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> This is already an issue on platforms like Twitch. All Twitch streamers are required by the Twitch ToS to moderate their chats and the streamers face bans if they fail to do so.

Currently twitch is not held legally responsible if the streamers fail to follow ToS due to Section 230. If Section 230 was dropped however asking the streamers to moderate would not protect them from legal consequences.

I do not see how twitch's current rules would provide them legal protection or provide a solution for moderation of one to many realtime communication if Section 230 was dropped.

Maybe you have some assumptions about how new laws would be put in place post Section 230 that make this work?

> This is where I feel everyone here is taking things too far. You don't lose communication - you become responsible for the communication you allow to be made pubic.

It increases the barrier to entry so many, if not most, forms of one to many real time communication would have to be discontinued due to lack of the ability to moderate in real time. Hence they would be lost along with the value they generate.
High-quality software which interacts with real transactional SQL databases is readily available, free, and easy to use. Building an inferior solution yourself, like a CSV-based database, doesn't make your product any better. (If anything, it will probably make it worse.)
There are speech controls everywhere except on your own private website.

The MSM press, despite being narrative driven has tons of controls, they hold each other accountable in ways, they generally stay in the domain of facts.

Social Media has always been censored, if you try to attack people or incite violence on Twitter, you'd get banned 10 years ago, nothing new about that.

YouTube has been dropping channels for a long time now, mostly anything that upsets advertisers etc..

The issue isn't so much 'Free Speech' or 'Censorship' in the classical sense - it would be if web sites were being taken down, or, if the White House for example forbade MSM to talk about certain issues, or worse, took control over MSM outlets.

It's more subtle than that.
I don't doubt you, but it's surprising that there's really that much value / inefficiency laying around that many "medium sized" industrial enterprise can justify spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars a year just to collect an insane amount of sensor data (and presumably take some action based on that). How big is medium sized and what kind of industries?
Yeah this stuck out to me as well. To be honest if they ARE using the same creds in prod as they are in dev, this is the first thing they should fix because it would have easily prevented the whole mess.

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and suggest that it wasn't the case and that it's unlikely that a dev or OPs person was tunnelling through a bastion of some kind to run the script.

If they pulled their credentials from a store and populated the config object that way, it's very possible someone actually loaded the production credentials by mistake into the development secrets file. The CI/pipeline system has permissions/network access to deploy to any environment, hence how it ran the script to drop the table.

I'm purely speculating another alternative to the much worse case of the tunnelling scenario outline.
This is a very polarizing topic in the field of medicine, especially when it comes to independent practice of midlevel providers. I’d just point out that NPs have a very aggressive national organization that promotes such studies, and the issue of equivalent patient outcomes is certainly not yet decided. There are significant questions about the study design, namely that midlevel providers are seeing less complex and critical patients, while physicians take on cases where their more advanced and thorough knowledge is needed (and outcomes tend to be poorer due to the patient condition, not the care provided).

This is well and good, aside from potentially misrepresenting the research - midlevels are supposed to handle what they can and escalate what they’re unable to handle to a supervising physician.

There is similar research that shows NPs and PAs order more unnecessary diagnostic tests like labs and imaging, and are more likely to prescribe antibiotics and narcotics when it isn’t indicated.
> it is an insult to assume that they are some weak-minded fools who can be easily swayed by a hostile foreign government.

Just because some might consider it an insult does not mean it may not be true as well.
Wind turbine ships can sail directly into the wind. There's no need to anchor or store energy — you can just power the propeller directly from the turbine.
I'm aware of that.
Andronico's on Irving St in SF sells Amish butter in a giant roll. I've never tried it though.
There is internal resistance to new products that compete with the main product offering. A startup with only one product does not have this barrier. You can see the same effect with car manufacturers who were slow to introduce electric cars while Tesla cornered the market.
If you see a babylon bee article without context you may not realize. Arguably, part of the fun of satire is when people only figure it out halfway through. But if someone is only scanning headlines, they may never get that far. So I can see facebook wanting to do something about it.
In the US, salted butter and unsalted butter are both sold in stores. In general, you eat the salted butter directly, and you might use either salted or unsalted butter in cooking.

The only reason we use unsalted butter is if a recipe specifically calls for it. But it's widely available.
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Where I live slingshots with armrests are forbidden(now). If you are cought with one it's a violation of current weapons laws, and you'll get fined and a record.

Funny thing is, crossbows and bows in general are not :)
Maybe because they are larger and difficult to carry concealed.

Had much fun with a slingshot(without arm rest) as a kid, using steel balls out of old ball bearings and glass marbles at distances up to about 50 meters with very surprising results against brick and concrete walls. Made large parts of them simply chip off, or deep dents into trash bins, traffic signs, and similar things.
We use it for "AI" classes (as in literally the class with this title, as opposed to machine learning and other narrower jargon). I think most everyone does.

The class itself is kind of a spork though, not really useful when you have classes for the more modern topics.
That means almost/approximately equal to.
Funny how social media went from being the "great democratizer" when Obama won, to "disinformation" when Trump won.
I think that exceptionalism rote taught explains a lot of America's inherent conservatism - why change if you're already the best?
I would also like to know this. This is exactly the kind of AI-assisted stuff I want to do, but no matter what I try, I just can't seem to get any information about how to actually get access.
If you built good systems that have reliable backups or rollback mechanisms, dev should be able to have a beer on a friday and do a deployment without worrying about the fire they just caused.

I'd rather a culture where people admit to their mistakes than one where they try hide or get whipped for owning up to them.

We're people after all and some of us like a glass of wine and unwind while still performing our duties as engineers. After all, it's not like we're in charge of life support or critical systems which absolutely cannot fail.
Greatness isn't a requirement for acronyms, only long unwieldy titles. The cryptic string of letters being instantly recognizable among geeks, on the other hand...
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Companies tend to get really good at backups after events like this.
Ever thought of raising your rates? You're losing money in nominal dollars over a long time period.

https://www.successfulindependentconsulting.com/blog/how-and...
It writes an invalid instruction at this location. What ever this instruction, it just has to be invalid.

On x86 at least, it is a valid instruction. INT3, or CC in hex. There are also the debug registers which implement breakpoints without modifying any code, although it's limited to a maximum of 4 at once.

Characterising gdb as a "C debugger" is quite appropriate --- try to debug the Asm directly with it is an excruciating experience.
I mean, it's "outside" in a very loose sense. There's an evenly-illuminated backlight to identify the suckers in the first place, which can act as a backstop for the high-power beam. It's almost as contained as a desktop laser cutter, and a lot less power. (Or at least shorter shots, anyway.) It's not like you're firing beams into the sky or across the street or something.
It's not an insult, the other way around, it's naive to think that the general population acts intelligently with respect to information available to them on an ad-hoc basis.

All nations media outlets are absolutely protected and controlled industries for this very reason.

Information can be wrong, totally misrepresented, hyperbolic, it can reach large numbers of individuals wherein contrasting information cannot.

The objective of a 'foreign actor' is not to 'inform' citizens, it's the opposite - it's to use 'information' possibly 'truthy' to manipulate elections towards their desired outcomes.

If a foreign state wants to release 'important information' to 'inform' citizens, then it can be released with enough time for that to be vetted, digested and disseminated properly.

More than 1/2 of the vote is based on emotional decision making around specific subjects, were the media open to influence by other parties, it would be possible to control electoral outcomes when margins are +/- just a few points, as so many elections are these days.

If Putin is behind the 'Hunter Biden leaks' - that's fine, the truth is the truth, but not 10 days before an election it isn't.
Oh cool! So you would've been okay with labeling abolitionism as hate speech? What about miscegenation?

In every era in history, people have always thought that "our era has finally got it right, we're not like those heartless savages of the past generations and we're not like those degenerates in the next generation".
Thanks, here's an example I found:

var a, b, c;

...
a = b.fooBar(1, 2);
c = a.fooBarBaz(1, 2, a);

vs

|a b c|
...
a := b foo:1 bar:2.
c := a foo:1 bar:2 baz:a.
...

From: https://live.exept.de/doc/online/english/programming/stForJa...

The Smalltalk syntax is hard for me to parse, but it's probably just a familiarity thing. I remember when I first learned Swift I wasn't fond of not ending lines with semicolons. Now I dislike having to type them in languages where they're required.
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It sounds like a person who doesnt want a lowball offer, and people who present lowball offers.

No different to selling secondhand cars, lowballers annoy everybody.
Lying to defraud someone is illegal because they don't have full consent, but lying to make someone misvote is not because...they do have full consent. I don't follow.

If you lie to me and I end up signing a contract that benefits you vs. if you lie to me and I end up signing a ballot that benefits you. Where's the difference?

I'm not going to touch this analogy, it's in bad taste and doesn't elucidate anything.
Its hard to organically grow a product on its own without network effect.
If you think you are better off just working on product then consider affiliates. They will do this thing for you. You will have to price your product accordingly to include their commission. But its an easier path to start with. Over time you should focus on developing your own brand and presence in the market.
> I think the problem is the addition of "opinionated" content media outlets publish to generate outrage. E.g. IMO the NYT is the gold standard of journalism but a lot of their opinion pieces are not even fit to print

A lot of their journalism isn’t that great anymore either. (In the last 3-5 years, there has been a massive upheaval in the ranks as revenues have declined and experienced journalists have left.)

E.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/nyt-1619-project-...
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I mean, there are superficial articles referencing the pandemic all of the time despite with some inappropriate decline in mainstream news. There is nothing (besides HN?) that seems to be tracking the research closely.
Sweden doesn't contradict anything. Search for the news right now and you will see their cases are increasing and they're dealing with trying to control it.

Really, the only hysteria there is, is from people like you projecting it.

Wearing a mask and socially distancing is rational.
If you are okay with using markdown, I have a post on how to use pandoc to generate pdf/epub [0]

I also include links at the end for other flows like Jupyter Book, Asciidoctor, etc. Markdeep [1] might suit you better for a simple solution that allows diagrams, equations, etc.

[0] https://learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/

[1] https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
I'd love to have a way to take a `Date` object and set it as the value of a `datetime-local` input. Sure feels like that should be straightforward to do, without requiring any weird conversions like it does.
We use only unsalted butter to reduce sodium - everything else already has to much salt in it.
Is all your work same-day deadline? If not, you can at least plan some part of your day for your longer-term work. Start somewhere.

Even if all your work is same-day, look at whether it can be sorted in some way.

If it can’t be sorted, box in some time to work on how to stop the firefighting. :)
I misread that, so I’ll modify my statement. “If we fact check everything people might misinterpret we might as well throw in the towel”.
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Must. Resist. Rat-hole.

I have mused about a related question since I got my first computer eons ago. It had only a machine code monitor (yes, a though start to learning what a computer was). It does seem some kind of Forth might have been the good first step on the path to high-level languages (like https://github.com/uho/preForth) but it's sure not the only way.
But potentially within the budget of a business with a large base of proven customers.

While annoying technically, for early stage startups, performance problems caused by an overly large number of users are almost always a good problem to have and are a far rarer sight than startups that have over-architected their technical solution without the concomitant proven actual users.
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I don't believe having a massive repo with backups would be the ideal solution. Couldn't you just upload the backup to an s3 bucket instead?
> paying a third party to handle moderation (and indemnify/insure me against legal liability).

For any criminal material that makes it through the 3rd party moderation the publisher will be criminal liable. The third party can pay for the publishers lawyer to defend the publisher in court, but if the publisher is found guilty they will be the one in jail not the third party moderation service.

Ensuring the above does not happen is in part why Section 230 was put in place, at least to my understanding.

Your argument here does not seem to consider criminal liability does that change your outlook or was it already incorporated in your viewpoint somehow?
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People also use this method to finish work in fewer hours and make sure they spend time on important things.
All these cries about democracy, and I haven't seen any single core structural change. Even the most hated country on HackerNews, Hungary, whose leader got the emergency power gave it back. Then we have Andrew Cuomo, who still has way more power than most head of states.
What issues did you have debugging assembly? I've done it somewhat, and it SEEMS to work ok.
Can you provide some examples of the kinds of sensors you're talking about?
I've lived in Japan for 15yrs. I never considered this strange. I've seen similar butter dishes in the USA. I mean googling "butter dish" one of the first hits is this

https://www.amazon.com/Creuset-Heritage-Stoneware-Butter-Whi...

Here's another

https://www.amazon.com/Sweese-318-101-Butter-Keeper-Handle/d...
Interesting approach, however it would need a mastermind to actually give a more convoluted explanation of the relatively simple idea behind their approach. You essentially have to read the entire thing to get the picture, while one sentence may suffice. I.e:

Building tons of queries with some randomized approach and using a query mapping strategy to re-write them in a way that can't be optimized. Run both queries and see if they differ.
That's a fair point. However, stating the case for my argument, gelatin is a by-product and not necessarily a by-product of beef which is well-known for being a big contributor of C02 emissions, but other sources like chicken. From my understanding, anything that provides collagen can provide a basis for gelatin. To reach a well thought out conclusion dictates a full analysis, my gut feel is just that gelatin could provide a more environmentally beneficial solution.
Fox News isn’t designed to be even handed. “Fair and Balanced” is an inside joke. It’s designed to bring balance to a media industry that skews heavily left by offering the countervailing view on issues. (I do agree it’s gone downhill since Ailes left. Megyn Kelly has said as much.)

To put it differently: you cannot understand what’s going on in the world just reading the NYT and watching CNN, especially in the Trump era. Those outlets may oftentimes be closer to the truth in their conclusions, but they’ll completely strip context and nuance from issues in favor of preferred narrative. CNN will happily air a video with buildings burning in the background and “mostly peaceful protests” in the chyron: https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-panned-for-on-air-graphic-... https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/only-some-kinds-of-pro....

One thing that’s remarkable is that in the last 6 months, I’ve had Democrats confide to me that they’re harboring skepticism of the media because they noticed how much the media downplayed the violence of what was happening in their cities.
i have friends like this. if I'd asked. would you propose we ban cars? they'd just be even angrier. I've largely given up.
SF is an aberration because relocated high-income earners and rich people move in and raise prices because they out-compete for limited resources by throwing money around (out-bidding real estate) and/or sellers raising prices knowing the upper-crust will still pay them.

SF also is a problem for anyone not making more than $150k/year because it's a magical wonderland where everyone wants to live there, and so they're willing to irrationally sacrifice their financial futures to hang-on to something they can't afford, i.e., paying 50%+ income in rent, unable to contribute 10% to savings, and other forms of financial suicide.

How lower income people make it in SF, even with rent controls, seems like an unsustainable proposition.

I think a better way of measuring of microeconomic affordability is a reasonable budgeted cost-of-living for one person per month in a median housing situation in relation to their potential income. In other words, or thought of another way, the ratio of cost-of-living to income in local nominal dollars.
The pandemic is the match, but I’m going to blame the pile of kerosene soaked rags.
Just curious, how popular are butter croissants in Japan?
What? I thought that was just the opposite. The advantage of serverless is that I pay AWS to make backups so I don't have to. I mean under time pressure if it do it myself I'll skip making backups, setting permissions perfectly, and making sure I can actually restore those backups. If I go with a microservice, the whole point is they already do those things for me. No?
I didn’t realise we were here to discuss a solution (universal basic income). I am here to point out institutional racism and leftist hypocrisy.
Jocelyn Ireson-Paine (JIP) et al developed software years ago that converts spreadsheets to language and vice versa, so you can write in code and then generate a corresponding spreadsheet. This two-way capability aids, among other things, in debugging spreadsheets. JIP is in euSPRIG (see http://eusprig.org/best-practice.htm ). Here are some links:

http://j-paine.org/eusprig2005.html

https://www.i-nth.com/tag/jocelyn-paine

http://www.j-paine.org
In our factory we use temperature/humidity sensors, electricity meters, air pressure, statuses from various machines... We don't even have that many sensors and we normally poll every 5 seconds. But when the data processing stops for some reason, the backlog queue starts growing FAST.
The seroprevalence study was indeed awful, but this isn't so remarkable on its own. Bad science gets published all the time.

The emails suggesting a foregone conclusion make Ioannidis look even worse.

Nonetheless, the work stands on its own and should be evaluated as such. You would be forgiven for going in with the prior that Ioannidis has a poor track record in this area - but your prior alone is not enough to dismiss the work.
Yes I had a very similar feeling.

My guess as to how Elon Musk can run the two companies at once is that it's not difficult, and therefore, he doesn't do very much. But if anyone has more information on what, precisely, these jobs consist of. I'd love to hear about it.

The funny part about "working 100 hours a week and still having time to tweet" just sounds like a living death to me.

One thing I have learned about compulsive/addictive behaviour on that scale is that, at some point, the amount of time spent doing something is little more than a reflection of one's inability to derive enjoyment or satisfaction from it any more.

If this were just one sad man's personal problem then I might say "more power to you", but since our entire society is oriented around maintaining the lives of these billionaires, I do wonder whether the entire planet is sacrificing itself for the enjoyment of people who are constitutionally unable to experience enjoyment. And whether that is a planetary-scale human dysfunction.
In a place like Uganda, an empowered strongman is a greater threat than the pandemic itself. In fact, worldwide, actual loss of life seems like one of the least of the threats emerging from the pandemic.
Those shields really creep me out when you see the military grade equipment popping up around them.
Sounds like you need to move more processing and storage to the edge.
XPS line is plagued by constant quality control issues that Dell doesn't fix year after year, generation after generation. With XPS 15 look up the expanding/exploding battery issue, thermal throttling etc. Mine (XPS 15 9550) also had issues with the hinge, the power cable, having to fight dell to get an adapter to fit the second drive which they stated stated it supports, and intense fan noise then especially after the Meltdown mitigations were applied I gave up on it completely.

Their strength is in quality peripherals, ie screen etc, but their weakness is garbage quality control and it's so overpriced for that.

If you can, avoid XPS! If you can't well .. purchase extended warranty with the on-site option, you're gonna need it ..
I would imagine for a $1000 item, it wouldn't be unreasonable to have a designer try to find a way to be more rugged and still not ugly -- see for example, IBM thinkpads, though they are perhaps the other extreme
of course the problem is there are no good counter examples?
except maybe japan and south korea? maybe thailand?
and they're not nearly as successful at containing covid19 as china and vietnam.
of course there are small countries that have done it too.. nz, sg..
yes taiwan is somewhere in the middle of that.
but there's really nothing else quite like china and vietnam?