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This is my line of thinking. Which is why I see professions that deal with the real world (engineers, doctors, lawyers to some extent) remaining more grounded in their thinking when compared to those that focus on people's opinions (politicians, media, academics, professional moralisers). The former are regularly conditioned to think in terms of unavoidable realities, while the later are repeatedly conditioned to drift further and further into their collective delusions.
Bandcamp is such a great service. Pretty much all artists and labels that I care about have a presence there and I really like that I can archive FLAC files of everything I buy. Too bad there’s not a similar drm-free service for movies! (Please chime in if you know of one)
I hate the pressure people put on open-source developers of working for free, forever, on projects that they started. It is one of the main reasons I stopped making my side-projects open-source. All you get is a deluge of requests and complaints, some of them barely coherent, and almost zero people actually contributing back.

Maybe they don't care about it anymore. Or maybe they do but don't have the time/motivation to work on it. Some people have lives. Do you want to see changes to this project? Then fork it.
Why a throwaway account? Let's hear some examples where millions of independent thinkers and analysts supported the things you talk about for over a decade.
You make a really valid point. We've been testing the product by putting it out there to get feedback and validation, and then work on our pricing strategy based on the positioning we take. Given our architecture, one of our aims was to offer a free forever plan, the other was to have an eject strategy so that you can take you project with you as a complete and functional code repository.

We feel that currently, the learning curve is pretty minimal. Given the hours it'll save one from coding, maintaining and bug fixing. However, we will definitely keep this in mind when thinking ahead.

Thank you so much for the feedback!
have you got in touch with any Twitter employees to escalate this?
> We now know that 297mg of LSD will kill an elephant.

... along with a boat load of Thorazine followed by a tranquilizer.
In moderate Muslim countries, and in the west, wearing hijab is intermediate in voluntariness. Like wearing ankle-length skirts in the 1950s in the US. In Bangladesh, where I’m from, it went from pretty much non-existent to being very common, as the export of middle eastern culture happens throughout the Islamic world. Nobody will send you to jail for not wearing it, but there is a lot of cultural pressure. I don’t like it, because I’d rather see Bangladesh lean into its Anglo heritage than its Islamic one, but that doesn’t justify making it illegal in a developed country. Even among conservatives in the US, the vast majority oppose banning hijab.
Yes, tribalism is at the root of all group-on-group conflict. There are two governing ideologies to deal with this: collectivism and individualism. Collectivism attempts to unite the tribes, so to speak, while individualism seeks to shrink each tribe to a party of one. Obviously tribal warfare happens no matter what, but I think the historical record is pretty clear about which one has done a better job of minimizing it.
Remarkable is nice, e-ink is also nice. I live glued to my Kobo e-book reader and love reading novels and non-fiction from 300 dpi e-ink screen.

However, e-ink lacks speed and color. The papers I read use a lot of color in diagrams and waiting for e-ink screen to refresh, reduce its color palette to accelerate and re-refresh to return its previous mode is both distracting and flow breaking for me.

Also, I use a lot of colors for different things on paper. Different highlighters for different stuff (yellow for "further research", blue to "remember this part"), etc.

iPad with Good reader is almost as good as my workflow but this thing is heavy, backlit screens are eye-straining...

Since PDFs are not made for screens it's also distracting to zoom and scroll too.

So we need another format (maybe ePub) for academic papers to read them effectively on digital devices.
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The unfortunate part of this is that in a world where manufacturers compete independently on chargers, I think it will be a race to the bottom. Even apple users may accept the drastically lower cost of a $10 charger vs. Apple's. I expect to see more electrical fires in the future as a consequence. The build quality of some of the chargers that get sold online is downright dangerous.
It mostly changed the economics of my frustration. I’ve never owned an inkjet printer that didn’t infuriate me at least every other print.

The laserjet I’ve owned for 4ish years now has yet to infuriate me.
> But now you don't have granular sharing mechanisms

Many (Windows) apps support OLE/COM-based objects which can be copied, mixed and processed in between applications. This allows the clipboard to hold rich objects and not just text-based contents. Things like tables, images, rich text, contacts... and even files, or folders of files!

This allows for a much more rich (and empowering!) way to share data than currently done on popular mobile platforms.

This was already implemented back in Windows 95 or something. It's really old tech. Not sure how well this concept is implemented (or at all) on other desktop operating systems though, so it might not be a "universal" desktop solution for everyone.

That said it can clearly be done better than mobile, because on Windows it has already been so for two and half decades.
I assure you, the actors notice. Shakespeare is always funniest in his tragedies. The comedies have almost universally aged badly, but the kind of humor he puts in the tragedies holds up much better.

A piece of advice I was given very early on is to find the funny parts of the tragedies, and that has served me well. Hamlet in particular is very clever about wordplay -- far better than nearly all of Shakespeare's actual clowns (though the clown role in Hamlet, as the gravediggers, is among his very best comic writing).
This is by far the most efficient example from the article, and seems to make this kind of system viable for domestic use, but I question whether the numbers are true, as I've seem no follow-up studies.
>I 'd like to see sites like HN become vigilant against this kind of fluff marketing content

One of the reasons I continue to use HN is that there seems to be very little marketing content that bubbles to the top articles, compared to almost every other site. Something is working.
> Some people are clearly more often wrong about facts than others.

When half the country disagrees with the other half as to who that is, I'm not sure "clearly" is the right word to use.

And if you don't entertain the possibility that it could be you, it will be you.
The other way hearing aids will become widely acceptable is by the normalisation of wearing them by everyone.

Which is already happening. The hardware in an Airpod is effectively the same as that in a hearing aid. Wearing an Airpod isn't a sign of a disability, with all the stigma that comes attached to that.

Something like these earrings blur the line even more between hearing aid and headphone. You could actually imagine wearing it all the time (including during conversations) without appearing rude - a big problem with just wearing earbuds.

The only thing missing is the software to do local DSP and amplification. It's almost certainly possible - bluetooth headphones have all the required components - but the manufacturers aren't writing the software to amplify ambient noise directly. Either because they don't believe the market is there or because they don't want to venture into the "medical devices" category that hearing aids land in, with all the added R&D expense that entails.
I used to own a large APAC agency. We had six figures in Facebook going through us every month. Issues like ad accounts being blocked, poor performance, etc received no feedback or conversation. Google over time assigned an account manager and improved support but Facebook was always awful. In one instance email went to Sheryl Sandberg, reply to which got forwarded down to 6 people who eventually gave us a 'this is policy' answer. I often advice founders to find friends who work there to get their issues resolved - because there is no formal sensible way to get it done.
A neutral recommendation engine is one that simply recommends things that I'll probably like, based on other things I liked without any human interference.
Duplicated submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24786731

That's from me, the author, and I use HN notify to check if anyone replies. If you have any questions then comment on the post, reply to this, or comment on the other submission, and I'll definitely see it.
dalbasal dislikes fb more than anyone. But, thinking that fb ads suck while a highly roi-motivated industry pours $70bn pa into it is ludicrous.
Absolutely yes. The default GC (not ARC/ORC) is not stop-the-world.

"Nim's memory management is deterministic and customizable with destructors and move semantics, inspired by C++ and Rust. It is well-suited for embedded, hard-realtime systems."
I'm not gonna deny that happened. What's interesting is how the US downplayed Chinese violations of human rights, which were way worse than Soviet violations at the time (70's) for political reasons. The Soviets were the chief enemy back then.
https://outline.com/AkJsKv to get past TCs ever increasing popups
> Actually, if we could snap our fingers and wish social media out of existence tomorrow nothing really bad would happen, besides some influencers becoming poorer.

I disagree. I would lose the ability to contact many good friends.
The realities of censorship are and historically have been large net losses. That was one of the large premises of the founding of the United States, among many other ideals.

So in the interest humanity and historical evidence, censorship is and will always be a bad idea. The best ideas will eventually win, as history has also shown us.

Source: US constitution, Venezuelan history, Romanian history, British history, Korean history, Vietnam history, Chinese history, Cuban history, Cambodian history, Soviet Union history, German history. That’s just a start.
Yeah...the "lol" thing is off-putting though. Makes it feel like I'm reading an 11 year olds diary.
whataboutism 101.
> SFTP came along as basically a working, feature-complete replacement

The FTP standard has a number of features that SFTP doesn't include, such as record-oriented file transfer (STRU R, MODE B), store-unique (STOU – you upload the file, the server picks the name instead of the client). Many of these features are rarely used, and many clients/servers don't even implement them, but SFTP is not a feature-complete replacement for FTP. But there are some environments (e.g. mainframe environments) where these features are used, and these feature gaps make it difficult or impossible to replace FTP with SFTP
I recommend the book "Is that a fish in your ear? Translation and the meaning of everything" [1] which covers all aspects of translation in an interesting and entertaining way.

He describes simultaneous translators as extreme athletes, and I think this article gives you some indication why.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/That-Fish-Your-Ear-Translation/dp/086...
> If the answer to this is: it is all backed up automatically into the cloud and your new device will become a clone of your lost device, then you don't need the device in the first place, all you need is a terminal.

Why do I only need a terminal if my data is backed up to the cloud, exactly? If I wish to watch a video that I downloaded to my phone, I can do that without having connection to the internet. If I wish to edit a photo with an application on my phone, all the processing of that file can be done locally on the device. Having a cloud backup of a device does not mean that there's no value in having a device with its own capabilities outside of the cloud.

> If the answer is: you're screwed, then maybe storing all your stuff on a device small enough to be easily stolen/broken was a bad idea.

For any valuable data you should have more than one backup solution, including data you store on your phone. Just because there's more risk of losing your phone than your desktop pc in your home doesn't mean that you take less measures to mitigate the chance of data loss on your desktop pc.
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There are always different perspective on everything. You can determine the value of each for yourself and try to convince others of its merits. That is your freedom and your limit.

> You make it sound like both sides are perpetuating hoaxes

Which sides? Which hoaxes?
I don't see issue here

How is this different than delisting video persuading people to get suicide?
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And cooling, especially in humid climates.
> I do not like the idea that hard, easily proven facts can be overwhelmed by voluminous bullshit.

In principle this sounds agreeable, in practice it is often not that easy because things get muddied fast as soon as politics are involved.

I'm very skeptical/opposed to this particular measure, and others like it, because well-intentioned people are also fallible.

Disclaimer: I work at Alphabet, but this is strictly my personal opinion.
What I'm saying is, you don't need the permissions at all. From the user's perspective, everything is 777. If you happen to have the edge case where more than one user is using a personal computer, and there is a desire to keep things safe from each other, then you should use encryption for this since it actually works. File permissions are easily bypassed with local access and a boot disk.

As I recall, Pottering is actually working on portable home directories for Linux. Naturally, the solution is over-engineered and involves a new service and file format.
... because the channels through which the ink is propelled are only microns wide, and the ink volumes which are distributed per drop are in the picoliter range which requires a complex piezo-electric control system.
I used the open source foo2zjs driver with this printer successfully for quite a while in case that's helpful.
a. If you search the NY Times, you can find a piece by a Black football coach talking about the tradeoffs for kids looking for a way up and out.
b. Back in probably the 1940s, Joe DiMaggio said that no kid from a rich family every made it in the big leagues. Baseball, at least since helmets, is not that dangerous a sport.
Biden has been a politician for decades. It's not hard to figure out what Biden is.
Friendly reminder that rms launched the FLOSS movement because he was incensed when he couldn't program a printer at MIT to do something he wanted.
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I agree. The thing that makes me suspicious is an absolute demand that things have to be taken at, and discussed at, face value.

The existence of malign intent is hardly mysterious. It's like the Firesign Theater skit with a political guy declaring, "And you can believe me. Because I never lie. And I'm always right." Part of the gag is that the guy picked to read the line is capable of delivering it really, really convincingly. You go, 'wow! He really means that… hey waitaminnit…'

I think it's interesting to see these tech giants react to a repeating pattern of using direct manipulative lying as a weapon. It fits with some of my 'singularity' theories: corporations are like aggregate people, and AI is a still higher level than that, and it's neither easy nor desirable to use these newer forms of intelligence to replicate the worst follies of the individual human.

At some point, tolerating the wilder excesses of the individual 'cell' will kill the 'host' organism, which if it's a corporation depends on living humans, if it's an AI depends on living human societies. If you've got an AI that isn't really an AI and is just a large informational weapon, or a corporation that isn't really an aggregate person and is just the intentions of one human expressed through power, there's no constraint on the actions of the larger more powerful entity. But if you have the larger organism (whether it's a corporation or a proper AI with a broad enough awareness) it's going to eventually resist self-destructive actions even if they're expressed in a complex way. I see this as YouTube as a larger organism recognizing it is being used as a weapon and trying to protect itself against future punishment or diminishment by preventing itself from being used in a particular way.
In the place where Xcode for iPad is.

And yet iPad is still very useful computing device for millions.

Dex has fully functional browser, office apps, media software and file management. That covers huge amounts of use-cases.
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Where do you get 300 mcg slow release? I struggle to get a 500 mcg spray in India and they recommend 2000-4000 mcg (4-8 sprays) and there are 5000 mcg pills. I suspect they are an order of magnitude more than the body produces so I get withdrawals when I'm off them.
"It's almost like saying 'This is a safe drunk driver'"
Ramani's video on 'healthy narcissism', 10:28 https://youtu.be/QiQCsrWtUNo?t=46

She also has a video on "communal narcissists" - a breed of narcissists on a mission to help people that are very careful about documenting every single thing they do. Upon closer inspection, it turns out many people do good things only to be in spotlight and are mean to people close to them, including assistants who work for their success. She says whether it's worth it for the society in the end is a philosophical question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF8fiHTbGtY
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You can also remove the filter for users, but use site maps to make those posts not visible to search engines.
There are lots of DIY plotters, but printers are just way more complicated.
> I will go ahead and assume that somewhere in Moscow there is a hole with 100 dead cats.

I'm pretty sure there are a few barrels full dead cats and dogs sitting in the back of shelters all over the USA right now. Waiting for their turn through rendering plant shredder.
Democrats argue we need to spend more and pay teachers more. The argument that we need to do a better job making sure the money we spend actually benefits kids, that’s a different argument, and will get you branded a Republican.
The Chief Scientist of the WHO still believed as recently as August that the mortality rate for this virus was still at 1% [1], even though Sweden had published its first data at the start of that month saying that the mortality rate in their case was around 0.4-0.6%. I've seen people mentioning a more recent CDC number of 0.35% mortality.

So, when even the Chief Scientist of the WHO doesn't know what she's talking about then based on what premises will the YT censors carry out the censorship?

[1] https://www.theweek.co.uk/108312/coalition-scientists-call-f...
I get the notion, but $70bn doesn't get spent on that many things... Maybe weapons projects.

Anyway... this is just not the case here. The advertisers that pour budgets into fb aren't suckers. They're highly roi-sensitive and data cognizant.

All advertising fails much of the time, but when it doesn't it scales.
It's okay because you bribe the two major parties equally?
Scientific advancement doesnt happen through youtube though, but peer reviewed journals.
Could the explanation be that different ad platforms perform better for different products or services?

I've heard (no direct experience) that FB leads tend to be high-quality when one is advertising, e.g., mobile games monetized through in-game purchasing.
"asylum is a human right"
"determine who is eligible"

Well, if it's a human right, then everyone. But it's not, which is why you have this twisted logic.

There is no right to freely cross borders.
By that logic, what should the world do if a country is violating basic human rights of over a million people?
They do whatever they want. It’s a private platform. If you detest censorship then don’t use private platforms.
Why use FB at all? I understand they have the audience, but if they treat you so poorly to the point of bankruptcy, what is the point? Aren't you encouraging bad behaviour by sticking with them?
This has been repeatedly debunked. Crowdstrike, who was hired for the security audit, states very explicitly that their IR team had proof that COZY BEAR and FANCY BEAR had breached the network.[0]

> To reference, CrowdStrike’s account of their DNC investigation, published on June 14, 2016, “CrowdStrike Services Inc., our Incident Response group, was called by the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the formal governing body for the US Democratic Party, to respond to a suspected breach. We deployed our IR team and technology and immediately identified two sophisticated adversaries on the network – COZY BEAR and FANCY BEAR…. At DNC, COZY BEAR intrusion has been identified going back to summer of 2015, while FANCY BEAR separately breached the network in April 2016.”

0: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...
A better wording would be "I find I don't actually play retro games, I visit them for 5 minutes - driven by nostalgia. Then I realize the evolution of gaming has come a long way."

That may be true for you, but I've played through games like Quake 1, SMB3, and Super Mario Land II this year. I love retro games and enjoy them more as an adult than when I was a kid. Plenty of us play retro games legitimately and not just as a 5 minute nostalgia hit. Modern games are not necessarily better or worse than older ones
> it has many errorneous statements

Do you have any examples?
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The exceptions to that are not notable, they're commonplace and spread across every discipline. They are littered through all of modern history.

Thinking we've cracked the code of rational thought and avoiding groupthink is silly.
Who do you use instead?
What we get today is the anti-hero. The inheritors of the tragedy are movies like Fight Club, The Godfather, etc. Shakespeare used the anti-hero very well: Richard III, Othello, and Macbeth all resonate very strongly with modern audiences.

I'm not entirely sure I'd put Hamlet in that category, and really points up what you're saying. Hamlet is tragic in the Greek sense, a concept we rarely get today. Hamlet's more heroic than anti-heroic: he's got a body count but he's not vicious about it. He at least wants to be a good person -- not just by his own lights but by what he thinks others expect of him. (Unlike the more vicious anti-heroes, who don't see themselves as evil but aren't averse to having other people see them that way.)
It's also very fast on AMD (not any slower than the equivalent dec/jnz), so use it if you want your software to run faster on AMD and slower on Intel...
Sorry, I'm just coming up to speed on BuildBot in response to your question. There are a lot of tools out there, so apologies if I am misinformed.

Okay. From my quick reading, BuildBot is a nice way to run your tests in parallel. It also has Jenkins-like dependencies, where a successful build can trigger another build.

In Conducto, these parallel and serial steps aren't broken apart, they are combined into a single tree. The tree lets you compose these steps to do bigger and more sophisticated tasks, all within a single build. Check out https://medium.com/conducto/cant-teach-an-old-dag-new-tricks... for more details.

This makes it easy to chain together steps like "Build my artifacts", then "Test them", then "Deploy my app", where each of the steps has more detail.

Also, Conducto has a big focus on debugging that I don't see in BuildBot. In my experience, debugging new features is a major productivity bottleneck for developers, and we built Conducto to make it easy to reproduce errors and solve them quickly, even in long-running pipelines.

I'll keep reading, these are my first thoughts.