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>What would really change if Section 230 was repealed? Facebook and Twitter are already moderating + flagging content on their own. Now they just would be held... legally liable for bad/opinionated fact checking? I doubt that would up in court?

What would change if section 230 were repealed? Well, among many other things, if you have a git repo and you delete any PRs (say, someone posts spam or links to porn or other material irrelevant to the repo and its underlying purpose), you can then be sued if someone (not you) posts a bug report or an opinion about anything that a third-party doesn't like.

Or if you host a mirror of lkml[0] and Linus posts a snarky response to a patch merge request, without section 230, you can be sued.

Or if you host a web site and someone posts a comment to which a third-party objects, without section 230, you can be sued.

I'm not sure how you feel about that, but that's not the kind of world in which I want to live.

[0] https://lkml.org/
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I agree with the main point but:

>Kubernetes, and Docker and CI? Cool tech, I suppose, but time wasters. Your release process should be scp-ing and extracting a zip file on the prod machine, or git checkout the files.

Ok, let's accept that K8s is overkill most of the times. But containerization and CI/CD? If you've some experience with it you know it's something that takes little time and money to set up (e.g. GitLab CI) and you get tons of benefits - you don't need to get super fancy either.

To me it sounds like the time waster would be doing what you describe, specially because it's so easy to mess it up after you do it a bunch of times on a single day. I used to do that when I started with PHP several years ago (replace scp-ing with FTP and git with cvs or svn) but IMHO it's not worth it once you deploy your product live.
Tell HN: Facebook leaks the contacts of any not-on-Facebook email address
We know that Facebook maintains a social graph of non-users. Worse, anyone can access targeted bits of it for free. How?

Facebook allows any new account to use Facebook for 24 hours without email verification. As a consequence, anyone can register with your email address (provided you don't use that address for Facebook), and use Facebook for 24h. They will be getting various "friend" suggestions picked from people having you (with that email address) in their address book.

No big deal? Story time. My name is John Smith. A lonely person also named John Smith, from a different country, decides to seek love on Facebook. He creates an account and, having no email, randomly puts johnsmith@gmail.com in the field. Bad luck for me, I am johnsmith@gmail.com, and I do not use that email for Facebook: I use it for work. John decides to befriend all female "people-you-may-know" suggestions. I suppose those start with people who have emailed me at some point. It starts with my boss's wife (my boss and I had had a family barbecue previously) and the graph quickly expands from there on to people I had no direct contact with. The first few new "friends" have no reason to refuse the request, since it is attached to my name and they don't have me on Facebook already (I don't add colleagues on Facebook). The next "friends" see people they trust as "friends-in-common". Ten hours later, my boss texts me that something fishy is going on. I check that email address, see the Facebook verification email, reset the password, log in, and discover the many fortunately-tame but still-embarrassing attempts of poor John Smith.

I believe this was not an impersonation attempt, but one does not need much imagination to see the many funny and not-so-funny application of this "feature". Pick a time when the target is in a different timezone (hence won't get a chance to see the verification email immediately) for added fun. Then, enjoy Facebook's creepy social graph data for up to 24h.
If you're talking about Marine Le Pen, she's not a french minister (as in government minister, she's (or was) a member of the european parliament)

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20190412-wikileaks-fouder-...

The last public stance of the french government (that I could find) on the matter was that they don't "offer asylum to someone who’s not asking for it"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/julian-assan...

And he made a request in 2015 but was denied.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-assange/france-rej...

Plus, I'm not sure if he qualifies for the status of refugee (asylum seeker) as defined here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Relating_to_the_Sta...

As a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951 and owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.

From the US point view at least (and the UK according to the latest judgment), he's being extradited for a crime not a political opinion.
Sure. Very real risk. And no doubt it’s happened many times. But it happens in real life too, it’s not a problem unique to crowdfunding. Ponzi schemes and pyramid selling were a thing way before internet crowdfunding was invented.

Don’t bet what you can’t afford to lose. Make sure you evaluate to the best of your ability the risks of the project and the caliber people involved. If you don’t feel you can make those judgements accurately enough for the project your considering and the amount of money involved, keep your money in your pocket. Don’t back it.

But again, I think the phrase “steal a lot of money”, the same as the phrase “making a purchase on Indegogo” reveals a mindset that doesn’t reflect what crowd funding actually is. The reality is you pledge/give them some money, and they promise to try and make the thing you want. No guarantees. Some of the things I see on those sites are obviously impossible. Some, like the espresso machine I backed, turn out to have underpriced the thing by an order of magnitude because the people involved didn’t even know what they didn’t know about making several thousand consumer appliances.

I always consider the money I send to Kickstarter (et al.) as a gift or donation. If the people I gave that money with go and spend it on hookers and blow, that was always a possibility I understood when I sent the money. I _hope_ I’m a good enough judge of projects and the caliber of their people that I never send too much money to a project thats outright fraud (or totally oblivious incompetence). But if I get that wrong, that is my own problem. I won’t hide my failing there behind words like “purchase” or “stealing”, because that’s in my opinion, demonstration that I’d been fooling myself what I was getting into when I sent the money.

Like I said earlier. “Purchase” things from retailers. Throw money at crowdfunding for things you wish you could buy but can’t, and hope that money actually turns I to the thing you want eventually. But don’t throw any more money than you can afford to lose. Because you might lose it.
Thank you for saying this.

So many people here are chiming in with this idea that any time not spent shitting out sales is time wasted for a startup company.

What?

Please don’t take advice like this as dogma and throw the baby out with the bath water. Yes, don’t waste time like OP did, but you’re allowed to use your judgement to at least lay down some of the train tracks before you slam the throttle on the fully loaded train to 100%.

And no, I don’t advocate bike shedding on “code quality” for months before touching anything that matters. I still very much value prototyping ideas to inform MVPs, it’s an amazing workflow when you cut out the friction to get to the meat of an idea! And then by all means, get to the path of least resistance where you can sell it ASAP. But along the way you’re going to encounter friction, and you’re going to see where process is actually needed. LISTEN to these “impulses”, just do it carefully and only when the need is VERY clear.

Do not consciously sabotage all engineering efforts because a large number of people on HN told you to otherwise your startup would fail. Turns out, like everything else in life, that there isn’t some magic formula to success here— that the day is only won by the ones who build high rises on landfill.
Practically speaking a good outcome for Assange, but a bad outcome for our rights to free speech and free reporting in a liberal democracy. The US have killed millions in the Middle East since 9/11, yet no one is ever held to account for their brutal war crimes. Blair, Bush, Rumsfeld and their associates should be the ones prosecuted, not Assange.
Genuine question as I don't know that industry at all. How does being a member of a union imply more experience?
Adam Steltzner, who was lead engineer for the EDL of the Curiosity Rovoer, used to play in a rock band. I attended his talk, and he was just as charismatic in real life as on camera.
The way I see it, if unions did nothing, Google and Amazon wouldn't be working so hard to prevent them from forming.
Damn, that's very smooth! Way better than Google Maps. Do you have any insights why this isn't used by OsmAnd?
I don't miss the free expression or creative genius -- I miss the individualistic and amateur craft spirit.
I feel like calendars should allow filling spaces other than half hour blocks. I think I understand why the Google calendar might do this. The target usage might be more for events or meetings which fit more nicely in these blocks. For usage outside of events and meetings, I want to be able to paint the calendar at whatever minute and intervals that I like. And if we're only doing 30 minute blocks, aren't we just doing yet another recreation of the king which is Google calendar? Seems like there's a high bar to get people off the king, which is probably also why so many recreations have features to sync there.
That's not how extradition works, ever. Yes, many countries have extra protections against extraditing their own citizens, but those only apply while those citizens reside there.

Otherwise there would be a booming naturalization business for some less-scrupulous nations.
IMO this entire thread is missing a likely trajectory/implication here. This isn't a union formed in the industrial revolution.
Where do you see in the article that they aren't current Google employees?
Bin Laden did not go to the USA to commit his crimes.
A bunch of different things:

1) Spending more time with people I love.

2) Traveling.

3) Low-impact hobby farming and forestry with horses.

4) Learning to do new things.

5) Connecting with new people in my community. Volunteering.
Doggerland (where Dogger Bank is situated) is a pretty intriguing place and worth reading up on. But the general gist is that the UK was landbridged to the Netherlands and Denmark up until relatively recently (10,000BC) when a glacial lake gave way and submerged the area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
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I'm more worried about why the judge acted like this in the first place.
Don't think we've ever seen Hollywood in the modern era without unions, so not sure how you can claim it's "undeniable" the industry is better off. We basically have no clue if it's better off or not.

Unions are intended for industries where a worker doesn't have a marketplace of options as there is a single or just a few employers (e.g. Hollywood, teachers, coal mining towns, hospital staff, etc.). Unionizing at Google makes no sense, as there are thousands of tech companies hiring engineers in the valley -- engineers can "collectively bargain" with Google by simply leaving and working somewhere "better".

The reality is that Google is an easy place to work relative to how much people get paid. People don't want to leave a cushy job for one where they would have to work harder for their money, so instead, they are trying other means to have their cake and eat it too.
https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/google-workers-demanding...

Union's official announcement
Pursuing research in different fields (especially computational physics, bioinformatics) in personal capacity.

I had once asked the same question to a scientist friend who actually wanted to switch back from research to engineering to find some practical implementation of the things he had been working. I guess it was partly because organizational research does confine you within certain bounds and most of the times its taxpayer money so you have that in the back of your head to make sure you do not abuse it and actually perform relevant research which is "useful". This is why I have explicitly mentioned "personal capacity".
What do you mean by profit going to shareholders? Alphabet doesn't have a dividend.
Googler here, these articles are literally the first I've heard of it. No internal emails, rabblerousing, or any kind of comms about it, and it seems as though the union discussed doesn't actually exist yet. Seems a bit odd (and bad reporting), but we'll see where it goes.

After watching how a mechanics union did absolutely nothing while CEOs ripped apart my Dad's pension and put him through hell, I have a bit of a dim view on this sort of thing to begin with.
> I bemoan the modern sanitization of every single corner of the internet.

There's plenty of corners of the internet that are anything but sanitized and will resist any form of sanitization. It's occupiers will probably choose that particular hill to die on too. 4chan would be a good (if you can use that word...) example.

> Whatever happened to freedom of speech? Why are so many people today willing to throw freedom of speech out the window?

Freedom of speech still exists. Case-in-point, the website in question still exists no matter how uncomfortable it makes me personally. Freedom of speech does not protect anybody from the consequences of that freedom.

People are much less tolerant of speech that offends them. I think this is a good thing, because many minorities were already often offended before but lacked the power to speak up. What you're seeing now isn't the erosion of freedom of speech, but the strengthening of it in the face of robust and diverse views.
Hopefully they can improve protections for whistleblowers and employees speaking out about ethical concerns.
Yes.

The journalist in your example should not be accessory to a crime.

If Manning asked for gloves to hide her fingerprints, Assange should have answered "send me the documents when you have them, but I can't help you hiding your fingerprints"

If you imagine the hack being another crime, maybe it's clearer.

Imagine Manning told Assange she could get the files but in order to get them she had to kill the guards at the door and asked Assange if he had a gun.
If I may add:

4. Some email clients still break links in emails

5. Proper links require HTML; otherwise you rely on the email client recognizing a URL as such (which brings us back to 4).

6. The email might mistakenly get recognized as spam.
Yes, software should be copyrighted. Ideas should not be patentable.
Right,

https://microsoft.github.io/microsoft-ui-xaml/

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/driverkit

https://www.khronos.org/registry/SYCL/

https://developer.nvidia.com/optix

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/ProgrammingAndScripting/...

I could keep adding a couple more, but I think you got the point by now.
It's the act of maximizing profits by segmenting the market that creates artificially bad products that end up being the mainstream because of the price difference. If the companies responsible for making these decisions were optimizing just a tad bit more for practicality and usability rather than just profit, ECC would be the standard and that would be the end of that. Similar to how a lot of luxury and non-luxury cars will have seemingly essential and cheap equipment only available as part of an expensive options package - the cost of producing and installing the extra equipment is a mere fraction of the total package cost, a large majority will end up buying the package anyway (and 100% would if money was no object). One might argue that this practice is part and parcel of modern industrial markets, and is almost fair - prices are arbitrary and consumers get to pay for the value they get out of something, there is no optimal, moral way to determine what someone's margins should be, yadda yadda. In my opinion, usually the market will choose what are acceptable margins on a given product and/or service, but with 2 thousand dollar parking sensors and double-the-price ECC memory, with artifical segmentation, I'm paying not for the manufacturing and delivery of a product with a feature I want, but instead I'm having to pay for the opportunity of being able to have the product with the features I want + the manufacturing and delivery.
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Agree with most,

>2) Coke, a sugary drink, is largely kept alive by smart marketing, that involves mostly advertising in the end.

Not sure I agree. I haven't seen any Coke Cola Ads for years, not online digital Ads and I rarely consume any traditional media. But I will still buy Coke Cola every once in a while.

They are also on all of the convenience store with decent positional shelf space or visual merchandising. Something I learned that no one on HN actually knows anything about during the discussions of App Store.

Edit: All of my friends can taste the difference between Coke and Pepsi. It is just different. So I was surprised to read comments and youtube video about "blind tasting" on the two. No, I didn't drink Coke because of Ads, I drink it because it taste better. (And some people prefer Pepsi )
The buyers premium in this case is 21%.
Well if the rest of the tech industry can copy faang Leetcode interviews, at the very least also start copying this union initiative. For once I’d like to see copy-cat culture not completely suck.

No more of the silly fridge full of beers and ping pong tables, copy the real stuff please - salary, 20% time, union, and we’ll study for your Leetcode, no problemo.
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That would only be the case if there was zero friction and cost to sponsoring a visa and everyone in the world was willing to move to the Bay Area. Neither of those are true - just think about restrictions on H1B visas such as minimum salary levels and a limited total number. And think about how much more money someone would have to offer you before you'd consider moving to the other side of the world where you don't know anybody.
Except for the 2nd point (labor law), MIT grad that moved back to their home country would work, but most people in Latin America and Africa graduated from local university that are not as good as US or European universities (or at least not recognized as such). So this is not going to create a big equalizer.
The assumption is that the employees will be terminated, fired, let go, or quit because creating unions is really hard in the USA, especially in industry which has no precedent.
As I understand it this technology has developed because the government (David Cameron) essentially banned onshore wind by removing the subsidies for it.

They changed the rules back again last year though [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/02/uk-governme...
Microsoft job listing hints at Sun Valley UI overhaul for Windows
And even MISRA C isn't enough to assure the absence of undefined behaviour.

C is a tricky beast to tame.
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Let's not jump to conclusions with Jack Ma. It could all be explained by an illness.
Less profits would go to shareholders, which could lower its stock price, but that doesn't mean the company would produce less. More share of profits going to employees could increase productivity and social good to the world. I'm not calling that result inevitable, but possible and up to the company leadership.
But on the other hand, if you knew you have a year to live would you save for retirement? Life is always a balance between now and the future
Oh they do something, they help destroy a company’s ability to compete. Take a look at unionization of the auto industry in Detroit back in the 70s and 80s which basically killed our lead in the industry and gave it to Japan and Korean companies on a platter.
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I've read that the wind is more consistent in the ocean.
Not everyone is able to stick to a schedule. This can be for internal reasons such as akrasia as the sibling comment mentions or for external reasons due to being in chaotic environment and not being able to change that.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but usually the people who know about the union before it's announced are those who are understood to support the idea & are unlikely to go to management about it :)
With a nice cup of tea, served to him by Putin personally, presumably…
Hum... 5 sub queries? Nope, I'm talking about bigger stuff.
> The idea of running graphical code on multiple machines, then displaying the results locally

What does this mean? It's like a remote desktop or something?
The implementation was only privacy-preserving in an idealistic World in which governments wouldn't mandate uploading of the beacon keys.

It's another example of the persistent, naive belief amongst technologists that clever implementation can trump legislation.
No I was just hoping it was connected somehow. I only found a single mention of .NET:

> F* provides a facility to specify interfaces to external modules that are implemented elsewhere. For example, operations that perform file input/output are implemented by the operating system and made available to F* programs via the underlying framework, e.g., .NET or OCaml.
Hah. I remember shopping for a wireless router and seeing things like “shoppers who bought this item also bought...”. Yes, we all buy three slightly different models of routers. Good job Amazon.
>I think a similar system would be a reasonable compromise here as well.

How would something like you're suggesting work?

Under what circumstances would it be appropriate to moderate and under what other circumstances would it be inappropriate? Just as importantly, who gets to decide what's appropriate/inappropriate?

And to whom would this apply? Section 230 applies to everyone, including you, me, HackerNews and your great aunt Sally.

If we limit section 230's applicability, who decides where it should apply and where it shouldn't?

I'm not objecting to your suggestion, I'd just like to understand how you see such a 'compromise' being implemented.

I'd welcome your thoughts!
Oh, great point! I forgot about that app, and indeed it would have saved the day.

(Ultimately, I decided I wanted at least one of my monitors landscape anyway... I realized this the first time I wanted to watch a video program, ha ha.)
Twitch has a low latency mode https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/low-latency-video?language=...
Hollywood makes a valid comparison for being nearby, but the more meaningful comparisons are to more unionized countries like in Europe or America in the past, where unions increased productivity, safety, and living standards.
I've never been in a union, but I have 2 strong impressions of them from friends.

One friend was an electrician, he enjoyed working for a union because it gave him extra freedoms in his work.

The second friends father worked in management for a mine that used union labor. They went through an ugly labor strike where their windows were shot out of their house and their lives felt threatened.

I'm of mixed opinion, but the second scenario weighs heavily.
Ever heard of “life hacks”?
Fully functional?

I have expectations...