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Well, it's an election year, unfortunately.
Low time to publish has its place, but not if it's presented as truth.
>...have you been to Harvard’s campus? There are many, many Asian students there. In fact, nearly one in five students at Harvard are of Asian descent. The idea that elite schools are purposely excluding Asians is absurd on its face....

So, as long as you see some people of a given race and it meets some arbitrary % in your mind, that's enough, is that the argument you're making? No discrimination going on then?

This level of lack of critical thinking here is astounding, and it's sad (actually scary) that opinions like this might guide admissions policies.
Protip: the laptop never existed
Their page loads but they cannot access their account to make new tweets until they delete that post.
This is perhaps the most "blub" comment ever written. There are whole classes of bugs that can be caught with more advanced type systems that the Rust type system + borrow checker will never catch. No null pointers and immutability is the bare minimum.

If you're interested, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10gSoVZ5yXY for an example of the types of compile time guarantees can be had.
Wasn't this even MORE the case before things like Twitter and Facebook?

Were people making arguments that Simon and Schuster were wrong and censoring if they decided not to publish a book? There are a LOT of books that have been written that no 'major' publisher would touch.

Yeah, that means you have to go and publish the book yourself, and print your own copies. And it means that most bookstores probably won't carry your book, and you won't reach nearly the audience that you would if you had a major publisher.

No one argues that the publishers are wrong for doing that.
You didn't make the legal claim, but Clarence thomas has started going down that path in the recent Malwarebytes judgement

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/101320zor_8m...
> Twitter shouldn't decide for me what I may or may not read.

Of course, but Twitter doesn't do that and never has. You are still very able to read what the New York Post writes by typing https://nypost.com/ into your browser, and Twitter's not going to stop you from doing that.
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes"
I guess the point of the post in particular is the London outlier but honestly I've always found comparisons of CCTV with 'surveillance' in a meaningful sense of the term pretty cartoonish. Obviously living in London is not like living in some police state.

The same goes for China even. Public camera surveillance I think mostly does what it's supposed to do with very little intrusion into people's daily lives, in contrast to old school police stops and frisks. Travelling I've had more bad run ins with corrupt cops in Bulgaria than I had in Beijing.
Don't think the "the ball is in their court" thing applies when you don't really have a choice.
You should check out the NYTimes' coverage of every rumor in Sarah Palin's family right after she was picked as the VP running mate in 2008.
It can't be DRM, obfuscation is never a valid measure to restrict access.

From a technical (code) perspective, obfuscation may be an inadequate protection. But legally, the DMCA only requires some technical measure, and obfuscation satisfies that requirement. It is irrelevant that youtube-dl waits until after Youtube decrypts the content, since the law as written is agnostic to the specific technical details of how copyright protection schemes are implemented.
> Separately I view Twitter as breaking section 230 free speech regulatory agreements in meddling with what they 'publish'

Section 230 was overtly adopted so that platforms would make efforts to censor content that they found to be objectionable; there are no "free speech regulatory agreements" associated with it.

It is the only surviving part of a law whose sole and entire purpose was internet censorship, the rest of which was struck down for violating Free Speech protections.
This is just interesting trivia, but the House and Senate can both ask their respective Sergeant at Arms to perform an arrest. This has never happened as far as I know, but from my reading seems to be permissible for a failure to appear.

There are plenty of logistical issues. I'm not sure the Sergeant at Arms even owns handcuffs, much less a place to keep people being held, and I'm sure it would suddenly become a huge scandal - but it would be very interesting.
No. Asking a question in an unambiguous way is not a requirement that can be done away with. It can't be done in many normal text-based searches, it can't be done in face-to-face conversations with real people, so there should be no expectation that a voice search would yield any better results. Having actual data that exists to answer the question, as with the mask example, is also an essential requirement.

If you expect more, than your problem does not lie with voice assistants, it lies with search technology itself. "Expecting" these questions to be answerable is unrealistic given current capabilities. Working backwards from the UX would produce nothing better because your expectations are thwarted not by poor design, but by the limits of state of the art technology.
Most of the articles are written by 'Tyler Durden', part of the 'fight club' philosophy joke.
Those of you who think locking the account was a good idea should remember you won’t always be in the majority.
The "common person" is honestly pretty depressing. The common person primarily votes based solely on a historical allegiance to a political party (be it individually formed or inherited) with about 75% of America essentially being unmovable D or R safe votes.

Censorship is a hard question and I think we do need to have better laws promoting free access to material (even "libelous" material) but this is also an area where I think it's pretty clear the government has failed in a big way - twitter + FB shouldn't be news platforms, the dumb news aggregators (like google news) do a pretty good job of being dumb platforms, but those commentary platforms are being run by private entities that can "censor" speech as they like depending on how it benefits or harms their platform. America is in a bit of a crisis right now since the extreme partisan divide has driven the real media (print, TV) to actually split into mutually disproving and incompatible bubbles. On election night one half of the country is going to be absolutely astounded since everything they consumed said their candidate was going to win.

I'm not certain what the solution is but some moderation is required to prevent the apparent acceptance of some pretty hateful views along with conspiracy theories. The Internet introduced clickbait to the world in a manner it never previously conceived of - tabloids have been around for ever but never gotten serious consideration - suddenly major political figures are embracing and re-packaging tabloid headlines and it's a bit of a crisis of information for our society.
> Your ISP and phone provider are private/non-state-owned entities too.

Yep, and they can also terminate your service for any reason they choose.
Lol @ Public discourse. Propaganda and populist rhetoric filed by foreign adversories is not discourse.
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Yup and also these:

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16447905

2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4765067

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319034

2008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=127736

2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9661
The truth is often not black and white and doubly so when in the context of persuasion. When you start censoring information for accuracy then you're only getting one person's version of the truth which is even worse because now you're putting a gold stamp on it!
I run into a "I'm pro free speech and am therefore offended when a platform censors something by nature of them censoring at all" comment practically everyday now

people are just conflating the concepts, and I also would not be able to tell if they are consciously referring to the American constitution or a concept that goes far beyond that
Fred may have this opinion, but I assure you that he is speaking from a position of corporate governance in this article.
But is there any reason to get these from the Panasonic daschshund character on this site, instead of any one of a hundred other "how to digital photography" guides on the Internet? There are surely many alternatives.
It's actually not all that surprising if you approach it from a different angle.

Consider that light is nothing more than electromagnetic radiation; it is generated or absorbed only by changes in electromagnetic potential.

Now also consider that electron orbitals in molecules are discrete and quantized: you can be in this orbital (with such-and-such potential energy) or in that orbital (with a slightly different potential energy) but you cannot exist between those two orbitals.

Therefore, light can only be absorbed or emitted by a molecule if it can precisely force an electron into a different orbital, which in classical terms means that it only works if light has a particular frequency.

As you might imagine, sticking protons (which generate electron fields) at different positions within a molecule, or equivalently adding protons to an atomic nucleus, will change the permissible orbitals very slightly. Consequently, the light that an atom or molecule can emit or absorb will change as well.
Right, so I think looking for a deeper philosophy in the choice of name and tagline is a bit futile. "Tyler Durden" used to be the cool pseudonym to use online circa 2005.
It's interesting to see how quickly Silicon Valley culture has changed over the past 10 years from one of free speech absolutism to "benevolent censorship". The people so vociferously clamoring about the nightmare-hellscape of a world without Net-Neutrality are now telling us that a handful of major corporations actively and blatantly censoring speech is no cause for concern.
> Tim Dixon, co-founder of More in Common and co-author of the report, said that while there had been an increase in “culture war” politics in Britain, the country was far better placed to avoid further divisions than many other nations: “Both sides of a culture war rely on exaggerating the threat of the other,” he said. “Both sides want us to think that every person who is ‘on the other side’ to them has all these opposing views. The truth is many of these debates just pass most people by, because they are often based on creating false choices.The UK is actually in a better position than many countries and should be more optimistic.

It was a very sour taste in my mouth after reading this paragraph near the end and then seeing the exaggerated threats to garner donations.

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From the title I thought that this was about the "My dad wrote a porno" podcast and was hoping the next season was coming out soon.

Well it turns out there are other dads who have made pornography! Who would've thought?
We have been teaching people about unconscious bias for years without these theatrics.
None can be counted on. I happen to think the NYTimes is better than most, which is why I read them more often than the rest. But you cannot count on them to not tell lies, even in the most important sort of matters, and anybody who reads any newspaper should always keep that uncertainty in mind.
It's used interchangeably for the number of any road, at least in my experience. It certainly gave appropriate responses when I tested it out.
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It's amazing to me that something I threw out in a meeting six years ago became an entire engineering culture.

It all started when we were talking about what to call the folks who were building things like Chaos Monkey/Gorilla/Kong and I said, "Let's call them Chaos Engineers, since they are engineering chaos". And so we adopted that title at Netflix, and now here we are.

I should also point out here how valueless what I did was -- I literally just came up with the name for what we were already doing inside Netflix. Everyone else actually wrote it down and spread it outside of Netflix. Their contributions to spreading the word are far more important than the name I came up with.
> Show me pictures of the same slaughter that you claim the chinese are doing right now.

You are the one setting the bar at "mass slaughter". Sorry, that wasn't and isn't what is being discussed. Mass interment, violence, rape, retaliation against one's family for political crimes, forced sterilization, etc. The evidence for that is legion, you have access to the same information I do. Look it up yourself (if you care).
Why?

Who's job should it be?

> we think people are too dumb to figure out what is "real" or not so we are going to censor. That to me is an extremely damning view of the common person.

Maybe dumb is the wrong word - but most people are not that bright. There's nothing wrong with saying that - it's why BS marketing is so effective.
I'm in favor of twitter banning links until the New York Post blacks out the email addresses in its pictures. That sort of thing is not necessary for the story and lots of trolls reading them will simply destroy them. It looks like inciting harassment to me instead of press free speech.
Advice taken. That seemed to me to be the fair compromise too, especially given the stat holidays that tend to fall on certain sprints leading to 2 days off. Does your company user 9/80s?
Here's an interesting alternative for hierarchical notes:

https://gingkoapp.com/

https://github.com/gingko/client
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Which raises the question: should one look at cameras per 1000 resident population or cameras per 1000 people present, whether resident or tourist?
I'm curious what your thoughts are on the NY Times pushing false information that led to the second Iraq War? Should they get penalized on Twitter after pushing a narrative that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths?

From the NY Times itself (https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-th...)

"But we have found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been. In some cases, information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged. Looking back, we wish we had been more aggressive in re-examining the claims as new evidence emerged -- or failed to emerge.

On Oct. 26 and Nov. 8, 2001, for example, Page 1 articles cited Iraqi defectors who described a secret Iraqi camp where Islamic terrorists were trained and biological weapons produced. These accounts have never been independently verified."
Not the case.
96% of americans have a cell phone: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/

22% of americans have had a twitter account:
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...
We used to sign off on planning discussions in a team I was in with the phrase "Unless, of course, none of that happens because I quit this job and embrace the life of a humble dairy farmer."

The joke was twofold: first was the things the author discusses here, but second was enough of us had come from farms to know how little doing that would actually improve things. Schedule drudgery is nothing like the work of getting up at the crack of dawn to tend a farm. Pivots and rescheduling is nothing like the uncertainty of losing two-thirds of your crops to a bad season or half your cattle to a disease outbreak. if you hate corporate bureaucracy, try dealing with the EPA or the farm subsidy programs.
In Poland, being a doctor paid a pittance up until around 2005. Your only shot at a decent income was taking bribes (the medicine is socialized, so doctors are in charge in state's resources and, when bribed, will direct them at you) or starting a private practice, but for that you'd usually have to be 40+ years old.

And yet, people did become doctors and worked hard. It was still a respectable profession, and hard to get into. Maybe Poland is (or was) just less materialistic than the US.
I was already put off by the email-centric flow of this (I want to spend less time in my email inbox, not more), but it looks like from this comment that signing up requires me to auth nat.app to read my gmail?

Complete non-starter for me. So many reset flows go through email these days that your primary email is the keys to the kingdom.

I could set up a specific email account on my domain just for nat.app but the whole point of this CRM is that it's in the same flow as the rest of my email, isn't it?
I think there's a difference between meta-drama and discussion of improving the algorithm itself to avoid meta-drama.

I'd actually honestly like to hear your reply on the proposals for flag rule changes. I think they would work, and would improve the discussion quality. We'd get more "out of the box" stuff - far left or right, but also just more out there ideas.

Finally - you spend a ton of time on the meta stuff. I read over a few pages there. You say often you don't have time for it. Perhaps it's time to try making some changes that would reduce the burden? And not ones that further lock it down, but instead add some transparency?

You guys already have vote brigading rules, flag brigading seems natural. Adding cost will improve the quality. Making vouches more precious would improve the quality.

Perhaps add a meta column to the topbar and direct/move all meta discussions there? I know your reply will be "this will only further it" but I doubt it, they could then avoid the home page altogether.

Only trying to help here, but I think you're now so meta-tired you've forgotten that meta discussion can be constructive and there's perhaps really simple changes that would reduce a good chunk of these complains.

Final note - seems like a lot of the complaints are all going the same direction. Maybe they're valid and not just drama.

Edit: let me reframe it in a way that may be helpful: if you could reply to every meta thread with a single link to a static page on HN, a small write up that included a changelog of the latest rule changes you've implemented, a clear policy enumerated, and a link to a "meta" area where you'd automatically move comments/threads, you'd save yourself a ton of time going forward, and I think you'd gain a ton of positive goodwill on the site. You'd conquer the meme thats been building for years as well.