's just more apparent than ever because our environment rewards the ego in ways we didn't see even 5 years ago. We haven't even reached peak ego yet.
Hmmm, as the article declares at the bottom, it's written by a former GDS staffer.

Plenty of admirable things about the UK Gov websites, especially the simplicity and consistency of the best of them; but there is a sense of reminiscing about being in the West Wing rather than a (good) public sector IT team?
Adding to the above, Schönig's Mastering PostgreSQL 11 will help you advance from intermediate to high-intermediate PostgreSQL programmer, as will Faroult's The Art of SQL. Karwin's SQL Antipatterns is useful supplementary reading also.

I've looked through my kindle, and I wouldn't bother with much else.
Or maybe liberals tend to not use Facebook to get their news.
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But you said:

> A lot of kids must have grown up never facing and learning to to deal with disagreement or what is it that have created such a thin skinned generation of seemingly well educated people?

Are you referring to NFL executives? I suspect not.
You're actually advocating for censorship on a global scale. We've truly regressed.
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I think it's worth noting that the wave of fascism that swept the world during the early 20th century coincided with radio and television being widely deployed.

This may be correlation that does not imply causation. But demagogues had, for the first time, a way to reach into people's homes directly with their messages all the time, if they had access to microphones, video cameras, and broadcast towers. And it was a mechanism that excluded the ability of any antithesis messages to reach people on those same channels (once the government had control of the channels). Mussolini and his ilk certainly knew how to take advantage of these tools.
Yes, it is intelligent. In aggregate the market is intelligent.
Addendum https://zengo.com/generalized-front-running-ethereum-arbitra...
And hydrogen or synth fuel aren't expensive? If these alternatives weren't more expensive then the problem would be moot because the industry would be voluntarily using them already.
You're right, that's a 100% worth it. But I think you missed a key point. Live frugally to have the financial independence to do things that genuinely make you happy.
> Thanks for that, but the referenced article is nearly 10 years old, the legal landscape has changed several times since

Sync license requirements haven't changed and YT has nothing to with that. You're mixing up several things here and that might be where a lot of the confusion comes from.

The songs you've uploaded might have been covered (pardon the pun) by YT's Music Policies, which consists of a list of songs that YT has license agreements for. In such cases, ad revenue handling, etc. is done automatically and you don't require a license.

In other cases, however, it's solely under the discretion of the copyright owner to just grant you the license for free (i.e. they don't care), or demanding the content to be taken down, because a sync license would be thousands of dollars if not more.

This is independent from any content ID practices, which usually only apply to master recordings (e.g. original songs or bootlegs). Copyright law is a complex (and IMHO messed up) topic, but we just don't have enough information here.
And the execs at $adtech23 are absolutely furious about that; maybe the developers too, since it makes their job harder.
What do you mean by "improper editorial decisions?"

It's their platform, they can remove or restrict what people post in any way they want. If you don't like it you don't have to use it.

Every platform "polices" content. If they didn't every site would be 80%+ spam and full of porn and hate.
bacteria on Mars is considered Life.

a heartbeat on Earth is considered a clump of cells.

the reason the Second American Civil War is inevitable is because the Left and the Right have diverged into 2 separate Universes. We look at the same thing and see completely different realities. And we won't compromise our vision at all to meet in the middle and see the other side's perspective.
Also important is the order and method in which the choices are presented. Are respondents told at every question that they have "not sure" as an option? Is it the first option presented?
Too late for me to be allowed to change but I support a title change, if the mods will permit it. The site text suggests the subtitle "building up compilers and interpreters and tools from nothing". The site's actually a little broader than that; some of the links on there discussed building OSs or even CPUs, also.
That's plausible, also from personal experience with family I do think conservative media tends to be more addictive, so an average conservative will consume more news than an average liberal.
Im curious, how is life insurance a scam? Yes investing the money is probably better, but insurance is a hedge against the risk of not having saved enough because of an early death. I'm not familiar with the life insurance industry though, so I'm maybe missing something!
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I am not claiming you said so. But you've rather affirmed again, you have an emotional attachment to your dog, so you won't eat it, so your moral framework is emotional based and is logically inconsistent
This is a great example of a case where property-based testing is a good idea.
Is the iPhone a monopoly?
I would have liked to see Pizzagate compared to the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump was Vladimr Putin's sleeper agent, and that his campaign worked hand-in-hand with the Russians to steal the 2016 election. More than a few people believed that.
How are they related?
> There should be standards, even if they aren't defined by law

I don't necessarily disagree and I'm sure there were plenty of reputable publishers who wouldn't touch the protocols.

But should the agency who did published it have been hauled up before a congressional investigating committee?
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That's a very investor-friendly title. Effectively, they are taking the company private again using a legal method where investors lose the difference in stock value. It's not nice, but also not illegal. And these people were never known for their friendliness, so no investor should be surprised that they're taking the unfriendly route now.
A lot of hype. Agreed. But there are a lot of uses.

The first usage that came to my mind is healthcare. AI can help doctors to diagnose more correctly e.g. lung cancer from x-ray. Doctor may get a few errors because of his mood or his bad attention at the very day but AI will make more correct prediction because of thousands of examples it has already seen and its clear and not biased mind.
And in this sphere each life is at stake.

So yes. It is very helpful as I see it.
The G.P. was a terrible example.

In reality, Module A crashes on inputs 11, 10305, 5556430, 6867534029289, -88989, -101010101010, and -3. In Module A's Unit test, there is no rational reason to test for 2 or 6, but not for 11 (or either of the other options outlined above. So in order to have any confidence at all that the module will not crash you will have to add, assuming the input is a 32bit integer, one billion test cases. An your chance of still missing at least one of the bad cases will be 99%+ anyways.

On the other hand. The regression test should look something like A(B(C(D(10)))) and A(B(C(D(20)))), where A, B, C and D are modules and 10, 20 are typical user inputs. This approach will still miss most of the bad cases, but there is a chance that it will be able to pick up either 10305 or -3, which are the failure modes a user most likely would trigger in production.

And yes, once identified, it is good to add cases 10305 and -3 to future tests. Though it is unclear if they will belong to the unit test suite for A, B, C or D.
Amateur has nothing to do with that. Ethereum, and "smart contracts" in general, are built on such shaky foundations that unless shakiness is what you're looking for, you have nothing of interest to find there.
I’d buy a security drone from Ubiquiti in a heartbeat.
no, thank you for explaining it so well.
Hmm and I also heard John Carmack talking about problems with audio latency in conversations. 70ms is a lot!
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Remember, all of the talk about 'distributed' and 'trustless' for just about any blockchain is a lie. Just take a look at the mining pool statistics to see how many organisations are really in control.

e.g. for Handshake, the largest two mining pools control about 60% of the hashrate, meaning that only two groups (possibly both run by the same person) control the whole chain. So much for decentralized!

Even bitcoin suffers from the same centralization - the top 4 pools have over 50% hashrate (and so effectively control the blockchain).

Where did the 'distributed' blockchains go?
You could say "Your computer is trustable, if you have verified the silicon of your CPU, motherboard, etc." and it would be equally true. Secure Boot isn't perfect, but it's a lot better than no Secure Boot.

The only argument against it is that it provides a false sense of security, which is only a problem if you decrease security in other areas as a result of using Secure Boot.
My conservative news watching relatives told me they wouldn't feel safe in my city due to the "riots"

The actual "riots"?: like 100 people laid on the ground in front of the police station for a few hours and didn't do anything and marched around town chanting slogans or singing songs. I think maybe a streetfront window was broken in? But I could be misremembering.

These people are so terrified of boogeymen they've never seen, of post-apocalyptic events that don't even happen. What the fuck
love to see fascism apologists on HN
Eich stands by his actions. Or he did until recently.
Not quite sure what you're arguing here?
Most people's problem with ICE is not that it's enforcing the laws about immigration, it's how it's doing it. Do some research about the actual behavior of the organization, there are plenty of stories of unethical and illegal behavior in their pursuit of immigrants. I live in an area with a lot of southeast Indian families and the stories I've heard first-hand about how ICE agents treat them is atrocious.
> "I spent 10 years telling people my address is youtube.com/creator

channel urls are like /channel/UCoMdktPbSTixAyNGwb and i ve never heard youtubers spelling out usernames, but rather to search for the name

if one would start a video link service, they d start with a short url (+stats) maker

i think you re right about monetization though. As bad as google is at least they pay content makers, unlike the rest of big tech
What's a good place for buying these cheap eyeglasses?
On Android there is the F-Droid software repository, and there is no issue of competition with the Play Store. Would things be different on Apple phones?
> Is it really grossly immoral to have immigration checkpoints, borders and laws... and corresponding enforcement of those laws?

I don't think many people, of any political affiliation, are making an argument for open borders — that's a red herring.

I do think it is grossly immoral to detain and intern immigrants at the border indefinitely, house them in substandard living facilities, separate them from their children, and both refuse and force (in different instances) medical treatment without consent. All of those things would appear to violate Federal and International law, on top of being the wrong thing to do.
Right doesn't just magically exist, every right has to be fight for. These facebook employees are fighting for the right to censor thing their disagree with.

Sure, some people may disagree. If you disagree then you have to to fight it back.
Thank you for confirming what an incredible deal iOS developers are getting for a mere 30% fee. It sounds like Apple has created a really valuable platform that attracted wealthy customers compared to the competition and they should be rewarded for it.
The analogy works perfectly -- nobody has to buy an iPhone.
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This is not twitter

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html