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HN hands out shadowbans like candy for people suspected of vote manipulation. I completely agree with this approach because it keeps the site clean.

An interesting question to ask is if HN owes it to its users to be more transparent about responses like shadow banning and provide ways to appeal such responses. Most of would say no, the current approach is working for us and we should keep it going. But then I wonder why we’re ok with HN behaving like this but not large social media companies.
Why can't printers just run a Web server where I upload a PDF?
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The new green deal!
The universe is pretty big, and there are lots of places where unlikely things didn't happen. When the next unlikely thing happens, it most likely won't happen here.
Show HN: Batchdist, a PyTorch package for batched computations of distances
After having encountered mulitple instances of torch modules/methods promising to handling batches while only returning a vector of pairwise results instead of the full matrix, this package serves as a tool to wrap such methods in order to return full matrices (e.g. distance matrices) using fast, batched operations (without loops).
Feedback very welcome!
Julia uses dSFMT, which is as fast as xoshiro on vigna own benchmark page. I would not call that slow.
Surfaces are tablets with plug in keyboards. I'm talking about a cellular device that you can slip in your pocket
I think it's more than just us noticing such beliefs for the first time. More people than before seem to be acting on misinformation, which would be apparent even without knowing their private beliefs.
Tragically LOOP is alive and well in x86-64.
Ironic considering they still pull oil out of the ground in the middle of residential neighborhoods in LA
I would have thought they were never stored on disk (by Zoom anyway, maybe by the NSA and the Chinese). Wouldn't that require a huge amount of space?
Oculus doesn't have a monopoly on VR headsets. They have the most popular offering, but there are still plenty of others to choose from
The ballet world has similar levels of competition and harmful psychological effects as women’s gymnastics. There are a huge number of girls and women competing for an extremely small number of available jobs as a full time professional dancer for a top-tier ballet company, of which there are only a small handful in the world. And almost everyone in ballet has struggled with disordered eating at some point, including the men.
Is/was there less misinformation among a population living under strong censorship? We have several examples to choose from, and I'd wager there's more, at any point in history compared to freer societies.

> Anecdotally, it seems that the more the internet has expanded our ability to communicate, the more widespread misinformation has gotten.

I completely agree, but why should we assume falsehoods and truth travel at the same rate? History would suggest otherwise.
I'd be interested to know what your thoughts are on the UK and German models of "free speech" where no one has an absolute right to say what they want - certain subjects such as Holocaust denial or promotion of terrorism are banned. You could argue that we have been on a slippery slope for a long time but you could equally argue the slippery slope is a fallacy.

I think it's important to think about what the actual purpose is of the rights that we value. The right to free speech is simply a shortcut to a more fundamental right to allow people to live freely without undue influence from others. It may be that the absolute right to free speech might not be the best way to achieve that.
Like running an electromagnet in reverse to salvage current from a free-spinning motor? I’m trying to understand how the fields and forces interact.
CyberArk PAS: https://www.cyberark.com/products/privileged-account-securit...
One needs to do this because - should one say, for example, "100Tb" - this means very little for "regular people". If far easier to say "so much that you don't have to worry about it" " as long as you are decent about it".

And then a small minority of users take to the literal dictionary definition - which one is allowed to, which gave birth to vast amounts on legalese on the wrapping bags of sandwiches - and start to scream "you're not truly >UNLIMITED< you owe me".

And then the provider - which assumed common sense - sees that the common sense is not to be taken for granted, and starts to spell more legalese and then starts enforcing limits which are now laid out but perhaps not enforced from the start, because it assumed that people would know how to read between the lines. But said minority doesn't know how to read through the lines and then starts to search for workarounds around the limits, forcing the provider to drop in even harder limits, which affects EVERYBODY because some people need to go through life with a fine tooth comb that exploits each little thing that they can.

So this is the difference between a high trust society and a low trust society - the level of hard enforcement of rules because people will try to exploit even the smallest thing.
Right, a bad phrasing from my part; I didn't actually mean the distribution, but more like... the bang for the buck. Why would you use slow generator as a default, if you don't even get good distribution?
Anyone can create HN accounts to post any link and comment on any discussion, but certain accounts are dead on arrival, and votes from certain accounts don’t count, so you can pollute /new or discussions (especially for users with showdead on), but that doesn’t mean your content automatically get prime spot placement just by registering more accounts.

Meanwhile, clickbaiting is much more effective than creating accounts.
They aren't accepting PRs, like at all and lots of it is seriously broken.

I use Google cloud print instead. It goes out to the internet, then comes back, to be right next to me because cups is that broken.

The bugs that would fix it, have been fixed, sitting in forks, for years, unmerged.

I've literally given up. Thanks Apple
Having recently read a translation of the Rule of Benedict, I'll note that when Benedict disparages people coming together with like-minded others to form faith communities (Sarabaites, Ch. 1), he says "They live ... without a shepherd, in their own sheepfolds and not in the Lord’s," which I believe may be interpreted as a complaint about the lack of propaganda, censorship, and surveillance in their living arrangements.

Samples, by no means exhaustive:

propaganda https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50040/50040-h/50040-h.html#c...

censorship
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50040/50040-h/50040-h.html#c...

surveillance
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50040/50040-h/50040-h.html#c...
Here are some mobile concepts that I miss on OS:

- not thinking about files: I can open Notes/Drafts on my phone and get a textbox. I kinda get this with Joplin, barely.

- Real sandboxing, with a nice permission layer

- Extremely easy sharing of data between apps. Of course files are theoretically a great sharing mechanism, but the sharing mechanism in mobile OS's are the logical conclusion of the clipboard

- URIs that go deep into other apps. Lets you easily say "go over here to see details" from a completely separate system

The fact that lots of stuff are webapps lets you get pretty far on Desktop too but I think these metaphors are power user features that the desktop could learn from
Banning everyone who disagrees with the current state of the science is also not how science works; and yet YouTube is going to attempt (and fail) to do just that.

YouTube is almost certainly going to be banning literal doctors with actual PHDs from expressing scientific opinions which later turn out to be substantiated.

The article says this ban includes material that "explicitly disputes health authorities’ guidance on self-isolation or social distancing.". There are some rather eminent doctors who do exactly that. Social distancing policy is a political, not a scientific, question of trade-offs.
The title definitely should have mentioned the pressure needed though. It's the difference between "revolutionary" and "probably no practical applications, but nice for academia I guess".
This is not an argument to allow any fearmongering and actively spreading a harmful message. You can use this argument to say nothing should ever be forbidden/punished to say ever.
Read the primary sources - the investigative reports and the material (notes, texts, etc.). The reports have on more than one occasion stated that nobody involved is talking about their actions or behavior so we have no case, but the preponderance of evidence points to some seriously bad stuff going on. If your understanding of happened is based on a quick summary from CNN, you’re doing yourself a massive disservice. Don’t forget - the reason we don’t want this crap to happen is because the shoe always ends up on the other foot.
If a wind turbine is 50m high, and a coastal house is no more than 50m above sea level, then as long as it's 30 miles off short there's no problem.

Of course there's a question about ownership of "ocean views". Who owns the sea? If you have a view over a field you don't own, can the field owner put up a water tower? Or barn? Or wind turbine? If your view in enhanced by the horses, can he choose to grow maize instead?
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Limiting the registers to be specific pairs is awful if you're implementing a register allocator.
What's hostile about it? You can get to the other side without ever having to wait for the cars to stop and you don't even need to walk up the stairs because there's an escalator.
If your typing speed on a keyboard is comparable to your typing speed on a phone, it sounds like you might have a lot to gain from learning touch typing, look it up. I was in your same situation not long ago
This surprises me. With Monte Carlo methods, wouldn't you rather want quasi-random numbers[0], because they allow the simulation to converge asymptotically faster? Those are certainly not anything like crypto-strength.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence
A case study in implementation inheritance
> Youtube already had plenty of free speech where everyone can say anything unhindered and is rewarded if they generate attention.

Hard to separate that out from the algorithms that promote videos. Would it be as bad, in your eyes, if discovery was "flattened", so to speak? i.e. no recommends, no shaping of the feed, no shadowbans or hidden videos
HP tryed to do it with the Elite X3 and a kind of dumb notebook (all logic in the phone). When it came out, Windows Mobile was already dead, so ..
On Android there is DEX (at least I have it from Samsung), but it seams it exist, but there is no big love from wherever-is-behind-it.
How much code can you fit in your head?
When can I see Starlink Satellite Train?
Isn't some press person for Biden speaking on his behalf basically the same as Biden saying it himself?

>And you'll note they didn't engage in discussing the specific allegations.

He addressed some parts of the specific allegations (whether a meeting took place), without addressing other parts (whether the emails are real). This immediately makes people think the email is real, which is what throwawa3495 was pointing out.
Wasn't there "an update on" cloud print not so long ago?
Soaps have used cliffhangers forever and they are the definition of episodic tv.
Some (professional ones, e.g. Canon) do - additionally to offering other interfaces.

But let me tell you, it is terrible not being able to print from your system dialogue.

Then there is IPP and LPD/LPR. But those are either limited and sometimes the results not ideal (LPD), or again rely on a driver on your system to access the features of your printer (IPP) e.g. double sided printing, toner levels, print quality, etc.
I hate it as well, and if I could come up with some new way of advancing our species aside from free speech I would. I cannot and cannot see how such a thing would ever be possible.

Here's a bit of sunshine: the human species has not changed in thousands of years. We're still the same hairless monkeys we were back when people were thinking up all kinds of cool shit. Knowing this, it follows that 10% or so of the population are, well, nuts. Another 10% are so are willing to do anything to become famous. It has always been this way. (Of course, I'm just guessing the exact numbers)

What's happened is that these folks are using this wonderful new instant worldwide publishing tool we've made to continue their pathologies. And companies are happy to make money letting them do so as long as nobody gets too upset. We are now reaching the point where lots of people are getting upset and those companies are running around like a single fireman in a city on fire trying to figure out how to make their business keep going.

The good news is that we're still the same species as before, and we've solved over and over again the problem of what it takes to have a peaceful and progressive society. The problem we have is that social media should not exist. It shouldn't be regulated, broken up, or any of that. It simply should not exist. The incentives here are not aligned with the survival of our species (There's a huge discussion of what to make instead. That's for another day)

I think the problem is not easy to solve, but it's certainly easy to explain. It's not the end of civilization as we know it, at least it doesn't have to be.
> Because Asian countries were basing their advice on science and the US was basing the advice on what would poll well with Republican voters who believe individual freedom is more important than community welfare.

It was the WHO who repeatedly stated that healthy people shouldn't wear masks, or close borders for that matter, and most politicians across the world didn't question that. And why would they, it's the job of the WHO to understand the science for us.

(If anything, Trump was initially harder on COVID than most by pushing for travel restrictions. At that time it was the Democratic NYC establishment that put individual freedom over safety [1], the two positions only flipped later on.)

The initial response, especially by the WHO, was an absolutely disaster. Asian countries did better than the US and the West in general because they _didn't_ listen to the 'experts'.

[1] https://twitter.com/billdeblasio/status/1234648718714036229
why do you need to figure out what that number is?

Just use the storage as intended - for your daily needs.

Daily needs do not include a content mirror for pirate bay, or archiving every twitch stream in existence.

Use it in good faith, and if people think you're using too much they will send in a salesman, not the enforcing agents.
>You can see some of these on HN here:

Looking at comments and upvotes numbers, it's not like their HN efforts were any effective.
Could you share stories? It could increase awareness that it's not green fields where pink unicornw come play.
> We shouldn't be charitable to racism, sexism, delusional religious beliefs, or fascism; they are too harmful to the world. In this case, you're asking me to be charitable to a sexist article whose author does not justify their credentials beyond being a professor of philosophy; perhaps they are only accidentally sexist here?

If author justified his credentials with more titles, it would be better? If he was a biologist, his paper would stop being sexist in your opinion? Why does it matter?

As for the article itself, it isn't sexist IMHO unless you believe that stating that the biological sex exists and in human case there are two sexes is sexist. If that's so then the most biologists I've met are jest sexists and I should probably call the police and denounce them as petty criminals.

You're right that author contradicts himself in the sentence "The fact that no species has evolved more than two biological sexes is also a puzzle". It's definitely a logical error on the author's side and is plainly wrong, but it's not the main point of the paper.
I try to frame those issues as "Is this within the bounds of the value I agreed to provide in return for this pay?" If "no", but my moral code demands I speak, then I'm out. Sorting out expectations directly with supervisors or HR also seems advisable where unclear.

Valuable employees leaving due to company misses on important social issues is itself a very powerful form of advocacy.
Or the Symbian and Windows CE/Pocket PC phones, before it.
If it's not profitable, then that means the market can't solve it, ergo we need regulation
Even if those politics are anti-science?
If only certain (Republican) politicians would learn to keep their ignorant opinions out of science then maybe that would happen. When one party goes to war against facts and science then every scientist has a moral duty to push back.
Because that's just another shitty implementation of a print service.

There is a reason why print services are implemented on the Desktop OS and not on the printer (well I'm sure many printers do have a shitty implementation): Because there's few Desktop OSes but so many printers. You want to split the work and implement each thing where it is most efficient.

Things a print spooler should do:

- Queue print jobs, be able to watch progress, cancel them.

- Manage permissions, maybe implement quota or similar.

- Offer desktop integration in print dialogues: N-up, shrink, duplex, and other common postprocessing features. With a print dialogue, a lot of manual labor of creating temporary files and editing them with a particular application is saved.
Own and own. They have licensed it under a permissive open source license https://www.cups.org/blog/2017-11-07-cups-license-change.htm... so everyone would be free to develop it further as they want.
To make a statement, and not deny it, is different not making statements about random facts.
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>Because Asian countries were basing their advice on science

Actually for the most part this isn't true, our government was also telling us to wear masks but because of our previous experience with SARS everyone wore them anyway. Now of course it is illegal not to wear one.
Hi! thanks for the feedback. I'm going to change it to a bulleted list, as you suggest.

What it does is:
- load your application from a configuration file
- you can have multiple configuration file (i.e. one per environment: local, dev, prod, staging, etc.)
- tell applipy which environment to load through an environment variable `APPLIPY_ENV`
- implement self-contained or interdependant applipy modules that you can tell applipy to include through the config file
- implement multiple AppHandles: an interface that implements on_init(), on_start() and on_shutdown()
- modules can register the AppHandles
- applipy will gracefully manage the lifecycle of your application

An example of use case is a web page I have for an online guild. It has an integration with discord and, of course, login with permisions, etc.

When I'm developing locally I can simply go to the local.yaml configuration file and comment out the modules I don't want to run locally.

Because of the way it is architected I can easily remove the discord, login and permission check modules and run it locally like that.

Then, I also have a prod.yaml file with all production modules and configurations.

I also have different data store implementations for local and production environments. I did this by defining an interface that all classes that require persistence access require and I include different modules, that register in the injector different implementations of the same interface, in the configuration files for each environment.

I hope that explains it better. I will for sure use the above explanation to update the README.md :D

PD: that was only applipy core. I've also published other libraries that build on top of it: https://gitlab.com/applipy
This literally what Samsung phones do right now. No need to wait for Apple to save you.
EDIT: Blergh, confused LOOP with REP, but keeping the below comment so the rest of the thread still makes sense.

FWIW LOOP isn't the worse thing in the world once you have dedicated silicon for it anyway generating micro ops in the instruction decode pathway. It's just a pretty cute run length encoding scheme for the instruction stream.
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For a view less centered on the pcg vs xoshiro world:

https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/war-of-the-random-numbe...
But did WHO make the original claim based on sound evidence or trying to appease a certain government? Taiwan disagreed with that assessment early on.
I don’t know why we give politicians the benefit of the doubt. You and I knew that CGI was a pay for play scheme before the emails confirmed it. We also know that nobody pays a crackhead son of the VP of the US with zero industry or qualifying professional experience $50k/mo. without expecting something in return that said cracky is uniquely positioned to deliver.

For the record, I don’t hate crackheads. Also, yeah this cynicism goes for Trump too. It should be how we regard all politicians, as the profession overwhelmingly shows a high preponderance towards deceit, graft, rent-seeking, kickbacks, etc.
that is a great deal slower than the time it takes me to duplicate a ready-to-go windows 10 home virtualbox VM, copying about 25GB of data SSD-to-same-SSD, and then run it.
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It still seems that every time you push people from vividly describing what the problem is, as they see it, to cloaking it in something bureaucratic like "considered all possible concerns", you get lower bandwidth.

And, both your setups imagine the main course being a verbal meeting tomorrow, no notes, only memories. Sometimes this is a great way to hash out problems. Sometimes it's not. Maybe the underling is scared that his words will be twisted by Cheryl on the way to big boss Bob, and would prefer to write it down to cover his ass... and if he can't, maybe he convinces himself it's not a big deal, and doesn't tell Cheryl at all.
>"The right to free speech is simply a shortcut to a more fundamental right to allow people to live freely without undue influence from others."

You are asserting a series of very controversial points here:

1) Some rights are more important than others.

2) Positive rights can override negative rights.

3) 'Living freely without undue influence from others' is more important than 'the right to free speech'.

Which philosophical or moral framework are you using? This may be compatible with utlitarianism and Rawlsianism (though you'd have to do the numbers on the long-term impacts, not just your short-term goals), but I'm not sure how other ethics would support it.
Yes there are still a lot unsolved problems. Starting with the small things like ..

- Positions from the icons on the Desktop when you are mobile or on the docking station with a larger and 2 or 3 monitors.
In February 2003, I bought Nokia 3510

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3510

What I could I do with 2003 Internet?

Download J2ME applications from Swisscom and Sunrise, including some crufty map applications based on cell position.
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Absolutely terrible terrible idea. Deeply complex issues, like a global pandemic caused by a new virus which there is little understanding of require liberal treatment of new ideas, and a free flow of information, to enable society to collectively tackle them.

People having the liberty to publish information that may be wrong is how information that may be right has a chance to get exposure.

We do not know, before dissemination and public review, what is and isn't correct information.

The process of critiquing a flawed analysis, or critiquing a flawed criticism of a correct analysis, is also extremely valuable.