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> Facts and transparency are the intended pillars of the modern First Amendment

I don’t think we can ascribe intentions that easily. Speech is also the way people process their emotions, clarify their thoughts, get into dialogue with other people and form a dialectic to discover the truth. If people can’t fight their with words, they will fight with their swords, because they will lose hope of integrating their world-view with others.

I am also bothered the word facts getting thrown out that easily. We are all exploring an infinite problem space with limited knowledge and processing power we have. This has 2 consequences a) no one can have the epistemological monopoly on truth and b) one could definitely deceive themselves and others with factual information that otherwise doesn’t give the complete picture.

Which means, there is no terminal place for reality, and we always need to be in the process of integrating new data, including the perspective of others.

Author bends over backwards to ultimately manufacture consent for censorship, but the problem has never been about misinformation. It is not even about the volume of content to sift true with new media. It is the new platforms themselves with their perverse incentinves.

When we read twitter, we think we are interacting with people. But just like fish not seeing the water, we don’t see the medium, and the fact that the largest entity we are interacting with is the AI that keeps curating the content we see for one and only goal: engagement.

Behind the curtains, the biggest applied psychology experiment is being run by the best paid PhDs of the world; your every interaction is processed through the lens of every single heuristic you have and their failure modes (fallacies, biases) are exploited in the name of engagement.

The result is of course we going crazy, because no one, not even the most self-disciplined stoic, can defend against prolonged exposure to this machine and preserve their rationality.

So to assume the answer to this madness is to restrict speech is not only futile but also harmful. It is empowering the filtering role these platforms play, and will definitely drive us crazier.

Instead I propose this solution; marketplace of ideas now has to incorporate the marketplace for AIs that curate those ideas to be complete. Make it mandatory for any sufficiently large content curator to have alternative recommendation engines users can pick from. Then watch people chosing ones that doesn’t make them enraged at the expense of engagement, that rewards curious, honest intellectual discourse, that doesn’t reward impulsivity etc.

Those recommendation engines are the hidden parties in our speech, constantly whispering “have you heard so and so said this” and carrying around the most enraging but engaging stuff, because it can make a few cents showing you ads everytime you let it speak. We need to make and pick ones that has the best interest of people in mind, not just shareholders’.
I just simply cannot think of a world where cloud based development takes off. I want control of my system, I want my code to run on my hardware, I want to be able to get into the nitty gritty and see what's going on.

Does anyone use these in a running production system? What was your experience like? My only previous experiences were being forced to use Salesforce's god awful tools
I'm curious whats your definition of "ready".

I'm doing a similar quasi-local-first project with p2p. Ive been toying with libp2p[1], which underpins a number of distributed storage solutions, and originated from ipfs.

> [1]: https://libp2p.io
Conversion losses make the generator idea lackluster. Vertical axis turbines would be a lot of complexity and weight for dubious benefit. Freestanding wingsails like this already have very wide response to wind. Tacking isn't that great of a concern.
Well, the X1 is not exactly cheap hardware.

There was recently a news that all Lenovo laptops will be Linux certified so I guess there's little change to have issues with a Lenovo Legion. Turns out the trackpad just won't work. I never encountered this -- usually it was the WiFi that might cause issues (and of course, waking up from sleep).
It is a more general problem on Amazon, and in other internet resellers. Products are proposed at insane price, and stay there during month or years, waiting for a dumb buyer. This is annoying, because when you browse Amazon looking for something interesting, you are polluted with all theses dumb offers.
Is this limitation of most general code editors? Has neovim fixed this?
People will look at this like the old phone switchboards... Operator connect me to www.webcrawler.com please
I had been running the self-hosted version of Cloud9 back before Amazon acquired it. Once they did, development for that version was dropped and you can no longer use the current version outside of AWS. No bueno.

Eventually I found code-server and now I run that in disposable containers on my home server. It's based on vscode and has been working pretty well for me.

https://github.com/cdr/code-server
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I think Jaron Lainer would find this interesting.
I’m sure that it is better to learn English from a young age, yes. But as it stands currently, you have an advantage over me.
We're still here, chatting on the Internet from our cozy apartments using our expensive devices.
Rackspace was sold to a private equity company in late 2016. Most of their senior staff has jumped ship since then, and services have been decreasing in quality. It's essentially a different company, and not one I'd host anything important on.
This is why I have relatively new early occulus device sitting boxed on a shelf -- I got it just after ditching FB and just befor FB bought Occulus.
Since the listing is caused by water and failed bilge pumps, and since moving the oil seems to be politically contentious, is there no hope of option D pumping out the water and then repairing the bilge pumps? Perhaps this only kicks the can down the road, but aside from being perhaps politically less contentious, one might imagine that being able to pump out water requires a less specialized operation?

Also, the wikipedia page for the Narabima says it was "abandoned". Does maritime salvage law enter into this? I.e. absent intervention by some government, is this basically an opportunity for any private party with the right equipment to try to go out and claim 1.3M barrels of oil?
> Why though would bordeebook want to make sure theirs is always more expensive? This would seem to guarantee they would get no sales. But maybe this isn’t right – they have a huge volume of positive feedback – far more than most others. And some buyers might choose to pay a few extra dollars for the level of confidence in the transaction.

Alternatively bordeebook may be focused on when the competing book sells out (these are used book listings on Amazon which are single units). Then they will be the only alternative, and at a 27% markup. Books also often get bought in bursts (group sales, class assignment, labs, book clubs), so this might be reasonable purchase pattern prediction.
https://packetstream.io is 100% opt-in and transparent
It's ironic that Emily Bazelon, the author of this essay, is the granddaughter of the late influential federal judge David Bazelon. Judge Bazelon was a well-known progressive and a well-known free speech proponent. Although his granddaughter shares his broadly progressive worldview, her position on this issue is different.

The evolution from David to Emily reflects that of the US left as a whole. Most people like to praise free speech as a theory. In practice, it is a tool for those who don't occupy the commanding heights of a culture to push back against those who do. When the New Left was ascendant in the 1960s and 1970s, promotion of free speech was an important component of its rise to cultural power. Now that its intellectual descendants occupy the commanding heights, they view it as a threat rather than an asset.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCvwyScn9jU briefly describes apparent learning by association in plants. For more, look up monica gagliano
True, but when it's among the 1st Ryzen laptops and you need a beefy CPU for work you might take a chance!

I still hope a good kernel hacker will buy it and fix the trackpad. I would even chip in some money in a fund, but it's not clear to me how that is done.
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First post about this was from Sep 14th. This has been going on for a while.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/09/14/crash/

How well does Linux work with Thunderbolt 3 docks?

Chris from Linux Unplugged says OWC docks work well in Linux.
You nailed my emotional response completely as a satisficer. Any advice on reading with a neutral eye? As a satisficer I dread the convos with my maximizer friends who seem to imply I am worth less since I don’t want to grind all the time. Perhaps that’s a problem with the friends, but I’m not sure how to differentiate.
I think that path gets you to the JVM or something similar.

Let’s say you use library A, get a string out of it, and want to pass that to a function in library B. That will only work if both libraries have the same idea about what a string is. The same argument applies to arrays, hash tables, etc.

Similarly, the wish to be able to have a serialization library that works across languages will add restrictions.

Also, do you support bare functions? If so, you’ll have to tweak things for Java. Do you support function overloading, and if so, how? Do you have multimethods? If not, you’re putting languages that do at a disadvantage. If you do, languages that don’t will be problematic.

The only examples I can think of where that works reasonably well are C/C++/Objective-C (with the C ABI as the intermediate), Java/scala (but note that scala was designed to work on the JVM, in the same way C++ and Objective-C was designed to work ‘on’ C), and C#/F# (again, F# was designed for .NET)

Swift is designed to work with Objective-C and, because of it, with C and, to a lesser extent, C++. This tries to make that a larger intent.
> The response strikes me as being indicative of mental illness. And I don't mean that as an insult - I mean that when confronted with that they're clearly irrational. And something's gotta be going on their heads that makes them cling to this hypothesis.

This thinking is dangerous. You open the doors to labelling every opinion that isn't considered rational or part of the status quo to be a product of mental illness.

e.g I find those AI generated pictures of people that look like real photos to be mildly disturbing. It is clearly irrational, however I don't think people could claim I am mentally ill because of it.

Currently there is a push to make racism a mental illness. I see no evidence of that at all. I've spoken to some people that have gone on the "Iron March" and they aren't mentally ill (tbh they are just losers IMO but they are pretty harmless as most of them are NEETs living with their parents).
Not many people really did until the ousters of Brendan Eich and James Damore sort of kickstarted the narrative that tech companies are universally dominated by left-wing activists (despite the strong right-libertarian capitalist streak in startup culture.)
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I too experience kernel panics from connecting my 2017 MBP to a Thunderbolt display through an Apple Thunderbolt adapter. Apparently this issue is more common than I thought.
> I agree with this, at least from Apple's part most effort is clearly done on "application level" and usefulness of Swift outside there seems more exploratory at the moment. Personally I'd like them to start adding higher, rather than lower level functionality, and steer towards scripting.

This here makes sense. I can see Swift becoming more focused on the application-level side at the moment and in the future becoming a way of writing cross-platform GUI apps in Swift, more likely if it is with Qt5 with direct C++ interop with a SwiftUI-like DSL.

As a Rust user, the server-side use-case for Rust is far more developed unlike Swift and would much rather see Rust pushing for low-level development as well.

However, I've seen many attempts for a cross-platform GUI library for Rust for a long time and it has been proven to be difficult in terms of adoption, implementation and maintenance. It would take an enormous amount of effort to cover all three of these difficulties from scratch and using bindgen bindings to wrap and maintain it and I'm afraid for them it would be more trouble than it is worth. But who knows?

I just don't see a mature cross-platform GUI library coming from the Rust ecosystem anytime soon.
I use Cloud9 for many of my Lambdas. Works pretty well but yeah, Cloud9 as an IDE it's very meh.

Also it has broken workflows. They push functions back to Lambda unzipped, so if you're working there and you hit the unzipped limit, there's nothing you can do to push. It will just fail to push back. It's so stupid. You can actually download the inflated function projects but you can't push back after a change. It annoys me so much.

GitLab recently integrated Gitpod natively and that looks pretty solid! It's based on Visual Studio Code + K8s: https://www.gitpod.io/
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Trying to be hyper rational doesn't exuse acting unethically.

Many, me included, believe that for example one innocent execution is too many. But it's such a small percentage! But the existence of capital of punishment increases prosocial behavior! (it doesn't but besides the point)

Nah, ethics still matter.
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TLS won't cloak your IP address nor your browsing history from the VPN provider... so, even if the content is TLS encrypted, your VPN provider has to that metadata (+ more) across all sites you visit while connected to their servers. which they can then turn over to law enforcement on request[1], or leave on an unsecured S3 bucket (or similar) somewhere[2].

So yeah, in short, we shouldn't be recommending the use of third-party VPNs without qualification. There are valid use cases sometimes, but avoiding tracking is very much not one of them.

[1] https://securitygladiators.com/fbi-purevpn/

[2] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/07/20/7-vpns-that-leak...
Yes, they have many products. Which are the biggest?
Well, I suppose the printing press has a way of blocking progress. Some languages did manage to update their orthography more recently though, e.g. Lithuanian.

If you look at the former Soviet Union (CIS), you can see a shift away from Russian Cyrillic, so I suppose given enough political incentive, such changes are in fact possible.
I suspect this is a myth too because desktops get a plain USB keyboard / mouse, maybe a webcam and call it a day. What if I put a TV tuner in there? Hello compatibility lists.

As it happens my Ryzen desktop did have fewer issue but staring with the monitor off makes me have no GUI and I think I also ran into some sleep/suspend issues after an Ubuntu update.

I'm really not keeping track. If you keep your expectations low Ubuntu is quite lovely.
> Sadly, Linux hardware support is still hit and miss

This actually cuts both ways. I ended up dual-booting for AutoCAD on my laptop. It's apparently at an age where AutoCAD still works well, but trackpad drivers don't work correctly in Windows. Because it's only used for AutoCAD though, I'll only ever be using a mouse, rendering the problem (mostly) moot.

This isn't an issue with Ubuntu, as everything from the trackpad, to the funky keyboard keys, just works.
He could be balancing his player stats.
I knew the company was big, but I was specifically curious about their most successful / popular products.
> [Free speech is] a fundamentally optimistic vision: Good ideas win. The better argument will prove persuasive.

Wrong, wrong, wrong! Free speech is pessimistic as heck. It's saying that good ideas don't necessarily win, but if you allow authoritarians to engage in arbitrary censorship then bad ideas will always win. Censoring free speech is not just a "crude authoritarian's" move; it's what all authoritarians do whenever they feel they can get away with it. And censorship won't save you from propaganda either: there's a lot of crude propaganda in every totalitarian regime, happily coexisting with censorship of every other point of view!

Free speech is NOT a problem: it's a very real safeguard against critical threats. If you treat it like one, you haven't seriously engaged with the issue.
>The problem is you end up paying for a crappy monitor

Huh? It's one of the best monitors out there...
Cam-out seems like an ex post facto justification to me. Henry Ford would have picked Robertson if not for the licensing trouble. Robertson's lack of a cam-out 'feature' wasn't the reason.
Microsoft is busy also pretending OnPrem does not exist, They cancelled all of the OnPrem cert programs, and everything is "Cloud First", with Onprem products being treated as second class with price increases to push people to subscriptions
Its backed up to the cloud out of the box.
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Well yeah, but for context the ATP podcast is hosted by Mac/iOS developers, so he was looking at his Mac options specifically
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I kinda disagree with her characterization of the whole "coup attempt" thing, which she presents as "totally fabricated", "without evidence", etc. Which is true - some people sitting in a room wargaming isn't a coup or a plot to take over the country in and of itself. It's not a crime to do that. But the steelman "extremist" (her word) argument is that the publication of the WaPo essay (and Hillary Clinton saying Biden "should not concede under any circumstances", and this essay itself, etc) represents the elite using free speech to establish a Schelling point, or common knowledge, of how to dispute the election. By now anyone with any political awareness knows, and knows that anyone-with-any-political-awareness knows, that the election results won't be known for weeks or months after the election. And that mail-in ballots are going to decide the election. And that Trump is suppressing votes. It's a kind of manufacturing of consent for the intellectual elite who hate Trump. But to them this sort of thing is totally invisible - that kind of speech is good and important for democracy, because it establishes a collective template for coordination-free cooperation to ensure Trump is not reelected. It's the other kind of speech that is bad.
I think that is still poor and confusing English when not talking about a specific person. I notice people do this when trying to make speech more inclusive, and I still struggle with parsing the sentence because of the unnessisary gender being mentioned.

You can just say "they/them/their"!
A word of warning to those building this same contraption: if the solid state relay you're using is the one pictured in this article and you received it together with the cheap PID temperature control shown, it's almost surely a counterfeit. It will work fine, but nowhere near the specced 25A. Here it is used at about half that, but still I would have bought a real SSR, and ditched the clone. They tend to fail in spectacular ways.
Have you read the article? It's a lot more subtle than what can be captured by general statements like that.
Twitter which is at the outer edge of throughput uses Scala and Java. Language choice of just about anything being viable for what most companies consider high throughput computing. For companies spending 8 figures on hardware it’s something to consider, otherwise it’s basically irrelevant IMO.

Hell, highly optimized numerical simulations are still being written in freaking Fortran.
Oceanbird probably is not a CGI only product. If you check the startup behind it started from KTH university then you and follow the related people in there you can see it is just not built but it is a product of so much simulations. I am not sure if it works out but the idea is more robust than one might assume initially.
Ad Fontes is a trusted and reliable service that measures and publishes political skew and accuracy of almost every major news site, and there are plenty of right-wing and far-right news sources if that floats your boat.

https://www.adfontesmedia.com
Old reddit continues to degrade day by day, one day it will be unusable.
> Saving everyone from the consequences of their actions is not a viable nor tenable survival strategy for any population or species.

Yes it is.

Out of curiosity, when you say things like "survival strategy for species," between which sentient species of human level complexity are you comparing? I'm only aware of one so I'm really surprised to find someone speaking so confidently on what works and doesn't work for the survival of sentient species.
In the constitution you have the right to a public trial. It is an easy argument that your appeal is part of your trial even if you are not there yourself.
I can see why a writer for the NYT would find it palatable to call for limitations on free speech, since her speech would not end up being censored.
While I think we all know about Tesla's quality issues, I think there's also an issue of people not realizing exactly what they are buying, so they treated that first seven days like a long test drive.
Written by the verge lol. Thats going to be a hard pass for me.
They're non-standard parts so may need non-standard connectors and mountings.
Not in EU they didnt https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...

>14 day cooling off period

>In the EU you have the right to return purchases made online or through other types of distance selling, such as by phone, mail order or from a door-to-door salesperson, within 14 days for a full refund. You can do so for any reason – even if you simply changed your mind.
Thank you! One day I hope to expand beyond the US Amazon!
The downside to the Arch method of deleting old kernels is that it also deletes modules. So, if you install a kernel update without rebooting, then insert a USB device that needs to load a module it just silently wont work.
Well, all good things... I kept wanting to try Fedora or some other major distro but I'm too used to Ubuntu. Maybe plain Debian is the future?
Or they realize they have a business model where people are willing to fork over serious money to test drive a Tesla for a week.
Just paid off a large chunk of mortgage recently. Monthly payments are now under $500 a month.

It possibly would have been better long term to invest it but the peace of mind a low monthly payment brings is really nice.

If I can gather another largish chunk of money I’ll definitely be looking to get rid of the mortgage completely.

While it might not have been the best long term move you never know what the future will bring and also I think having that feeling of freedom right now counts for a lot too.
The original text and the 14th amendment both excluded untaxed indians from the apportionment for the house of representatives.

So, they could ask to be counted, but there is no mandate to count them.
Trans people can be women as well, so saying "Women can be managers as well" does not exclude trans people because female-identifiying trans people are still "women".

It's not totally inclusive of people who identify outside of the binary genders, but saying "women can be mangers" does not exclude men or people who don't identify as either. I hope my point still remains though that using "they" as a gender neutral pronoun is a perfectly easy way to be inclusive.

> your heteronormative take on the world

I mean i am a (cis) gay male, so I don't think I have a heteronormative take on the world, but you do you.

(acknowledging this comment seems to be puposefully trolly, like a "false flag" troll)
Some corvids can learn how to speak but I haven’t heard whether they understand the words. With parrots there’s evidence that some species learn meanings of the words they use.
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