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This is still a violation of free speech. Some people abused that right for their own purposes. You will always have such people.

To compromise is the reaction any troll by original definition aims for. And it didn't even work to achieve any goal.

So, you have banned some controversial users. What now?
You could spin that the other way: "wow, even countries that have _actual laws_ against offensive speech think that Twitter's ban of Trump was unreasonable - Twitter must be overreacting to what he actually said."
> "Functional Programming reduces the surface area for Bugs" is a strong claim and can be proven

Is there really a formal proof or Software Engineering paper that proves this?

I was told this in my FP class in university, but it pretty much sold to me as gospel.

In practice I agree with the statement - I certainly feel there's an inherent "cleanliness" to FP.

But I also feel that the argument is not only about program correctness; many people ultimately conflate it with developer productivity. And here's where I feel that things fall apart a bit: I feel as if sometimes it's much quicker to do things with state, so maybe the time you save debugging is time you add elsewhere?
Don't worry, the "hacked material" rule on twitter will prevent anything derived from this being posted on twitter.

Right???
Weev when to jail for the exact same thing under the CFAA.
Oh dear :o
Incompetent criminals are still criminals? Botched crimes don't lead to lenient punishments.
Agree, lots of unknowns ahead. My response was simply to the comment above asking for citations whether it is even technically possible to run the grid at such high penetration.

Someone made the point that it's a rather daunting materials design challenge to make PV panels: They must withstand 30 years of water, heat, salt and UV light with no degradation, and then trivially separate into their constituent components at recycling time. We are definitely gearing up to create an enormous recycling headache 30 years from now.
Regardless of how you feel about free speech:
Apple and Google being able to dictate what software is popular/acceptable/usable and what software is not is 100% not ok.

Dump your smartphone or if you must have one use a pinephone.
Agreed that the problem looks like 'fail open', but there is the additional possibility that they had no plan for this failure mode at all beyond timing out.

In that context, and with folks with no regard for consequences in charge, an emergency decision to allow everything seems plausible.
Manufacturing isn't free.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/solar-energy-isnt...

> Making solar cells requires a lot of energy. Fortunately, because these cells generate electricity, they pay back the original investment of energy; most do so after just two years of operation, and some companies report payback times as short as six months.

While the above article is from 2014, it likely still applies today. I would be interested to know how much manufacturing processes have changed since then.

The other big thing the article points out is the toxic chemicals and toxic process used to produce solar panels.
> German Chancellor Angela Merkel objected to the decisions, saying on Monday that lawmakers should set the rules governing free speech and not private tech companies.

This is not about free speech, this is about who holds the power of regulating it.
Solar didn't magically just appear on the market at a lower price point than carbon-based resources though, it had to go through several iterations which required significant investment capital. This is usually where government agencies like DOE leverage their capital investment programs because private business aren't interested in paying for the R&D to solve those kinds of big problems without a guaranteed success.

Solar is only becoming cheaper today because of the research and capital that was put into developing the technology, not because it's inherently cleaner than coal. To your point, based purely on the market forces (i.e. excluding carbon taxes) coal is still a very viable option. And if the government is motivated to migrate businesses off of dirty energy resources, it also has a motivation to help develop alternatives that the market will accept.

Solyndra[0] was one example of a company that received government support to develop solar technology and became notorious for defrauding the government in the process.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra
This assumes it was by design, likely someone unfamiliar with the security implications thought they were improving the customer experience by not failing hard.
You are supposed to debloat all the malware that comes with your phone, courtesy of the manufacturer. If you are not capable of that, or don't care enough to have someone do it for you, you'll have to get used to ads. Annoying ads are considered a feature on stock Android builds.
> I think a private business should be able to chose their customers and decline business for any reason

A private business should not be able to turn down your business because of the color of your skin, your race, your political background, ...
From this day forward, I will refer to this sort of attack as a PiTM attack. Not much you can do to stop me I'm afraid.
If one ever catches on, people will start wanting to use it for more than it was designed for, and it will end up being extended to the same extent USB has

We used to have the "slow port/fast port" dichotomy with USB vs FireWire, but people were too cheap to pay for the fast port and eventually the slow port got fast enough to replace the fast port.
As the article says free speech is regulated by law and shall not be restringed by a corporate decision. Usually free speech is incompatible when it offends an individual, and it will be restringed only after a judicial process takes place. The issue is that social networks have no right to do it.
1. Early adopters pays premium. Especially true for technology that gets exponential cheaper. Rich countries such as Germany, Denmark and California pay R&D for rest of us.

2. If not renewables or other form of non-fossil fuel, the price of energy would be increasing anyway. We are reaching peak of fossil fuel production. Fracking make it cheap temporarily, but overall we are depleting cheap fields and would be forced to use ones which are harder to access.
Not only that, Merkel's party is a significant driver in laws and regulations that reduce user internet anonymity.

Considering that multiple politicians voiced this opinion at surprisingly similar time this seems like some coordinated PR thing. They probably just realised that the same could happen to them and that they might have their communication channels cut off when they inevitably try to break up the big US tech giants
Kind of like classic cars and guitars, eh?
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"the media". You're not being honest, you either havent used the platform or are deliberately lying here. Either way a platform that freeley allows the organization of violent mobs has no place, and neither does anybody who supports it.
I think truck stops and middle of nowhere are different though. Truck stops have other truckers. Some have facilities and cameras.

But yeah, I think most truck jackings are targeted and often involve insiders, or occasionally a driver leaves the truck unsecured and someone drives off but that’s rare.
It's worth remembering that a large amount of the reason that's impractical is because society shifts to expect the new thing. In turn, part of the reason society gets to expect the new thing much more instantly nowadays is because past new things started including “always the newest by default”, so it became an active choice to want to keep anything around or not instantly change your behavior to match. I'm not sure how much of this is ‘actual’ values versus power conflicts versus broken equilibria though I know at least one influence was the rolling infosecpocalypse.

There's a post elsewhere on “The Amish, and Strategic Norms around Technology” which has some not-bad short description of ways this isn't universal, and potential for application to current-day (potentially America-centric, etc.) society, without going into too much depth: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/36Dhz325MZNq3Cs6B/the-amish-...
> German Chancellor Angela Merkel objected to the decisions, saying on Monday that lawmakers should set the rules governing free speech and not private tech companies.

This is about who gets to make the decisions, not what the decisions are.
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My question is-

Looking at this dump, it appears to just be URLS. If the site doesn't exist anymore than the URLs point to nothing.

What's actually exposed? What am I missing here?
While I understand that Twilio is probably not at fault for the actual leak, I'm curious if they gave Parler some time to migrate/shift before cutting them off from their services.

It's easy not to care since Parler is the "bad guy" here, but I do think that Internet infrastructure companies need to give a reasonable heads-up before pulling the rug under business customers.
I don't know which social media platforms use AWS to any critical extent, but I can't imagine them ejecting a big name like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc over "finding dozens of posts on the service which it said encouraged violence".
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That seems incredibly unlikely. If anything such a thing was far more likely in their time than the present.

In any case though, if this hypothetical is not hyperbole (and I still suspect it is), it would seem prudent to remedy ASAP.
I just can’t help but laugh that this service existed and to become a verified user (or whatever they called it) you had to upload a front and back scan of your driver’s license?? And then this happens and people who stormed the capitol are whining about being labeled terrorists and unable to fly home. 2021 has sucked but the fallout almost makes up for it in this case.
>He never saved more than $6,000 a year

He started with $2,000 and was saving $2,000 per year...in 1970. That is a lot. If you are able to do that as a 22-year-old entering the job market, good for you. It's unrealistic for the vast majority of people.

The average savings rate in the US is about 7%. "Bob" managed 30%+ in the most important (read: earliest) years, allowing it to compound for a long time. His savings was front-loaded. This is not normal. Most people don't start saving anything of significance until they are into their 40s.

>And you missed the point that this is the worst you could do.

You missed my point that this isn't nearly "the worst you could do". This fictional person started with incredibly privileged circumstances: A substantial windfall, apparently no debt, apparently a great job straight out of college, that allowed them to invest significant funds very early in their career.

The unrealistic investing scenario is countered by the unrealistic saving ability. Not a particularly valuable thought experiment.

And, once again, I don't disagree with the premise: save what you can and invest it in a diversified portfolio and allow it to compound over your life. This is the best option for 99.9% of the population. But, it also doesn't guarantee a comfortable retirement for that 99.9%, which is scary.
Many businesses today still grapple with the decision to fail-open or fail-closed for things they build in-house.
> Terrorism is an all-encompassing evil because it aims to undermine democracy.

I can agree with this part. But it seems to me that the primary method by which it undermines democracy is our [over]reaction to it, like an autoimmune disorder. To be glib about it,

Terrorism: exists

Democracy: undermines self

If the goal of terrorism is to undermine democracy, reacting by shifting towards totalitarianism is self-defeating.
People should have legal rights to contest bans of any kind, plus some controls to make sure you don't lose your private data (e.g. emails, chats) attached to your account when banned.

We don't want to make it expensive to moderate, but false positives should not go unresolved. This tips the balance a bit more in favour of consumers.
I think learning Scala is a bit of a waste of time, but I don’t know everyone’s stack. Maybe it’s a west coast bubble, but serverless seems to be the most popular choice for new ETL stacks even if the rest the cloud tech stack isn’t serverless. AWS tools like kinesis, glue (pyspark), step functions, pipelines, lambdas, etc.

If you are working in that domain, being able to use the CDK in TypeScript becomes way more important than being able to build a Hadoop cluster from scratch using Scala.
Of course, they couldn't compete in the competently run micro blogging market because mastodon instances are free and have no ads. Instead they competed with twitter in the incompetently run micro blogging market.
That’s a great suggestion. Thanks for sharing.

Did you encounter problems with removing M for Measurable in that case?
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In the city of Toronto you cannot purchase (reasonably price) groceries without purchasing from Lowlaw or Metro. Canadian consumers don't really realize this however because of the various brand names - Independent City Market, No Frills, Fortino's etc..

The amount of control Loblaw has over the market is astounding.

Try finding pasta sauce at a Loblaw owned store. There will be 1-2 non house brands, the rest are all Loblaw owned brands.

Or walk into a Wal Mart and check the price of coffee. Significantly more expensive than Loblaw because Wal Mart Canada doesn't have the purchasing power the Westons have.

Fairly typical in Canada. Duopoloies / Oligopolies across most large industries that are heavily protected by the government (banking, telecom, air travel, grocery, insurance)
I bounced off of Python a few times before finally taking to it (at a time when I had no choice). I honestly believe that this situation has improved since Python 3.5 or so, purely on the basis of improved standards of documentation, including many more libraries adding type hints to their public interfaces.

I've recently been back to Clojure, and it's the same old aggravation again. It seems that, oftentimes, the only way to know what arguments a function is prepared to accept is to already know what arguments a function is prepared to accept.

I don't want to come across as being too down on dynamic typing - I'm currently in the process of trying to get my company over to Python by any means necessary. What I really want to challenge is the idea, popular in many dynamic typing circles, that static types just get in the way. They can also serve to communicate essential information. If you aren't communicating that information through type annotations, then it's absolutely essential that you do it by some other means.
Was it really a comprehensive data breach? Or they just got a list of URLs. Because some claimed it's fake news.
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Boss owns two companies.

Staff at company A have negotiated a profit share / performance bonus.

Boss directs company A to provide services “below cost” to company B. Company A now has no profit to share; it has been funnelled elsewhere to avoid paying the staff their bonus.
Both Macron and Merkel seem to be concerned that private companies are deciding who gets an online presence, not an elected government and/or courts:

> German Chancellor Angela Merkel objected to the decisions, saying on Monday that lawmakers should set the rules governing free speech and not private tech companies.
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I started working (part time as a student) at this small [1] company back in April when the virus just hit which lead to a rocky introduction to the systems that are in place. The other developer is going into retirement in about two months and, thus far, the company has had trouble finding an appropriate replacement.

The system is a large website built with AngularJS and SailsJS. The codebase is very large (at least in my unexperienced eyes) which would not be an issue had it been properly documented, most components do not have a single comment in them (except for code which has been commented out) and also lack any external documentation. To add on to the mess, the code style is also not very reader friendly (cryptic variable names, unnamed constants etc.).

I see the fact that the above mentioned employee is going into retirement as an opportunity to "do things right" and start over by rewriting/porting the website, writing proper documentation along the way, and upgrading certain technologies (e.g. JS -> TS and SVN -> Git) but I feel that I'm in way over my head. I'm about to finish my Bachelors this summer and plan on starting on a Masters immediately.

I feel competent enough in writing software but not in creating a feasible architecture for such a large project, so my question is; how should I proceed? I think that the changes that I've come up with would be a net positive for the company and would make the life of future developers at the company easier (that is if the implementation is good enough). Could you point me to any ressources that might be of help in my situation?

[1] There are no more than 4 IT employees where only I and another one are developers
The same reasoning applies to "single letter variable names are fine".

Humans aren't computers. They have a finite number of concepts they can keep in their head. Using existing conventions leads to better understanding as it allow folks to get through a discussion without having to backtrack as often.
Would it be any better if it was sent to Wikileaks and published there?
Bike shops absolutely need to turn themselves into workshops, in other words increase hourly rates until repairs become a worthwhile business on their own. Even if only because internet.

The idea "I could do some bike work on my own, so bike work can't be expensive" has to die, simple as that. People can pop open a beer at home just fine, nobody expects bars to sell beer at a similar price.

If shops insist on offering workshop services at a loss for bikes bought at the establishment, they are free to offer huge rebates as a hardware sales argument.
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You’re right: Parler’s negligence led to user data being taken. Parler should be punished for this.
If the payout were too small, nobody would bother researching vulnerabilities and claiming payment while following the rules. The fact that people are doing it suggests the market is working (and perhaps the payment is even high considering how much participation is going on).
People the "good people" disagree with politically and culturally are equivalent to nazis, and it's ok for them to have anything bad happen to them
According to Wikipedia[1] GtkFileChooser is from 2.4 in 2004. So that was designed more than 16 years ago. Not sure when Windows got the feature, but previews could have been thinkable then and machines powerful enough to handle it with some usable threshold.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK
I think the extracting of the data will definitely go to court as a violation of the CFAA. The publishing of the data might also fall under the DMCA but it sounds less plausible to me. I'm not a lawyer so take this with a grain of salt.
There's a surprising amount of insecure code in the wild; and naive engineers who are willingly ignorant in their security practices.

I'd assume that Parler's engineers motivations had more to do with politics than providing a secure platform for protecting dissidents under duress.

(Or, if we look at the history of a recent major war, the mediocre engineers working for the other side thought they were the good guys.)
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Yes, because "dozens" represents different percentages of content on Parler vs much much bigger platforms like Twitter. Parler is filled with content that encourages violence, while Twitter is used for all kinds of things.
The ramifications of this will absolutely set a record for the future as the inevitable reverse will happen.

People are forgetting that if they're ok with this sort of behavior now, it'll be difficult for them to argue-against or prevent the same behavior when their opposites are in control.
> Apple appears to have only implemented 16KB pages and nothing else, presumably to minimize silicon cost/maximize performance

I think it is because, due to quirks of the interaction of virtual address resolutions with cache addressing, it allows Apple to use a larger L1 cache.
I'm the author of this. It was certainly surprising to learn that a lot of what AVs are doing right now is limited by the amount of power available to the computers. It didn't make it into the article in full, but we were told that in general more computing power means detecting and classifying more object types, tracking those objects over longer periods of time, and doing more detailed motion prediction and planning across longer time horizons. They were explicit that the power they can squeeze out of the vehicle's alternator is currently a significant limiting factor to the performance of the system.
Or maybe self-host.
I don’t think there is a perfect analogy. They are being given a venue (their profile) a distribution (users; eyes of consumers) in the millions. Maybe if Times Square allowed and played seditious content with advertising in it that would be apt?
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"researchers".

Imagine what they'd be called if this was Reddit, Twitter or a non-conservative site they'd hacked.
Only if it the data was government / private sector data, not citizen messages
Yes, such a thing exists!

https://medium.com/greener-together/the-solid-state-wind-ene...
>HN needs to live in the real world and learn what most people retire with

Most people retire with barely anything, I don't think that's disputed. Doesn't mean that $1M is a lot of money to retire on.