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Thanks for doing that.

I deliberately avoided reading this thread for quite a while, because I could see where it was going. It's pretty depressing how willing (and even enthusiastic) we can be, in dehumanizing other people.

I have been deliberately vague, in specifics, because even a bit more specific could lead to people figuring out some of the identities of the folks I have known. I have enough respect for these people, and for the extreme damage that can be done, if it leaks, that I'm willing to take shots from the "Give us concrete examples, or you're a liar!" crowd.

Here's an example of how tools could be misused. One of the things that I've done, over the years, is design a Web-driven, decentralized system for aggregating 12-Step fellowship (drug recovery) meetings. It's pretty much becoming the de facto world standard.

In some nations (I'm looking at you, Philippines), people can be killed, just for being drug addicts. In other nations (I'm looking at you, Mexico), drug rehabs and recovery gatherings can be targeted by mass-murderers, in efforts to kill just one member.

It's entirely possible that the tool I wrote could become a "murder menu" for these places, and that is not a thought that I take lightly.

Nevertheless, those are "might," scenarios, and there's no question at all, that the tool has saved many, many lives.

I don't think that it's being used in the Philippines, but they are considering using it in Mexico.

I did my due diligence in the design of the tool. A number of compromises needed to be made, in order to ensure that it would be adopted by its intended user base, but it's pretty hard to abuse. Also, the team that took over after I turned it over, includes a number of security experts, so I leave it in good hands.

I can't tell you what to do, but, if you feel that you have done all you can, legitimately, to secure it, then you can probably confidently release it, maybe with some published guidance, outlining risks.
All I'm doing is providing a quote from a government employee who is directly involved in the investigation. I don't know how else one can judge the incident other than from people directly involved in the investigation and by the contents of what has been released.

I don't see anything on Ratcliffe on Wikipedia that would make him a non-legitimate source? Could you point out what you're alluding to?

Stating that the NY Post story "is very suspect" isn't an evidence-based reason to lock their account permanently. In fact, there's a fine number of controversies around the NYT over the years, but I wouldn't support them being blocked from Twitter for any of those reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...
This might be an appropriate thread: does anyone have a OSS alternative to EFS they have run in production? (A NFS-mountable, elastic storage system.)
I have many questions about this.

1. Is it Chromium-based?

2. I see that it references storing links "on the server." Does that mean it doesn't store this data locally, or have the option to do so?

3. What is OPQR and where is it based out of?
You say that as if that's not what Twitter wants. Jack Dorsey and Twitter's chief(?) legal counsel went on Joe Rogan and openly argued that Twitter is a publisher. They expressly waived Section 230 protection and thoroughly explained that their users do no publish content on Twitter, but merely provide Twitter with content that Twitter may choose to edit and publish as Twitter sees fit. They said Twitter makes thoughtful editorial decisions and chooses what content to publish.

I don't agree. I think that's a lie. Twitter is a common-carrier and should not be allowed to discriminate, but that's not what Twitter is saying. Twitter very openly claiming to be a "publisher." Twitter wants you to say that.
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How about a world where corporations have regulations that serve the public?
You are more part of the problem than you could ever imagine.
> Why is fighting for others a problem?

Generally, it is not, but there is a risk that "people who are not X, but are fighting for X" will misrepresent the opinions of "people who are X".

Also, "people who are X" usually have diverse opinions, while the "people who are not X, but are fighting for X" crowd often develops a monolithic opinion, and if you disagree with it, you are called anti-X.

To give an example, I know gay people who want equal rights, but are disgusted by the "prides". If a woke straight person heard me saying that I support equals rights but don't like the "prides", they would call me a homophobe. Because it is known -- among the woke straight people who support gay rights -- that all gays support the "prides".

Similarly, an Indian person probably wouldn't be offended by finding out that I practice yoga (they might actually be happy about it), but a woke white person might sic a Twitter mob on me for the sin of cultural appropriation.

> Again, even if you're personally the whitest, straightest, cis-est, male-st person possible, what's wrong with standing up for the rights of others?

Nothing, unless I appropriate their cause in service of signaling my wokeness and attacking people I don't like.

For example, when racism is used as a weapon in fight between two groups of white people, who already had another reason to fight each other, but used this opportunity to make their attack more socially acceptable.
Maybe Dynalist is worth a look? Basically an outliner in the Workflowy style but it has linking and backlinking at the node level.
We live in a world where Twitter is the place to get information about official government policy (US) or emergency alerts regarding life-or-death situations (NS). If Twitter were not a common infrastructure, it should have been downright illegal to use it like one, at least for government agencies and officials. That ship has sailed long ago. We might as well try to make sure everyone has unfettered access to Twitter. Because sometimes, the alternative is literally death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nova_Scotia_attacks#Lack_...
Well I'm saying the Madrid numbers are not bearing out the prognosis you are outlining. It could be younger people are getting ill and that elderly people are better isolated but it's hard to know because they don't provide deaths by age groups.
Is there a distinction between privately run and state run CCTV?

Do Ring doorbells count in the survey, or is this just for the cameras that are monitored directly from the state police bunkers?
They're less biased than most sources, but there are little things that are easy to notice.

The Associated Press in 2015: "BREAKING: Obama sends $4 trillion spending plan to Congress, pledging help for middle class."[1]

The Associated Press in 2018: "BREAKING: President Trump sends Congress $4.4 trillion spending plan that features soaring deficits."[2]

If a news organization put "soaring deficits" in the Obama headline and "helping the middle class" in the Trump headline, I'd definitely call that right-wing bias.

1. https://twitter.com/AP/status/562287489365594112

2. https://twitter.com/AP/status/963088143527436288
I've given it a show but sadly it doesn't satisfy my needs. Firefox will have to stick for now.

Eventually I'll probably end up on Brave.
Milton Keynes? :)
> But you cannot count on them to not tell lies,

I think that's the wrong framing, at least for an organization like the NY Times.

For one, there's a difference between "a lie" and "an inaccuracy" even though most of the time (but not always!) lies are a subtype of inaccuracy. If you make a similar conflation in software development, you'd say that a team member who pushes buggy code to your repo sabotaged your project instead of saying he made a mistake.

Also there's a difference between an organization and its members. Those individuals you mentioned may have lied, but that doesn't mean the organization lied. If a disgruntled member of your team does try to sabotage your project, that doesn't mean your team is sabotaging the project.
You'd wish, but I think there will definitely be home office surveillance in the employee contract if the economic situation of recent years continues.

Suburbanization also makes satellite surveillance easier and "acustic" face to face interaction much more difficult.
They don't need to bribe anyone. The laws already support the copyright holders.

This is really going to shock you: The Constitution explicitly grants creators and inventors "exclusive rights." (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 ) Fair use is a statutory construct of Congress.
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What baggage is specific to Java? You'd want some experts for the language your critical services are written in, regardless of it being java or C or Rust or whatever. Likewise, a java shop wouldn't want to use a critical service written in C.
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The self-driving cars can act as super surveillance systems by themselves though.
Yeah, it's now clear that Mozilla focus on Wasm is only on the client-side for the browser.

It seems most of the Mozilla people working on Cranelift are no longer employed to work on it.
I mean.. that file is only 2048x935. It's a little hard to tell without the full res version.
See here for discussion on Wasmtime team moving from Mozilla to Fastly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24897641
Sounds like you didn't understand my comment
There are unlimited imaginable reasons why one may want to de-correlate the data sent in or out from ones software to ones personal identity, yes.
For websites that use React, my favorite trick is loading a copy of React Developer Tools inside a headless Chrome instance.

From there, you just find the component you want to copy data from and you copy the state or props. Very little string parsing or data formatting required, no malformed data, etc. There's a library floating around on GitHub somewhere that makes loading a simplified version of React Developer Tools inside Puppeteer just a script you eval with a jQuery-like API for selecting React components, but I can't remember the name right now.

Someone could probably do this without needing a headless web browser (via jsdom)
The article is about hospitals filled with coronavirus patients to the point they have to turn away new patients. Did you read any of it?
What is Ritchie's take on Neuralink? (Sorry to stray onto topics not related to optogenetics. I hope it doesn't irk him that Elon Musk has steered/captured public consciousness regarding neuroscience.)

To stray into sci-fi territory a bit, if money gets poured into the field, is there a chance we might see the Matrix or brain uploads in our lifetimes? And if not in our lifetime, is it ever achievable?

I'm extremely skeptical, but human BCI could be the best/most important development in our history. Any problem gradient with a chance of unlocking immortality should be leaned into. It's way more important than Angry Birds or iOS N+1.

With regard to studying already-alive organisms (we can't splice in the genes required for optogenetics), are there non-invasive techniques that can produce signal from humans? Deuterium NMR cerebral imaging seems low resolution and awkward to deploy.

Could ML / signal processing increase the resolution of EEGs? Could we ever extract video signal from an EEG?

Can an EEG induce perception into a brain?

With regard to optogenetics, what are the things currently being studied with the technique? What pressing questions can it be used to answer? Are there any improvements to the technique that could push it further?

Sorry for so many off-topic questions, but I'd love to know what an expert in the field thinks. I'd especially like to get a grasp of the future of the field.
It's a three-second exposure, hand-held. The software has greatly reduced the blur if anything. Try doing that with a normal camera and the whole thing will be blur.
> If you are a US citizen, anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy. That's right, I'm saying a vote for Trump, a vote for a third-party candidate, or simply not voting at all — they're all the same.

I completely disagree.

I understand how you can characterize "not voting" as "supporting the status quo". But, there are varying degrees of "support", and this is pretty much the lowest degree of "support" imaginable.

David Barrett is trying to paint this as "with us or against us" when in reality there's a spectrum of support. By not voting, you are standing just SLIGHTLY off center in one direction.

It's not all the same.
I would be interested in knowing a bit more about your experiences. As a South-Asian in tech, I have no clue what it is like to be a minority in tech.

While I can to some extent understand how being a woman might be difficult, I am not quite sure what aspects of being a racial minority affect your performance at a tech job.

If you could enumerate some of those blindspots, I'd really appreciate it.
That is a pretty optimistic view of the medical world. Almost all doctors also have to deal with massive bureaucracy, endless budget shortages, 16 hour workdays, night shifts and people under their care dying despite their best efforts.
The point is, the sensor size, lens variety, and ergonomics of a full size camera with the astonishingly good computational photography software of Apple or Google. You can’t do it with a standard camera because the software needs sensor data (gyro, accelerometer) and fast control (video frames, changing exposure) of the camera unit.
"My idea of progress will always be correct, because I am a good person and people who disagree with me are not."
Hall's quote from "The Friends of Voltaire" describes Voltaire's views concerning the revoking of Helvétius's right to publish De l'esprit, its ban in Rome, and more. By my reading, Hall doesn't imply that Voltaire meant to also 'defend to the death' the right for Helvétius to force a given company to publish his book - something which wasn't needed as it was quickly re-published across Europe.

Caesar has crossed this Rubicon so many times there's a 4-lane highway with a Waffle House at the rest stop. Forum moderators have been exercising their right of free association for a long time.

Why would Twitter (and FB) agree to be regulated as common carrier, with limited ability to discriminate in its service to the general public? What should it/they get in exchange?
Ok, what if the only grocery store in your town did it? Or the only gas station or the only doctor's office?
Very interesting concept.
One question: the data that gets input (for example via file-input), does it stay local in the browser or is it (temporarily) uploaded somewhere?
previously (not of this article, but given the edited title I assume the intent of the submission is not that specific article):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24868030

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865128

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24868076
I wouldn't consider this as a backup solution, more as one for high-availability of data.
That was then, this is now. They are acting differently for Biden.

Twitter's setting themselves up as the arbiter of what constitutes "properly sourced" information. What happens if there's another Snowden-type leak under Biden? Hacked materials, gathered without consent, potentially slanderous, definitely hurting the 'good guys' in this news cycle...
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Medium-rare is how you want your beef, no?
The more you think about this the more ticked off you can get.

Voters, and their representatives, made a deliberate effort to be as hands-off as possible to the early internet. It remained tax free. Public facilities were used. Section 230 was passed to remove the specter of liability and so on. We all did the most we could to stay away and let the net develop, knowing that if we came in too heavy-handed, not only would we destroy this new creation, we'd forever taint it in the world's eyes as just being some kind of US thing.

We had high hopes. We were open-minded and experimental. And here's where we freaking ended up: just another Standard Oil or United States Steel Corporation, only this time there wasn't any kind of behind-the-scenes mucking around in politics. It's directly in our face. (And when you point that out, the monopolies themselves will beg for regulation, knowing full well that by the time their money finishes paying off the legislators, the fix will be in. They'll set the wall so high they'll never have true competitors)

Not a happy political place to be, no matter what your particular political views.
Not saying that surveillance is right, but I've lived in London for a year and a half and never felt this way, I don't think I've ever talked to someone who felt this way there, you must be a very paranoid individual.

I will say this though: having lived in both Beijing and London, I've always felt ultra safe (and I lived in London during some terrorist attacks). On the other hand, I lived in SF for the same time and I never felt safe there, avoiding walks at night, avoiding public transport for the most part, avoiding some streets, etc. I also lived in Chicago and I felt much worse there (at least in SF I could still take walks).
This seems incredibly dumb? I feel like I'm missing something obvious. A common behavior I have is to google something and then open 5 separate results as separate tabs. How would I do that here?

At the bare minimum this landing page needs a lot of work. I come away from it feeling like this is some out of season april fools joke about moving browsers back into the 90s.

Edit: Looking at some of the linked articles its been around since at least 2016... almost 5 years, probably more. This is all they have to show?
What is GRR? Did you mean GLR?
One of the innovations since the 1980s when X was designed are shared libraries, so you can have libweston and wlroots now https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots
It would be useful to you to recognize that you are letting an emotional reaction stopping you from using useful technology. I understand that Java makes you uncomfortable, but it is a powerful and stable language and you're missing out by avoiding it. It would take much more time to implement a similar project in C, and it would likely have lower stability. Yes, implementing it in C would use a lot less memory and if that's what you're optimizing for going with something else than Java is a wise choice most of the time.

Most technology is useful, depending on what you're optimizing for. I urge you not to optimize for being comfortable.
For an alternative take on a related topic, this is really a fantastically well-written and practical (free) book: http://craftinginterpreters.com
> 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.

This is one of those statements that sounds bad on the surface but is actually totally reasonable and has nothing to do with some trope about the "uninformed masses" or whatever. Locally the individual matters a lot more but at the national level voting histories show that the party dominates.

People have "disqualifying issues." And this is totally rational. Being black and voting R is nuts -- same if you're gay. And if you're pro-life then voting D is unpalatable. These kinds of polarizing issues very nearly define the party line. So yeah, if you go the polls in Nov and don't know if you're voting D or R (nationally) then you're probably crazy uninformed.

The actual decision making happens during the primaries where people suddenly have an entire group of people who aren't immediately disqualified and the internal discussion gets a lot more nuanced.
Probably because they started out in Java and don't want a full rewrite once they've gotten this far (might be that they don't have many C++ devs anyhow). I remember working on similar codebases 10 years back when J2ME games were still a thing (J2ME runtimes usually had horrible GC's and some people really went overboard in trying to avoid them) and it wasn't that fun at all (Even if the questDB codebase that is linked elsewhere in this thread seems to be saner).

Also JNI for calling C/C++ code is fairly bad and error prone (if you want to combine code), JNA is better but i think this is one of the bigger reasons that Oracle is funding GraalVM is that it promises "seamless" interoperability and breaking up things into Java and C/C++ parts might be a good option in the future.
I'm not English. We don't say eighteen hundred for 18:00, we say just eighteen. And I don't have localized Siri.

And in any case i said eighteen not eight a m.
Comparing the US system with parliamentary governments - I reject the assumption that the two parties are clearly divided along left-right lines. People all have a pretty wide diversity of opinions there are plenty of people I know that are both pro-life and pro-medicare for all - they don't have a home in the US political system and thus have to settle for one party of the other.

The US's two-party entrenchment forces this false appearance of an us vs. them political battle. It's true that in the US you can only legitimately vote for either D or R in races and that this further entrenches the two parties - but issue voters should be flowing pretty freely between the two parties as their individual focuses shift.
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It's not the original. It's a 2048×935 @ 72ppi, at a guess about 1/4 the actual size shot and it's been compressed so it can be uploaded onto a website. It's hardly a real representation of the capabilities of the camera.
> The problem with modern Antifa is that the definition of "fascist" is becoming so loose and so unhinged from historical context that it is meaningless.

I don't buy this narrative. Most of the anti-fascist activists I know adhere to the definition in Ur-Fascism: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
Even WebGL2 doesn't expose compute shaders, so any NN computations work by abusing the graphics pipeline, with many inefficiencies involved. Shader dispatch is more expensive, no access to local memory, no control over dispatch blocks. Hopefully the upcoming WebGPU specification will close these efficiency gaps.
It's certainly possible. I suspect if Google drops out though, then the price for Bing being included would go way down. They'd have no big players to bid against. I don't see Yandex or Baidu being interested.

It's also possible Microsoft would exercise caution, considering this suit against Google. They may want to sidestep any deals that could paint a target on their back in the future.
I completely agree with your conclusion, but you're cherry picking a quote.

>AP is a source that AllSides has struggled to rate, due to its content seeming to toe the line between Center and Lean Left. People on the right may be more likely to see AP’s content as clearly Lean Left. While AP's news and world reporting is largely Center, AllSides has found AP often includes subjective, leftward analysis in hard news reports and omits sources in its political writing; in addition, its fact checks are biased to the left
Don't really like that it requires an email to download. Seems like it's not under active development either, since the last news was posted in 2018.

Anyone know more about this?

I downloaded it and played with it for a minute. Browser without tabs still opens things in new windows, and I don't see any better alternative to following multiple links, so there doesn't appear to be anything new here. Am I missing something?
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For Java you need people in operations who are good at things like JVM tuning working. Just a fact of life, speaking from experience working on teams that do that.

Languages like C and Rust do not have any equivalent to JVM tuning.