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> The bill would be more palatable to me if they simply dropped the immunity, without any certification process. But then demonstrating bias would require winning civil lawsuits, which requires demonstrating damage suffered by the bias and also convincing 12 members of the jury in a unanimous vote... which is unlikely to happen, I think.

No. Killing 230 entirely would allow Twitter and Facebook to be as politically biased as they want.

However, if one of their users libels you, then you could sue Facebook in addition to that user.

And if any Facebook user posts child porn, even for a short period of time, relevant parties at Facebook could face criminal charges for distribution.

You couldn't sue Facebook for being politically biased, but Facebook would be responsible for actual crimes that its users commit.

Hawley's bill says "you won't be responsible for the illegal stuff your users do (i.e., you get 230 protections), but only as long as you keep my political appointees happy."
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Tell him to do the work if he's interested in all the details.
10-21 seconds would be the shortest time I spend on social media in one session.
There are 2.3 million people incarcerated in America. 5000, or 0.2% of them, died in jail. A 99.8% chance of not dying in jail for those 2.3 million people is thus indicative of a society with high degree of civilization. Fyodor would call our jails health spas compared to what existed in Russia during his lifetime between 1821 and 1881.
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That is not how that works.
I am at 10m+, keep in mind it isn't 1:1 with requests. Things like GET read only video metadata is one request, but if you are uploading a video, it might count as more out of your quota.

You are expected to be well behaved though. You can also lose your quota or API access for severe abuse, like using API to mass upload spam.
That's not what the article you linked says. It says the WHO includes the names of various ailments and diseases under traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in its International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD). That's the not the same as recommending the use of TCM.
> Saving everyone from the consequences of their actions is not a viable nor tenable survival strategy for any population or species.

If this is what we were doing, we wouldn't be arresting junkies for being junkies. This is a retroactive justification for cruelty.
Rocks are fine for throwing at targets, which behavior certainly dates back much further, but you can't play polo with them. (I found TFA's blithe dismissal of the polo mallets found at the same cemetery unconvincing.)
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Oh wow that is amazing

I also get mild tinnitus for the last 6 or so years due to earwax (once it got completely blocked and I had to go to the doctor to have them irrigate it back out).

I don't use cotton or any scraping right now, but I do use the same stuff the doctor used to irrigate it every once in awhile, to middling effect.

Maybe I'll try out that ear scope thing.
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Just remember, you are not a startup when you order business cards and get an EIN, you are a startup when you have paying customers
I would.... but you also keep redirecting me to /firefox.html. Thus, I can't look at the site (on my phone) to be able _see_ the code.
Much as I think its loose interpretation has a lot to do with the success of major internet hubs, it has become clear that unlimited liability for selective publishers is not a sustainable model for American public life.

We can not sustain a system where a major paper and the U.S. Press Secretary is censored by corporations entrusted with a significant portion of the public square, but that corporation simultaneously has no liability for the things which they, by their non-interference, must be endorsing.
time dilation formula looks like 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2). For v = 1.3 m/s, c=3e8, it means if I travel across my room for 1s at 1.3 m/s, to an inertial observer the amount of time that has passed was actually 1.0000000000000000093889s.

.0000000000000000093889s = 9389 zeptoseconds, and this clock can measure time in mere hundreds of zeptoseconds.
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While yes, we're living through a pandemic. Nobody is suggesting these things should/can happen during the pandemic. People need to decouple WFH and pandemic thinking though.

Also, I think we should fully support what's suitable for people. I want to work remotely, but I want you to be able to work the way to prefer as well.
With Letsencrypt etc, isn't it still true that everyone who can BGP hijack traffic can get a TLS cert for that domain?

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/using-bgp-to-acquire-bog...
> Section 230 should be revoked immediately

No, instead it should be expanded to every publication.
I genuinely don’t mind if the internet is fundamentally reset. I am completely unconvinced that Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and other such services are net benefit for humanity. Being able to yell at each other in giant anonymous forums is not something that I think worth protecting. Perhaps we should go back to peer to peer communication.

So to those who keep saying “the internet as we know it as at stake”, I say... so what? Maybe we got it wrong.
The assumption they make is that first choice is random. How can they be sure it's not some kind of innate preference?
To me this seems to fall into an age-old flaw of presuming rationality means lack of wonderment.

There's no need to invoke the supernatural to feel wonder. While, sure, there are things a religious person feel wonder over that I as an atheist won't, there is so much to be excited about in knowledge and rationality itself. But also, knowing the sun is "just" a fairly unremarkable star does not mean being unable to appreciate the feelings a sunset brings, either.

Le Corbusier is a poor example to attempt to push this idea of rationality as cold, because you find that kind of worship of austerity and purity all over religious history too, and Corbusier faced rejection from a whole lot of people you might expect would embrace the austerity of his ideas (most notably, perhaps, Stalin, who opted for a far more conservative approach full of emotionally driven symbolism for both his changes to Moscow and e.g. the (never finished) Palace of the Soviets).
The ICO has quite a bit of power, they're just run incompetently.

I don't think there's a single person in the realm of data protection (or information rights in general, as the ICO is the regulator for Freedom of Information laws and Environmental Information Regulations as well) who thinks Denham has done a good job.
To chime in (I'm not the original commenter you're replying to), in theory someone could develop an Internet-connected gadget, break into your car without being detected, plug said gadget in, and then drive you into a wall or off a cliff, maybe that's what the grandfather poster is worried about.

But in reality, no one's develop that sort of tech, and if a baddie wants to kidnap or kill, they'd probably spend their resources somewhere rather than hacking such a tool.
> customer orientation

Is this what they mean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_and_LGBT_people
> 5000, or 0.2% of them, died in jail.

No, 5000 of them died in pre-trial detention. A lot more died in jail (which is a much larger set that includes most pretrial detention and a lot of other incarceration), and an even larger number died while incarcerated (an even larger set that is a superset of both of the previous ones.)
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> I don't think it would be world ending to get rid of Section 230

If you're running a start up, how would you feel knowing that if a user uploaded illegal content to your servers, you could be raided in the middle of the night and imprisoned for it?

Only those with billions of dollars to throw at moderation would be able to comply with the law. Everyone else would need to block user content by necessity, or risk having their lives ruined by malicious users.

The net result is that hosting free speech on the internet would be too risky for anyone other than giant corporations. The liability to host users' speech would be far too high for anyone else.
The number of satellites has nothing to do with my hard the inter satellite links are. higher bandwidth links are much more expensive and harder to get right (harder meaning never been done at those rates). It's fine that you are in the camp of anything as possible, but that doesn't mean that it really is.
You should probably take a look at the video before you dismiss it in the way you have - based on the source rather than the content.

He is a nursing teacher and his videos basically take up to date research and news on covid as he explains it to a non technical audience. Personally I rally appreciate that he takes the time filter out what appears to be interesting / important and presents it in a way that is easy for the general public to understand.

If you still can't be bothered to do that then the paper he is discussing is here (I assume that a peer reviewed paper is up to your high standards) but you will be missing out on a lot of information about dosages that John adds: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.106144

>I said in February, I will say it again

Repetition doesn't make your argument any more valid.
That account seems to post news stories about the leaks, which is not a violation of the guidelines. The group that published the leaks had their account banned and links to their site blocked.
Hell if I know, but you send a 0 payload UDP, and it sends a 64k payload UDP back, IP fragmented obviously. Oh, and their firewall helpfully blocks sending the first fragment... cause that's helpful.
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> My partner uses MS teams on a beater of a windows laptop with at most 4GB of ram and it performs substantially better.

So not an electron issue, an engineering issue. That's I think at the root of all these "electron is bad" comments... poorly engineered code is slow. It will be slow if it's C++ or JS or Perl. But well engineered code is fast. And it can be fast in C++ or JS or Perl.
I think it's a form of hysteresis. There's probably an evolutionary advantage to making a choice and sticking with it, if there isn't a huge advantage to one or the other, than to bouncing back and forth uncertainly. It saves time.
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You mean people have brought it up before? I wonder why?
Looking at that graph, there is way too much scatter / too little data in order to plot clean exponential fits like that. A linear model would likrly fit the data just as good. At least throw on some bands indicating uncertainty in the fit.
Not far off. IIRC, my freshman year history course (at a high-achieving school, no less) covered world history from the agricultural revolution until 1500 CE. That's ~14000 years (call it 4000 of knowable history). There's not a lot of time for anything other than "Don't forget, there were lots of other extraordinarily successful civilizations we know about that were less influential on our intellectual forebears".
I'm assuming you're doing something to correct this situation if you're this "disappointed in us" for our collective inaction. So, what have you done?
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False. It says right in the article that they also include treatments and medicines. Does it do that for Ayurveda and other traditional treatments? Why not? I guess Nature is worried for an irrational reason?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06782-7

Please don’t twist yourself batting for this nonsense.
I am full stack engineer at a medium company. This week I wrote few lines of code. I am solving business problems and that interests me. I am starting a business to do just that. Go into a company with outdated software, deliver some custom solutions for them or help them migrate to a new software. Explain possibilities and improve efficiency of their workers. Nothing ground breaking really, many smaller or medium companies do not have the staff to help them navigate all the options. Plus, I'm not scared of reading an app where most of the code is in main and applying basic programming principles to improve and move it to a newer language/framework. lol.

There is a lot of odd jobs that you can do as a CS major. As programmers often can solve inefficiency if they can study a process.
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If you're going to count every incarcerated person, why not count every person in the world? There aren't 2.3 million people in jail.

> Fyodor would call our jails health spas compared to what existed in Russia during his lifetime between 1821 and 1881.

I absolutely guarantee that Russia had an order of magnitude lower proportion of incarcerated people than the US. We have a higher percentage of people in prison than any other nation on earth, double our nearest competitor.
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That's not eugenics. It's one of those short-sighted "utilitarian" views that you'd usually see on LessWrong or something.

It's not eugenics though.
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Sure, that might work for simple questions. But sometimes you really need to ask a nuanced question, and then what?
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The answer to that is Knime. Not as polished, but still way better than Excel.
There are three distinct series of data (indicated by color) there.

Looking at each individually I have to disagree. They look like perfectly kosher (and in fact good) exponential fits. Bands would still be nice though.
> Please explain on what basis you are assigning a paper "expert consensus" ?

The source is for the "if not majority" part of that sentence. The other part is just me making an admittedly unsubstantiated claim.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/239-experts-with-o...

> I know somehow on HN linking to a paper is seen as a mic-drop, but that is not the case in the real world.

Sure, but this is HN. You often have to source stuff just to not get downvoted.
I saw the AppsCode example too. I guess you can just dual or triple or ... license it. So I guess it is neither union nor intersection of licenses, but variants of licenses.
I don't use it, I just dont want them to have legal exemptions other publishers don't get while they control what information people are or aren't allowed to see.
A license is a written document, so like any other document, it is protected by copyright law. See e.g. https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/55720/is-it-legal-to... and https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4543/is-the-m...
I want to believe you’re joking about a service I last installed during the Clinton administration - and didn’t make public even then - but we never get a break on that.

Right behind this, I’ll put cloud providers who helpfully put default 0.0.0.0/0 rules in their firewalls.
> Truvada costs more than the median us salary.

While your points about the obscene cost of Truvada are spot on, your point about US incomes is not.

For 2019 the median US income was $36,000 [1] (not ~$20,000). The median US full-time income was around $52,000 [2]. The median family income was $86,011 [3] and the median household income was $68,703 [4].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

[2] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEFAINUSA672N

[4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
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CTEs effectively act as optimisation barriers; up to loading all the rows, there is essentially no push down of conditions into the CTE. This is contrasted with a sub query that will respect pushed down conditions. That being said, a CTE may be beneficial if it produces a small number of rows that are used a lot, or if you're simply using it for readability purposes.
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Unbelievable scenery and world-class recreation have nothing to do with being a "city with a large population." In fact, the presence of a large population center usually makes these things worse.
I’ve been on Doxy and it nuked what I had, and as a patient I’d be extremely nervous about detoxifying the badass chemical that’s supposed to kill the thing that was killing me. The side effects weren’t bad enough for me to want to make it less potent. Also worth noting that it sounds like it wouldn’t work for something diffuse like B cell non-hodgkins lymphoma.

“Here’s how Shasqi’s treatment works: Say a patient has a tumor in her breast. The first step is to inject a biopolymer—naturally occurring molecules—into the tumor that essentially function as a magnet. Next, the patient will receive a modified version of the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin, which has been chemically “switched off” so that it’s about 80 times less toxic. But once the drug gets to the tumor site, the biopolymer “magnet” pulls the drug in, causing a chemical reaction that switches the drug on to its full effect. The end result? Higher doses with fewer side effects (or at least that’s what Shasqi is hoping the clinical trial will bear out.)“
It seems the system only works when the driver activates the cruise control, which hopefully Honda has programmed correctly: i.e. if cruise control is deactivated, steering inputs from the CAN-bus will be ignored.

So the driver can still regain control from a hacked device by deactivating cruise control, which s/he can do by moving the steering wheel or pressing one of the pedals.
VRML made me feel nostalgic.
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Not OP, and I don't have time (hah) to do the calculation but a rough rule of thumb is that if you take a "normal size" of a quantity (mass, speed, etc) then relativistic effects become measurable when you scale it by c^2, ie about 10^17. So e.g. We have had clocks for a while that are accurate to a part in 10^18, so they can measure time dilation at walking speed. Or detect gravitational time dilation when you lift something (the clock!) up one meter in the earths gravitational field.

Yet another way of saying how amazing this new result is: A second is much "closer" to the age of the universe than it is to a zeptosecond.
The VoIP industry is full of people who came from a SS7/PSTN/Telco background and have no real clue about network security and Linux/BSD platform system security.
> It's all a matter of how wrong you want to be, and what information you want to use for deduction. If you see a humanoid approaching you, do you start with "that is a human (99.99% certainty)" or "that is a man or woman (98% certainty)"? I can see the use in the latter, but only here when quantified and compared to more generic alternatives.

Generalization is one of the main mechanisms making the communication (language) work. Otherwise one should probably treat every human as an individual, similarly to the Duns Scotus and his haecceity concept.

It's somehow related to the concept of overfitting, you acknowledge existence of the outliers but at the same time you may want to generalize them for the sake of the better generalization...

> On personal attacks: I've only lost karma in this thread and I'm going to continue losing it; I'm not sure by what means you could imagine that I'm effectively winning.

Who cares about karma. What's important is that your comments may encourage some readers to think ;)
I’m with you. I think we would all be better off without forums for people to anonymously yell at each other.

If Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit all disappeared tomorrow it would be an enormous win for American citizens. The path to unification and healing does not run through big tech.

And yes, I understand that it would also be the end of HN. I accept that.
Just an addendum - when I said Railroad Tycoon I meant Transport Tycoon - I was getting the two mixed up.

And no problem :)
I was explaining Question 1 to my girlfriend the other day, by way of showing her why it's a more important vote for me than the Presidential race (Massachusetts is going to Biden anyway).
I suppose my life checks most of those boxes.

- I attended TJ; when my dad got job-offers out-of-town the fact that my parents felt that I would need to attend a private school to get similar education quality was factored into budget decisions.

- My dad and my aunt got their PhDs from GMU

- My dad worked for MITRE

- My aunt works for SAIC

- I would have stayed there if I got even a single job offer (my college GPA was poor, and that immediately disqualified me from most positions; the telecom company I interned at was a casualty of the dot-com bust).

What I'd like to dig more into is what caused so many telecom companies to end up in that area (maybe the large amount of low-productivity farm-land waiting t be turned into data centers?). It was a telecom company in Herndon, not MITRE that was my dad's first job in the area, and the reason why my family originally moved there.
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Hi,

I have a new startup where we typically sell our software to small businesses.

However, today, a large enterprise customer (950+ seats) reached out, and is interesting in a quote, with a volume discount.

I've been trying to find some guides or something that will teach us how to price this customer. What's a typical discount for a large enterprise client like (10%? 50%?)

Thank you!
> most of the "evidence" presented is actually modeling

If the model evidence-based, falsifiable, and tested, applying modeling to a set of conditions is a way of deriving evidence-based conclusions about the likely outcome of those conditions.
It's actually the 8th largest, not 4th largest.
Is the engineering manager expect to proactively find work for their team? Are they responsible to keep the work pipeline full for the next upcoming cycles?
...no? I was just clarifying what was meant by hacking.
In what world does any company use open source software to save money??

What is the alternative? Develop everything yourself in-house? That's not just expensive, it's dumb, because you'll get worse/less reliable software in general.
I want everyone else on auto-updates, but refuse to allow them myself, for exactly the reasons you specify.

A tragedy of the walled-gardens.
It is a bit hyperbolic but I wrote "there are like no" which means "kinda" right?

Sure I get it. Autoupdates are fine if used wisely and I am not dogmatic really it is more that I am bitter. However a simple prompt just makes ones life so much easier so that I know why something breaks.

I think Steams delayed updates as default are to decrease bandwidth during covid lockdowns?
Calling my position eugenicist is a straw-man. I am not advocating for artificially selective evolutionary pressure, but rather am pointing out that allowing natural selection to take its course is a rational position to hold, even moreso in the face of the accumulating consequences of Malthusian crisis. Humanity's battle is not with Darwin, it's with Fermi.