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> what do you propose besides measures only seen in totalitarian dystopias

Funny

This website has rules about what you can say and what you can't say.

Nobody thinks it hinders the freedom of speech

But if someone says that it's not different from what totalitarian dystopias do, their karma goes below the level allowed to post anymore

So, I ask you, is freedom of speech an absolute value or is it not?

Who decides which rule enable better debates or it's censorship?

What does it mean whataboutism when someone addresses the elephant in the room: some country acted in a criminal way, exactly like other countries did, in a different way, but unilaterally deciding whatis good and what isn't anyway?

Am I allowed or not to exercise my freedom of speech right here on HM or am I not?

Why the fact that HN doesn't allow freedom of speech in a broad way makes it different from actors that deny the same right to others?

If I can't say what I want and are punished when I do it, what makes USA better than China in this regards?

Wouldn't it be better if it was the US State to protect the freedom of the people to express their opinions instead of some private company?

If you think about it China doesn't want people to talk about politics in the same way HN don't.

Where I come from challenging the status quo is a virtue, not a defect.

And that's probably how much different we are and the reason why you will never understand freedom, which is not granted, it's something you must fight for.

Bombing other countries it's not fighting for their freedom, it's imposing your own single point of view.

To answer your question: what I would do?

I would never put the public speech under private companies control.

Because that's what totalitarian dystopias do.

I live in a democracy and believe that being scared of the State that incarnates the democracy (what people chose to govern them) is no better than dictatorships.
Google didn't hire Gebru for her "wokeness" or for whatever petty internal political issues drive discussions here on HN. They hired her because they are a massive AI company operating on a multi-billion user scale that will very likely produce massic impacts on our society, impacts that we can't even imagine today. They understand at an intuitive level that what they're doing is risky and (perhaps at minimum) they understand there's a risk that it will provoke a backlash. To insulate themselves, they wanted a credible AI ethics researcher even at the cost of her being potentially a bit difficult to manage.

Now, I don't fully understand what happened in this incident, but I think there's a chance that it's far more impactful than some internal workplace spat. To put this succinctly: businesses like Google are playing cards for thousand dollar bills, and HN is interested in debating their favorite game of nickle poker.
It's not. If you're building a backend heavy use-case, there are plenty of good options.

Gatsby is geared towards building web pages, not web applications. If you're implementing Gatsby, you're building essentially HTML pages, possibly with some JS functionality.
I really don't care about individual-morality questions that do not show up in the aggregate. These are perhaps good philosophical problems to ponder, but the legacy of liberalism is such that we think that they imply questions to how society should be run. Nope, they don't.

These serial breeders do not show up in the aggregate in any country I've every been too. If you are worried about population rates in dirt poor countries, the per-capita consumption is so much lower you shouldn't bother.

> The commons will be saturated by the needs of genes of prolific breeders who use women’s bodies as vessels.

Do you have evidence to think this numerically insignificant behavior is so genetically hereditary we should worry about it?
It would be https://archive.org/
An Olympic Hopeful Robbed 26 Banks on His Bike
Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager is really entertaining and lucid if you are interested in a 'casual'(in tone) explanation of the global financial crisis.

It's a set of interviews with "n+1 magazine" from the course of the year later expanded and collated.
Both are missing the point. The important point is this was before Islam.
It's unlikely that there is pent-up demand for 5000 more households in a rural farm area. Farm land just sits there. It doesn't "cost" the local town/county anything.
I'd say Rebol and Forth are less known exotic ideas for programming languages.

I'd also look at Unison, for a more recent exotic programming language concept.

And what GraalVM is doing with the polyglot layer is quite interesting.

Finally my recent favourite is PPL, probabilistic programming languages.

And for more I'd recommend this podcast https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/
Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't look like the `active` prop is ever used in those examples. The `disabled` attribute of the button is just statically there in all cases.
I don't think there is a problem, at least not a technology problem.
When the founder is a pedo its hard to look for postive things. By the way Hind caste system is even worse.
Running Diskitude or WizTree in Wine? Or with CMD+J in Finder > Calculate all sizes.
Live?
Under LVT, if this house is on useless land in the middle of nowhere they wouldn't owe hardly anything. If they inherited empty land downtown they'd have to sell, but no one is well served by someone destitute hanging on to such land and doing nothing with it.
Please let's not start this discussion again, when it's been done to the death in other easily-searchable places on the internet before.
> Which jurisdiction to tax large companies in, even without doing the double Irish trick, is complicated

Certainly, but many of the tricks involve licensing IP between subsidiaries in different tax regimes.

So create an IP tax. Declare the value of your IP and pay an annual tax on it. If you ever go to court to claim infringement, this is the maximum value you can claim.
ABIs are important within an architecture. But there is no good reason to stretch an ABI over too many variants of the same architecture, except to preserve compatibility with a single binary.
Why would I live in my bumfuck FOMO bungalo when there is enough housing in the dense city proper to house everyone I know? (or dense small town proper with good rail to other towns and cities.)

Clearly I will just rent vacation bungalos when I actually have a need to be near nature.
Not much, but Unix purists would argue that systemd violates the Unix philosophy. https://lwn.net/Articles/777595/
Patio11 specifically calls out flash boys as bad and inaccurate.

He recommends: https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-...

Which I’ve had on my shelf for a while, but haven’t yet read.
It's great to ask what someone means but please don't do it in a nasty way, such as by cross-examining them. That costs more than it benefits.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In which case you should sell your property and make bank on what Walmart would be willing to pay for it. (If you wouldn't make bank then your taxes wouldn't be prohibitively high)
I think it's different in that you do have some subset of people who think they're doing things for the common good, and some actually are, but...

"Greed is good" Gordon Gecko
> The literate may be able to form more nuanced opinions, but that matters less if they can't increase literacy consistently across populations.

I'm not sure I agree. It would be preferable for everyone to have the quality of deep literacy, but it still seems like a worthwhile thing to pursue even if not everybody can get there. I can see why it would matter less, but not how that fact would negate the argument itself.

The Kissinger quote about 1/3rd of the way into the article talked about how, even people responsible for making strategic decisions had (what the author of this article would call) deep literacy issues that hurt their ability to make holistic decisions. This seems like a good example of how there's value in encouraging deep literacy, even if not everybody masters it.
I don‘t find it pessimistic as such, although there is a vocal nostalgia for „the web as it used to be“ (i.e. pre-2000).

My bigger gripe is the prevailing tech-hubris, thinking that any problem can be solved with the right technology if you throw sufficiently smart people at it.

I‘m not sure how useful the concept of an „average person in tech“ is. HN is certainly not average in that it does have a strongly pronounced dominant subculture, but at the same time there is a very wide variety of people on this site.
That was a wonderful read.

After 20 years of C++ and about the same number of hours of Rust, Rust makes me feel like Fire Mario because when I come to do a strict correctness and memory efficiency pass after writing something - it’s already correct. I suspect this will have a compound interest-like effect, similar to good code coverage empowering change.
Because no one has asked for it. The people who care are redirecting port 53, which the devices cope fine with, because if you’re doing that you probably have same resolvers upstream. The people who don’t care are never going to decide they’d like to change the DNS resolvers.
This is a common problem that also apply to K8s, LWN recently have this article: https://lwn.net/Articles/835599/
Agreed; ultimately the XDR is for people who, for whatever reason, just want a really nice, large monitor in sync with macOS' color management enough to pay the premium.
I think a lot of this debate is on false premises. It’s not free unbiased media vs censorship but a debate over different kinds of biased media. All social platforms that implement any form of gamification or algorithmically weighted presentation are absolutely not neutral and will tend to promote whatever best satisfies the algorithm or echo chamber effect (in the case of gamified forums).

If the goal of the site is to maximize engagement, that’s going to be extremism, edgelording, porn, and trolling.
What's IE? ;)
i can only hope this is a bad inside joke
Ask HN: Alternatives to HN for non-Hacker News?
I value Hacker News' polite, curious forum culture, which has lasted much longer than I would have expected. Are there other forums with similarly high standards, but which are focused on other things (science, maths, psychology, art... whatever?)
Yea, I just use my tv like a monitor for a Linux box I have in the living room. I like the bluetooth keyboard with track pad a lot better than any remote clicker. We use vlc and a browser for all our video entertainment. It's nice to have all sorts of desktop apps as well... Spotify, transmission, etc.
> It’s offered a megaphone to those promoting dangerous ideas like white supremacy, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, homophobia and other anti-LGBTQ positions, and sometimes outright Nazism.

One should note that every one of these ideas flourished in times and regimes with strict and sometimes totalitarian control of speech. From the anti-Islamist Crusades to the criminalization of queerness to the damn Holocaust, all of the cited problems of free speech had their hay day in times and places without it. What progress has been made to fight these ills only occurred because of the right to say the unpopular.
On HN we go by article quality, not site quality.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Database Performance: Dolt vs. MySQL
It's one thing to sell because you have an unrealized 20x gain. It's another thing to be forced to sell because you can't afford the taxes.
Wow, I'm not sure why this was unpopular, does someone want to fill me in?
I disagree, running and walking are not really substitutes from a health standpoint. Walking has a lot of health benefits but they're largely orthogonal to traditional vigorous exercise.

Modern research has identified that the major mediator of exercise's physiological benefits is the down-regulation of the adrenal axis.[1] In other words, activating the fight-or-flight sensation is a key component of an exercise program. It's also why very high-intensity exercise seems to produce the most rapid improvement in key biomarkers.[2]

Many people don't like vigorous exercise because they feel like they're dying from the strain. However that painful stressful feeling is largely essential to the process.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010733/
[2] https://www.sciencealert.com/just-12-minutes-of-intense-exer...
Nine pints by Rose George. While not entirely about leechers, a chapter is dedicated to the raising and using of leeches in modern medicine. Very fascinating.
> That analysis is not inherently dependent on the labour theory of value. You can frame it that way, but value need not come into it at all. Business owners are capital owners; they have power which arises from the fact that they own a business. They can offer jobs, which everyone needs, but no individual employee is necessary to them. It's a buyer's market, and as a result, the business owner has a lot more power to set wages. This leads to the bulk of the money flowing up to the business owner.

That's how a lot of countries are governed but it doesn't actually have to be the case. There are places where there are more businesses than employers which gives more power to employees. A lot of export driven economies are basically based around the principle that workers in those countries are cheaper than any other country. Governments introduce policies that reduce the purchasing power of employees over time.

>What we wind up with is a system where business owners have substantially more money than workers, purely as a product of the fact that they can use their power to make this happen.

Yeah the real problem is that governments love to listen to what businesses have to say at the expense of workers.
Take a look at Gougen's OBJ programming languages.
The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020
> this is why your carefully crafted structure will break down -- it has no basis in reality.

This is spot on. And also, DRY is for concepts and abstractions, not just duplicated lines of code. Picking the wrong abstractions often has a much higher cost down the line than some duplicated code.
Traditional line managers lack interest / incentives for projects. Even though they might be high priority, different functions have different goals and measurements. The managers themselves fail every new line initiative, since they've no project / PM experience too, and also no support or real budgets. When this happens, look at the environment though for answers.

This type of managing is running out of time, as it simply doesn't work that well beyond managers having eachother's backs. Managers need to involve themselves much more around projects / Agile, than just borrowing and stealing back "resources". If they can't provide servant leadership skills and healthy repurposing of roles, they need to stay away and clear blocks, allocate funds and people, from quite a distance.
> Improving self esteem by 45%.

> Improving mood by 54%.

> the research has shown

How uncannilly mordant -- that one needs statistics and scientific studies to know how to be human.

I hope the history of academia's roots don't escape anyone; we've traded one omnipotent figurehead for another.

Apologies, author. I know you had to pump this up so Google et al. would even consider indexing this piece at any useful level -- or that anyone would read or discuss a piece with just:

> Put any shoes that you have on. Put any clothes that you have on. Just simply, walk outside and move one leg after another.

> The motion is simple. The results are profound.

In the body.

I'm imaging a Twitter; where instead of writing out meaningless twaddle, there are pithy and brief "learnings" -- like fortune cookies for the soul.

Life would be simpler, if we condensed it all down to only the most basic principles.
i love a good patio11 takedown. got a source for his call out?
I get more value from these articles than the IT related ones posted to HN now. Early on in my (and HN's) 'career' I would have had a different opinion though.
Don't see how. They wrote in Arabic, but were not themselves Arabs. Arabic, the language, was carried with Islam out of Arabia to the entire Indian Ocean seacoast, and well inland most places.
> I don't consider these biases "Major Flaws" or flaws at all. IMO these observations are heuristics that actually work amazingly well for most every day situation and one shouldn't be quick to discard them in lieu of some deeper, system-2esque idea.

I cannot agree more. If we determined to point to a "Major Flaw", that I'd propose something like inability to judge difficulty of a task a posteriori. It is the most strikingly could be seen in children:

> For instance, we can show the children a familiar candy box. Anyone who sees it will leap to the conclusion that there's candy inside. When we open it, it turns out to be a trick: there are actually pencils inside. Then we can ask the children simple questions about this series of events. What did you think was inside it? What will your friend Nicky think is inside it, if he sees it all closed up like this?[1]

Three years old children consistently believe that Nicky will think that there are pencils inside the candy box. With age people become wiser, but there are a lot of people who cannot grasp it for more complex setups. They resort to a modified version of a Hanlon's Razor[2]: if we cannot understand why someone had made a mistake, then it is because of stupidity. If a decision led to a mistake, than it was a stupid decision.

I personally believe, that it is a problem of bayesian mind, which updates probabilities after observation. Some patching could help, but only in a limited way. One cannot replay a past state of a mind on a full scale, it would require a bigger mind.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Crib-Early-Learning-Tells/d...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
And if you're really really paranoid, remember that HDMI cables can carry network connections. Though I believe that capability is rarely used.
77 Rue Galande, 75005 Paris, France

Tell me that's not charming as hell.
That works for internal products, but not foreign ones. If you're importing from somewhere that also has a comparable carbon tax it's fine, but otherwise you have to apply the carbon tax to all imports.

Doing so also likely violates any free trade agreements you've signed.

It's a hard problem, but the gains are massive, so it's worth it.

It'll be a lot easier if a set of countries do this together.
This is apparently an unpopular opinion, but READ THE PRIMARY SOURCES.

"There is a strange idea that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books. Thus I have found as a tutor in English Literature that if the average student wants to find out something about Platonism, the very last thing he thinks of doing is to take a translation of Plato off the library shelf and read the Symposium. He would rather read some dreary modern book ten times as long, all about ‘isms’ and influences and only once in twelve pages telling him what Plato actually said. The error is rather an amiable one, for it springs from humility. The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. It has always therefore been one of my endeavors as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire." -C.S. Lewis

I attend the best "Great Books" program in the country, the Torrey Honors College. Here are the strictly philosophy texts they had us start off with the first semester: Plato's Meno, Symposium, and Republic, and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. You can find the full reading list here: https://www.biola.edu/torrey/academics/reading-list

If you want to dig in more, I would encourage you to look into the "Great Books of the Western World" set compiled by Mortimer Adler. There is an accompanying curriculum that walks you through reading them without a teacher or classroom [https://www.thegreatideas.org/tgi-program.html]. You can typically find them on eBay for relatively cheap.
Hmm, that's weird. I've never seen a more expensive online store than Amazon. All the small online shops I've visited offer lower prices for identical products. They also generally have a better selection within their niche so you don't end up overpaying for products that are way more capable than you need. It's also much easier to find products on those small online shops thanks to aggregators like geizhals.de

Meanwhile searching products on Amazon is still a shitshow and it's generally not possible to disable third party listings.
Do people actually use those?
Thanks for all the insight.

I do want a sincere diagnosis but I am worried I won't be able to make progress if the doc is only with me for 15 minutes, as it has been in the past. Maybe that's just the medical culture in America.

The ADHD symptoms speak strongly to me, especially about focus and motivation. Anyhow I read all your replies, will give it a shot. Much appreciated.
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I was going to post pretty much this.

Makes you wonder whether it's hidden behind a paywall for a reason.

I'm sure those paywalls are also hiding a lot of actually decent science, but it appears that just as many rely on them to hide their sloppy research.
> There are much better things in life than a lot of money

Sure - but if you want to live in silicon valley, you will have to join FAANG or have startup riches (much more difficult) to have a "normal" life that you'd have elsewhere. You're not going to own a house in good school district with startup income.

If you live in BFE then whatever - maybe the 100%+ raise in income wouldn't affect your lifestyle. For most of us in SV, it has a very substantial increase in quality of life.
This is a little tidbit of the internet that is not web2.0 js react ad infested and people are hating on it? C'mon, it's someone's personal podcast where they talk about what they want. If topics such as anarchism and human rights are important to him, he has a platform to shout out his beliefs from.
It definitely helps the scientific process if your religion worships martyring yourself, and make a non-violent, stand against society's expectations.
Is it possible to self host this and isolate it on your own p2p network? Would be really cool to handle the decentralized part on my own computers without needing to hook into the global p2p.

Gonna keep an eye on it.
> In 2012, Apple launched the MacBook Pro a with "retina" display. It took _years_ for non-Apple alternatives to materialize.

Ironically this is now somewhere they could stand to improve.

The MacBook displays are excellent, particularly when it comes to colour reproduction, but for the past several years they default to a scaled display mode. For anyone not familiar, the frame buffer is a higher resolution, and scaled down for the display, trading sharpness for screen space.

Evidently the drop in sharpness is imperceptible to most people, but I can certainly tell, to the point where I forego the extra space and drop it back to the native resolution.

For a company that generally prides itself on its displays, I think the right option would be to just ship higher res panels matching the default resolution.

They have also done this with certain iPhone displays over the years, but at 400+ppi it’s well within the imperceptible territory for most people. For the 200-something ppi display on the MacBooks, not so.
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