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Post publishes a lot of disreputable trash that's outright false or unproven

It doesn't matter. This strawman is presented every time this topic comes up. It's not about the quality of the Post's journalism. It's about whether Twitter should restrict it.

I've been reading the Post off and on for the last 40 years, and you are correct that it is a rag. But it is a newspaper. A newspaper with a better reputation for reporting the news than Twitter.

Not every article is going to be to your taste, or ape your point of view. And as newspapers go, it is very sensational. This is not a secret. Everyone knows what to expect when they pick up a copy. And they read it with that filter in mind. This is literacy 101.

But people on HN try to falsely characterize it as the equivalent of the National Enquirer. It isn't. It's a legitimate newspaper, whether you like it or not.

99.9% of the Post criticism I see on HN is from people who have never lived in New York. Never actually read the Post, or any other newspaper. They just amplify and repeat the echo chamber hyperbole they see from other people who have never read the Post. Some of the most vocal have stated in other threads that they are Twitter employees.

If I have to choose between the Post being an information gatekeeper and Twitter, I'll go with the Post every time.
Ha, I remember being in high school and having the same debate. I think users reject dramatic change but slowly get used to it. The exception is “new Reddit”, which is still widely disliked in favor of https://old.reddit.com.
It still isn't. The Youtube player is garbage and full of tearing.
That's gonna require 200 engineers at SF rates. Better shoot for $0.5B if you want to be taken seriously.
"Open source" and "Easy of use" do not represent opposite sides of a spectrum.
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Not that far https://github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki/issues/...
To add to this (which I 100% agree with) is the chorus of voices suggesting that their usage was OK because they weren't downloading RIAA content.

Just because someone isn't an RIAA member doesn't mean they don't have copyright over the content they upload to YouTube. There are some YouTube creators that would be totally fine with you downloading their content but you can't assume every creator is the same. Just because a user filmed, edited and uploaded some video from their own house doesn't mean they have any less rights than music or video from major labels or Hollywood studios.
To be fair that's an extremely high bar, one of the best things about Python is it's ecosystem and few other languages can match it.
This is also roughly my experience (though I haven’t tried 1.6 yet) and it really a shame - I much prefer Julia’s syntax to R’s (my primary language) and would love to switch for statistics work.

The problem is perhaps that I largely do fairly simple statistics and plotting, with scripts that in R usually take seconds rather than minutes to run, and the disadvantages of the requirement to compile the code overcomes the compiled speed advantage.
What fake news did the NY Post publish?
If this was really the case, wouldn't we expect large numbers of Canadian homes to be sitting empty? Or to have a rental market with high vacancy rates at the expense of a tight sales market? In Vancouver at least, we don't see either of those. But the population keeps exploding (2%/year for the metro area) and people keep protesting development. What's the most straight-forward explanation for this?
This is why home surveillance cameras all suck. You can't run a company that makes them because people are the worst.
My issue with TBP is not so much the hand-waving, it's the attempts to explain things that quickly become ridiculous, because the author is clearly out of their domain of expertise. Sophons are one example - they would be more believable unexplained, but when they're explained as a circuit on the surface of an unrolled elementary particle, well...

Or sometimes it's the way something is set up in a particular way, only to be abandoned when it becomes inconvenient. For example, when they come up with a plan to set up a trap using monomolecular filament, it is specifically stated that it can only be made in that shape. But literally one page later, when the question of how to tie it to something without cutting through that something comes up, it's immediately dismissed by the same character saying that they can also make sheets of that material, so it can be used as a backstop. Either take is believable per se, but they're clearly mutually exclusive.

On the whole, the science in Three-Body Problem kinda felt like gratuitous insertion of random (and ften misunderstood) pieces of popular science into the story as a deus ex machina.
LOL at the people threatening to quit Facebook. Quitting Facebook is like "going off the grid" -- sure, some people do it, but 99% of the people who threaten to will never even get close, and the people who actually do it don't spend their time shouting about how they're going to do it.
This seems like a positive development. I have two items on my wish list:

- tail recursion elimination. There's a draft proposal but only one engine implements it at the moment which is blocking further progress.

- RISC-V backend for Cranelift (TBH, I'm sure someone will do it eventually).
Sure parts are replaceable, one at a time. Replacing them one a time maintains the body. The structure of the body is more than the sum of it's parts though.

The robots need a body to orient their brain in spacetime. AIs classifying images from pure theory requires a body to relate to all the other objects in the world. Tagging a door knob as 'turnable, openable' requires the robot to have a hand that can do it. A banana only looks edible and life sustaining because we have a body. A floating head loses all interest in a lot of things, I'd guess.
> How does the act of dying change or otherwise mitigate a dead person's despicable actions?

Celebrating the death of a person is generally a jerk move. No, he wasn't Hitler.
I think it would be helpful to forget about the "Republicans" and think about other people who might hold other opinions which may not be shared by the owners of one of the dominant platforms for announcing your views.

No one is saying that New York Times has to publish the story. However, if someone wants to publish a story and announce it to their followers on a platform, citizens need to think long and hard before agreeing to "whatever the shareholders want goes."

The fact that they do not have a product they sell to the recipients of information at a positive price makes it harder for competitive alternatives to gain any traction at all. So, the fact that once a platform like this achieves a certain reach it is unlikely to be effectively challenged means we need to think hard about how much power we want them to have in terms of shaping the conversation: Both conversation we like and conversation we do not like ... It is not sufficient to think in terms of your affinity to the dominant forces. You have to think about what kind of society you want to be in when you are in the minority.
I was hoping that this was going to teach me how to build an altar to Khorne.
The process for a subpoena takes forever and isn't guaranteed.

If I have a subject who has relevant video on a service like YouTube, and I decide to go the subpoena route, here's the process:

- Find the exact video, document the URL, Content creator's account name, and video upload date.

- Submit a preservation letter to Google to ensure the video will still be accessible when the subpoena is auctioned.

- go to my prosecutor/legal team to determine what jurisdiction the subpoena has to go through. It could be the county I'm in, the county the subject lives in, the county the video was uploaded in (unlikely), or the county where Google hosts the video.

- draft the subpoena and get it reviewed by whichever judge/magistrate applies.

- wait who knows how long for the subpoena response, hopefully it comes back with the real video and important content.

- face defense arguments in court that my subpoena was improperly obtained/submitted
Google has zero interest in free downloads. They are in bed with the music industry which makes them some ad dollars and their client thinking is sub-zero. Thats because the public is not the client, the advertisers are. If I worked at Google I would be scratching myself behind the ears and take a long big look at what the company has become.
> to have found the perfect abstraction, or ...

Didn't even know that I was writing about the perfect abstraction.

Mediocre environments are where you will not find much code of high quality even though every GoF pattern seems to have been applied. That simple code you mention requires professionals and talent. Looking for the perfect abstraction is what you find in mediocre environments.

Redis is actually a good example. It is a highly specialized tool. It might perfectly fit your needs but someone in your company might have defined mysql as boring and Redis to be not... So youl'll use mysql...
the ability to easily filter/unfilter users from my feed is a much more user-friendly solution to that problem.
For me it's really interesting to read all the complaints about precompilation times etc. I'm definitely not saying the complaints are false, just that there are also some of us out there where they matter close to 0 (at current level). I use Julia from the REPL, running mostly self constructed algorithms. Only fairly basic modules are used.

My main project is a backtesting framework for algorithmic stock trading. A typical run took more than a month of runtime on my computer when the code was in optimized Numpy and now takes less than 1 minute in optimized (but likely far from optimal) Julia code. The only way to come at all close to the speed of Julia with Python would probably be something like Numba, which I figured would be more immature than Julia. Python is only usable for heavy computing on large data when the glue can be in the outermost loop so to speak.
For sure, VPNs will always be used. I think it'll take a BeyondCorp SaaS company to really take off (or have it become a more "Managed"auth method from the big cloud providers).

At Transcend we are able to do it because we had an early focus on protecting our internal apps, but obviously it's a lot harder to migrate hundreds of services than to start out with a newer approach.

I loved not having to use a VPN back when I worked at Google though, and am glad to see that the open source world is starting to offer some tools to play around with.
It does - long tap a link and you can open in a new tab.
We recently acquired new hardware and plan to look into it. Invalidations can get in the way, but there are some things that can be done.
>Centrist public opinion is very different from the status quo

The centre of public opinion might be different from the status quo, I don't want to argue about that here.

I was doubting that people who identify as 'centrist' usually hold the 'centre of public opinion'; I think they are more likely to hold a significantly right-wing opinion on most issues.
I'll just repeat again what I've said a few times in comment sections on UEFI-related articles:

UEFI is not Secure Boot. Secure Boot is a feature that is implemented by UEFI-compliant systems these days, but UEFI systems originally shipped completely without the feature and it's still perfectly possible to do so.

Complaints about Secure Boot are generally valid complaints to have. Complaints about UEFI that are actually just complaints about Secure Boot are... just complaints about Secure Boot. Valid complaints about UEFI that are unrelated to Secure Boot are rare.
There is a color accessibility issue with the current logo.

I've explained it here: https://speakerdeck.com/syrusakbary/wasi-logo-proposal
That's what you get when you start treating politics as though it is a teamsport instead of a way to run a country, and where parties try to undo as much as possible of their predecessors.
I wonder if folks are more averse to Maven than Java
In my country it's not illegal to download copyrighted movies/music. It's just illegal to share them.

So how was I infringing copyright by downloading something from a public website where copyright holder left the content publicly accessible to anyone?

I'll give you that it may or may not be against ToS of the distribution service, but that's all. But it's not a distribution service causing the ruckus around youtube-dl, but the copyright holder, so that's kinda beside the point.
Yeah, I can certainly relate to this.
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>> But it is just a piece of paper that the team printed out, and I think I lost it.

loses the single most important medical document that's going to save his life
Absolutely yea - especially since we're sorta leaning that way in America right now. But I think that that risk is coming out of undemocratic qualities of our government rather than the democratic ones.

I really really want to dump FPTP voting since I think it inevitably leads to two party systems and that two-party partisan us vs. them politics is what lets authoritarianism grow.
Following the link to other tilesets, tiles appear to be distributed with no meaningful metadata at all...? For instance look at https://opengameart.org/content/lpc-tile-atlas2 – it's on a grid, but just a total mishmash of sizes, with some intended to line up. And that doesn't even include the orientation or the real-world physical size they are intended to represent.

It's a ton of awesome art in there, and seems like a huge effort to make use of it!
> We want to build a long term business that is totally based on trust

Trust on today's Internet? With regards to personal data? Facebook kinda poisoned the well for you there, /methinks.
The amount of election meddling done by Twitter/Google & Facebook this year will go down in history, and not in a good way.
"it largely relied on templates...the site only worked with Javascript...some plugin called Woocommerce"

You really sound out of touch with your comments. That's what I'd do if a client asked for something like this, I wouldn't waste my time, or your money, lovingly crafting it from scratch.

What exactly were you expecting? Beautifully crafted LISP where they hand-crafted the CSS and HTML just for you? A progressive web-app that you could navigate even if you were blindfolded using an Amiga running a spectrum basic emulator via console commands?

It sounds like they delivered an affordable solution to your specification that didn't meet your personal, hidden, specifications. If you wanted a unique approach to what is a solved problem you should have asked for it.

Also, from a purely statistical view[1], it is far more likely that had you written this yourself, it would have had far more security holes than any of the WooCommerce code.

[1] Namely that the average programmer will be more prone to accidentally introducing a glaring security hole in new code than the battle tested, used by 100s of millions, WooCommerce code. Of course, you may believe you are not 'average', we can't really judge that.
The hot mess is the story in question has been verified by multiple sources and is credible. What this means is Twitter is obviously trying to sway the outcome of an election by making editorial decisions on which information it allows on it's, supposedly, neutral platform.

Because it's making editorial decisions of what news to allow on it's platform it should be treated as any other news organization and it should be open to liable law suits.

Congress needs to enforce 230 and make Twitter choose; either 8kun or NYT, pick one.
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Created by AVG...newest ratings not favorable. Used to love AVG for antivirus back in the day, but then it turned into all the others...meh.
The 7550 is a 15” laptop.
So if I don't misunderstand they heal the scattered wavefront by knowing that they are applying ultrasound to relax/contract a specific blood vessel. So while the image is created with information coming from reflected photons in the red/NIR spectrum they also know how to locate that physically by using a beacon.

This is all from old tech-talks and material that I saw. They were even very vocal about how they were able to do this because they were using this new piezoelectric microphone/speaker chips in the ultrasound frequencies.
I host my Tiny Tiny RSS Reader and use this on Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ttrssreade...
> Now I don't even know anymore. I find it very relaxing to place blocks and build stuff.

Seems like a pretty good use case to me.
Based on your response, and the parent comment, it seems like content hosts have a responsibility: to determine if a DMCA takedown request is valid. If a host doesn't see this as a responsibility, and simply complies with every DMCA (whether valid, invalid, or even fraudulent), I'd agree with op... the host is culpable whenever they comply with an invalid or fraudulent DMCA request. Maybe not culpable in a legal sense, but certainly they are to blame (otherwise who?) for complying with invalid DMCA.
Except for an exceptional period between 2012 and 2015, Ireland has had net inflow of migrants for years.

Even if you focus purely on Irish people emigrating, the numbers are tiny - about 30k a year from a population of nearly 5 million - mostly from outside Dublin. So there's no trace of many people migrating for economic reasons in the statistics.

I will admit that I've more or less given up arguing with my friends who live in Dublin about housing - some sort of mass hysteria has taken hold and normally well-informed people are convinced that Dublin "has the worst property crisis in the world" when all statistics comparing Dublin with other European cities show that buying or renting property there is about average or better in terms of affordability for a European capital.
If there is one reliable thing in webdev, it's users complaining when something is redesigned.

Give it a week and everyone will have gotten used to it.
Would it be possible to compile a list of all of the political operatives (current and former) in tech? Can we make them register in the future?

I didn't know this was happening, but I guess I should have.
Law enforcement already has an anti-circ exemption under 17 USC 1201(e), though a finding against youtube-dl would limit it's (or similar tools') availability and/or functionality.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
Fake? Didn't Biden's lawyer ask for the laptop back? If it was fake why did ask for a laptop that wasn't theirs?
I mean, yes, if you have billions to dedicate to building a leading class security team-not all organizations have that money and not all organizations need to take that approach. Some do and some need to.
They have stated they will never remove old Reddit. And to an extent, I believe them. But instead what I think will happen is old Reddit will just slowly decay. Here is an example: https://old.reddit.com/r/Stepmania/comments/jg2ab2/remote_ar...

That link at the bottom is for a video. I can't figure out how to watch that video in old Reddit. But if you load this post up in new Reddit, the video plays in line.
“We will teach you to be good at technical interview questions”
I use multiple media.

Nothing beats the fluidity, ubiquity and the sheer aesthetic quality of pen on paper. Excellent for diagrams and notes as I am discussing something on a call, or explaining things (mostly yo myself) consuming information dense video or audio content.

But I don't always have my notebook on me, and I tend to loose bits of paper easily. So to capture thoughts, I use "email thyself" on my phone.

Every once a few weeks, I clear out my inbox. Most notes go to junk. Some get cross referenced. Fewer still become actual files in my git repo.

My git repo is just a versioned bunch of files with upto 2 levels of hierarchy.

This works amazingly well, for capturing information. no lock-ins, no fear of losing content, frequently gets cleaned up and cross referenced with version history (which I dont mind losing as I have dates in the text files themselves).

What I haven't figured out (yet) is a sustainable way to regularly go back to the content I've collected to keep them rolling through my memory without it being an overwhelming amount of work.

Refreshing things regularly is the best, most effective way to find patterns and make better connections. Haven't broken that code yet.
This is so arrogant. Simplicity of Go is a boon for everyone, including super-geniuses like yourself. Keeping the language and ecosystem as simple as possible means you can operate with lower cognitive load, and devote more of your mind to your current task.
It's not that simple is it?

I want to see the photos my crazy aunt posts of her family and dogs, but I would love to not see the alt-right political memes she also posts.

I can do this already to some extent by simply blocking certain sources that she's reposting from. It's harder to do when the content is copied and pasted.
Who does the electoral college favor? Simulations show a slight bias to Trump
Great question.

Capabilities are a more generic, core idea.

In this particular example, the capability to see a directory & it's children is what's getting passed around & refined (starting with the top level directory the app has, then perhaps winnowing down the capability to pass to the upload middleware).

But capabilities can represent other things too. The program might get capabilities to open a socket, to listen on a socket, to send or receive data on a socket. Those capabilities might similarly be refined & passed around to libraries.

The broader model of capabilities is that you can only do whatever you are passed, only exercise whatever capabilities you get. You have no other way to talk to the platform, no platform api, other than the set of capabilities you get from your caller. So capabilities keep getting winnowed down, shrunk, to the right size, where we expect, for the file-upload middleware, that it can read some bytes off some sockets it gets passed, and where it can write files, into a certain directory, but having no other capabilities, it can not do any more than that.

While filesystem sandboxing was core to my example, it's just one demonstration of what a capability might be. The underlying model for how that sandboxing is implemented is "capability based". There's a pretty long history for capability based systems. Not a simple example, but the "E language" is a pretty well known example from 1997 that tried to push capabilities into an interesting distributed frontier: http://www.erights.org/
Did someone DMCA this post?
Definitely not intended! My apologies. On re-reading it, it doesn't seem demeaning at all to me... but that's just my reading of it. I'd like to improve... what specifically seems demeaning to you?
Is availability on a locked, walled garden "public"?

I think we can tell what the RIAA thinks about that.
> A lot of people in this world say that they know with certainty what will happen after death.

Well, Hinduism is based on a type of science. Just like scientists and psychedelic enthusiasts document and discover states of being and the mind, so have ancient rishis and sages done without drugs for centuries.
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