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>> What would you recommend people to put on their website when they genuinely would want to provide a search engine that plants trees?

Everything except lies. Simple.

PS: I think the idea of a search engine like that is great (assuming the tree planting is done in a responsible way without destroy ecosystems). But I don't think implying to be privacy friendly when you're not really is great.
> laws like "deplatforming is forbidden unless ordered by a proper court"

Courts censoring speakers would run afoul of the First Amendment.

This is the social media is a utility argument. I’m not sympathetic. If Instagram and WhatsApp weren’t under Facebook, and Vine hadn’t been quashed by Twitter, we would have real competition between platforms. And utilities tend to be heavily politically exposed and controlled.
If you like some practical project I can highly recommend Day tracing in one weekend by Peter Shirley.
Where do you get the information that 70mio people support capitol’s events? That sounds way too high.
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Microsoft knows what they both do, but ain't saying. Maybe they have the same contract or each syndidation partner has a unique one. Probably the latter. Trying getting a syndication partnership where you don't agree to pass on some part of the IP; I've not heard of anyone getting that but anecdotes is all I have. Microsoft (or Google in the case of their syndication partners) are not going to tell us.
Where/how might I find a good pronunciation reference that would cover this construct/use?

English equivalents not necessary; I don't mind picking the appropriate tidbit out of a fragment of speech in a video for example.

I could just as easily stare at an IPA pronunciation for a bit too.
check out oceanhero.today similar concept removes plastic from the ocean.
Statements like this requires a huge asterisk, in that it depends very heavily on where you are from and what's your background in general.

This certainly isn't true for someone like me.
I use "cuttle", but someone I know calls it kubec-tal (Q-beck-tal), which is the weirdest of all the variants.
For me it read like somebody is trying to emulate "The Phoenix Project" but massively lacking experience, empathy and about everything necessary to be (good) in such a position.

I wasn't sure if I was reading a satirical take on a lot of grandstanding out there. But reading the comments here the author probably means it to be taken at face value.
I dunno, there are a lot of countries famous for their education which are nevertheless not ideal places to go.

Culture might be a more important aspect than education. Education is relatively easy to transplant (c.f. China & the rest of Asia, or the US stealing many of Germany's good scientists after WWII, or the Brits leaching French expertise after the revolution). Culture is really hard to transplant because nobody knows which are the good bits and which are the bad bits.

I'll throw these two in because I they are an interesting and relevant example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Isambard_Brunel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel
I was feeling nosey about this so looked at their open roles. Golang, postgres, cassandra, scylla, nodejs, vue, angular and wordpress all got a mention
The video where the woman was shot trying to enter the corridor leading to where where politicians were hiding has two people trying to smash down the door to get to them.

There is also a picture of a fully masked person carrying zip ties designed for tying hands and feet.

There is another video where a police officer is being crushed against a door.

A police officer died from injuries sustained from, if I recall correctly, being hit by pipes.

The police had found and siezed Molotov cocktails.

There was also a pipe bomb found at the DNC and RNC. (People were saying Mike Pense is a traitor, if you weren't aware)

These events aren't just some unorganised people taking selfies and were widely reported.

Which news outlets did you follow that didn't mention this?
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Now I'm genuinely curious what the modern equivalent of education by phone menu might be.

There's just so much information *everywhere* that we just aren't in isolated little universes anymore.
Are you in Europe by any chance? We haven't finished setting up load balancing yet and the Europe server is getting hit really hard right now.

The dapp sample was blocked because it was mistaken for a phishing attempt (it's the Uniswap frontend) and Namecheap required us to block the link. Sloppy of us not to change the link to an unblocked example, we'll do that on Monday. In the meantime, here's a dapp sample: https://marstorage.hns.siasky.net/
Perhaps unfortunately, 50 years might not be long enough for generational turnover in US government. Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell are both 78 years old. Nancy Pelosi is 80. Senators Diane Feinstein and Chuck Grassley are 87.
No, how politicians need to act. BLM is a symptom to a systemic problem not rooted in politics explicitly.
He was told to downsize, which means there's someone above him not owning it.
I think it is the case, and what we're seeing online is chaff and noise and not reflective of what most American adults believe. Maybe it's Russian bots or whatever. Or children from Reddit. Or Europeans trying to dictate what they think American politics should be about. But it is true that the one thing that we (American adults) more often agree on than not are the rights spelled out in the Bill of Rights.
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Same. I was also hoping to find something that doesn't require me to have a credit card, only accepts USD, and *has* to go through a third party.

Flattr uses credit cards exclusively, Liberapay only uses Stripe, Patreon a host of third parties but no direct transfers, and I have checked out the rest.

Why can't I just transfer the amount I want, when I want, directly to another bank without an intermediary? I'm fine with the donation subscription service knowing how much and to whom I'm donating and taking out but why does it have to talk to so many other services I haven't picked or agreed to interact with?
Global warming is a topic that no one understand and hence will never come to an end. We all justify industrialization, yes? But the same is condemned for for promoting global warming. Which one should we choose? A debate that will never end, right? Read the following essay please
https://varsitypapers.com/global-warming-argumentative-essay...
I think “speech at scale” should be defined differently that normal free speech. The societal impact of speech that is instantly broadcast to tens of millions of people is substantially different than the same speech being broadcast to 5-10 people.
Or he could have asked the team if they preferred to take a pay cut. Oops.
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Does the model predict or account for the Oklahoma Federal building bombing (1996, 168 people killed)?
I read a lot of criticism of Daniel's approach in this discussion.

People don't like the fact that he wrote an app and tried to deal with the problem objectively. But, really, how is this so different to any other objective approach?

Here in the UK there is a significant body of legislation around the process of making people redundant, so it would have worked differently, and particularly it will work differently for larger numbers of redundancies.

There is always some sort of objective scoring criteria. For larger redundancies these are agreed with employee reps as part of the consultation period. You might be able to get away with less rigour if you're only making a handful of people redundant. Regardless, those scoring criteria and the scores associated with them are going to end up in some sort of model, which might be as simple as an Excel spreadsheet, but there's nothing to stop you implementing it in code. The model is generally published as part of a consultation pack so that staff can understand how they are being evaluated, and provide feedback via their employee rep.

The end result is that the people sorted at the bottom, however many you need, are made redundant. It isn't nice. But it is objective, and it's important that it be so, because that's as close as you can get to any sense of "fairness" - not that it's going to feel fair to the people losing their jobs. You have to be able to justify these decisions, to demonstrate that you've gone through a fair and objective process to arrive at them, because you might land in court if somebody challenges your decisions.

It's not nice, and it's always going to seem heartless to some people. But that's part of leadership: sooner or later you are going to have to make decisions that some (or even many) people don't like, and that you don't like either. In many of these cases there will be no perfect choice and no perfect outcome. There is no avoiding it. If you aren't willing to deal with this, don't become a leader.
> Why does this "agreed-upon pronunciation" take precedence over the "agreed-upon pronunciation" of English?

Excellent question. I don't know. People just assume that precedence as axiomatic (they just agree upon it), because it seems to work... well, easier with? More efficient? That's a subject for a study, I guess.

Of course by the in-group. People invent their own languages just to keep other peoples out of their culture or subculture. Since centuries. Another subject for a study. Knock yourself out, do the research and write a paper.
Its a myth that the whole chain is needed. Comes from BTC where you need the chain to recreate all transactions. It has zero practical use. If you would consider the current state of a blockchain to be "wrong" but everyone agreed to move forward anyway you may as well call it "correct" because by definition the majority decides what is right and what not in these systems. So you dont really need to validate the whole chain. All the splits and hard forks are well known and you can only agree or not use that particular chain. The accrual process of validating yourself is moot. Its not like you could find something new by running the exact same code thousands of other ran over that data before you.

Plenty newer DTLs have ditched the chain validation process completely and you can start at any point in time with the ledger state of that time and start going forward to the present. Whether that is years or seconds doesn't really matter. It all depend of whether you have an accentual use case for historical transaction data or not.

This is really important because second generation blockchains have way higher transaction throughput, integrated decentral exchanges (DEX) and other advanced feature that requires way more storage. Some already have reached uncompressed sizes of several TBs for the complete history.

See technical documentation for the XRPL https://xrpl.org/ledger-history.html
Every time I read anything about Konrad Zuse, I find another thing to astonish me.
As the CTO he was in charge.

It's absolutely fine to face à situation that is new and that you feel you lack knowledge and experience on. But as a leader and the guy in charge you should not refuse to deal with it, you need to find a way and people to advise you. Don't think that CEOs, Generals, Heads of States, etc know everything, no they know how to seek information and advice but the final decision and responsibility is on them.
I haven't looked too closely at Lit source code recently so I couldn't really comment on that but, from a high level, they differ in the sense that lit uses render function (like react) that mixes HTML/JS whereas synergy separates the two between view/template. Neither is better or worse of course, its all about trade-offs and preferences. Lit elements are described with classes whereas synergy uses factory functions. Lit uses Shadow DOM by default, whereas synergy makes it optional.
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I'm not sure I understand the way it works then.

I was assuming that if I run a node serving content, I do not deal with curating that content at all. I just offer my bandwidth/storage for compensation, like a CDN.

I don't want to be involved in curation or moderation at all, I just don't want to be held liable in case I inadvertently serve something that is illegal in my jurisdiction.
I assumed that it was an internal promotion. If it was an outside hire, yikes. Although to be fair, we don't know how much time he was given to make the decision.
That's easy. Tolerance, is willingness to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them [1]. People who carve themselves an exemption to not accept some behaviour or beliefs, are literally contradicting this definition. Yet, at the same time they pretend to be tolerant. There is a word for that in the English language: hypocrisy.

So, how do tolerant people fight the intolerant? Maybe, we have some similar precedents from the past. Turning the other cheek principle [2] and nonresistance movement [3] have worked out quite well for Gandhi. Educate, explain, suffer injustice, yet, stay true to your principles. That's the way to the better future for humanity.

(I'm not claiming to be a fully tolerant person myself. I'm just calling out hypocrites who pretend to be ones)

[1]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/toleranc...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_the_other_cheek

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonresistance
Not an American but here's my two cents: I know it's about the event happened few days ago, but based on what I've learned on the other side of the Earth during these years, I think overall, Censorship in any shape or form, when encouraged, will eventually develop itself to become "Government Enforced". I guess we all know how that goes.

I know the problem is complex, but I think the solution to the problem was based on basic human impulses (And very American if I'd say so myself. Sorry), because simply deplatform the app will not actually convince it's users to leave it, it does not educate those people about what's right and wrong, and it opened a huge playground for the conspiracy theorist to play around.

All around, I think deplatforming is a bad solution to this problem.

EDIT: Clarify: I'm not here to support Parler (not even a bit), and I understand the deplatforming was for the immediate issue. However, I hope those who involved in the decision making could look for a better solution that would convince people to claim down and be rational. That's all.
No, you are so totally wrong. When I want to book an appointment with my doctor, I use an app hosted on Amazon. When I am in lockdown and I want to ask a friend to bring me food, I use WhatApp. When I need to request a tax refund, I use the Tax Dept app that is hosted on Google Cloud. These are not companies anymore - they are critical civil infrastructure. If you don't believe me, just try not using any of them for a month. Imagine if the water company shuts off all service to your house and there is no alternative. They are a private company - should they have no responsibility to give you water or sewage. Such a narrow view...
Very interesting. Thanks for posting. Does anyone subscribe to print copies of history today? I am tempted to sign up.
Congratulations to the hive of villainy, embezzlement, and political propaganda on incidentally creating the largest trove of human knowledge on the backs of unpaid and underappreciated editors.
The Economist has published an article [1] that discusses what it sees as increasing scrutiny of social media networks. In one paragraph, it says:

... it is hard to avoid the sense that the social-media firms have reached a point of no return. Disquiet about the power and reach of social media is not confined to political partisans. Britain, Australia, Singapore, Brazil and the EU have passed, or are mooting, new rules designed to regulate social media. The banning of the world’s most powerful politician will raise the temperature even further. The firms’ in-house enforcement policies—which are spotty and inconsistently applied—will come under even more intense scrutiny.

I found the article to be well-reasoned and thoughtful, so am posting it here because I think that it might be of interest to other HN users.

[1] https://www.economist.com/international/2021/01/10/the-expul...
> Who is the people in charge of keeping unauthorized people out of the capitol building. The police, or the army?

The National Guard is not the Army, it's a dual-purpose force that is both a reserve for the Army and a reserve for civil authorities during emergencies including civil disorder.

> By sending the army what we are saying is that there existed a creditable scenario that the people attacking could have taken control of the US government and ruled over the nation.

No, even if we were talking about the Army proper, an existential threat to the government is not the criteria under the Insurrection Act for their use to disperse insurgents.

The militia, armed forces, or both may be used (among other scenarios authorized in law) against “any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” which “opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws”. 10 USC Sec 253.
With Wikipedia, you very soon develop a sense of gauging maturity of the article just from a quick glance. More often than not, the editors would even put maturity warnings for you.

If something looks dubious you can even dive into revision list to spot the problems.

This is more than can be said for nearly any other source out there.
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That's fair. You might want to highlight the positive aspects in your comment, which right now are implied so it comes off as negative.
The pillars are there to save lives during a crash.

The lane assist and brake assist - along with adaptive cruise control - are great systems that also increase safety, if used properly. The difference in fatigue alone that these systems contrubute to is (anecdotally from my experience) night and day.

I believe that the improved safety is worth the increasing complexity of maintenance.
The clear difference is that (for now) Taiwan acts as a separate country while Basque is not doing this.
There's a large body of academic research on this, and many, many failures to learn from, including many that cost lives or cost hundreds of millions of dollars. In practice, there are lots and lots of bugs in any C program of any complexity. That's why flight system software is written in Ada, not C.

In the military where you need to verify correctness of security controls or answer questions like "does my missile guidance program terminate", you can't use C or Assembly.

To achieve what you're talking about with C or Assembly, you need this kind of process: https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

To achieve it with a dynamic language like Python...well, you can't (and shouldn't even attempt it).

The trouble is, nobody has the budget for that. Not even most military groups. So instead of relying on human process, we leverage machine-driven verification through the use of type systems, provers, SAT solvers, contracts, randomized testing and other academically sound techniques for quality assurance.

> From my experience Haskell seems to make easy things hard.

Haskell isn't designed to make undergraduate programming exercises easy. It's designed to make hard programming problems tractable. If you have an easy problem you shouldn't use Haskell. Hell, if you have a hard problem you probably shouldn't use Haskell.
This seems very hyperbolic. I honestly think 99% of Americans are too lazy to even show up to the "civil war".
The author was promoted to CTO, he worked for the company before. Given that the company has less then two dozend people, he likely knows it in and out, including everyone working for it. Also "Day2" is likely a metaphor for "story series entry number 2" and probably does not literally mean 2nd day at work.
The thing is, this doesn't actually matter. This service wasn't being used to "freely assemble" (as outlined in your source), it was being used as a tool to facilitate insurrection.

This clear and present danger was obvious, and places the imperative on supporting services to question whether they want to aid and abet sedition.
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I’ve always thought about it like this: one person’s freedom stops where another person’s freedom begins. When freedoms start conflicting, a negotiated compromise is needed and thus legislation is often involved. So, for example, it should be illegal to threaten somebody’s personal safety, because otherwise there isn’t a good balance between freedom of speech and freedom of security.

The corollary to this is that as population density increases freedom gets more limited, because people’s circles of freedom overlap more. Modern society has a lot more limitations on personal freedom because that is the only way to equally provide access to freedom to everyone in a denser world.
This is also because learning to live with each other is harder than just denouncing the other side. We need to help people understand that the root cause needs to be examined as you said.

This looking for the root cause usually works well in big companies - for example on the Toyota production line but in politics people tend to look for easy answers. Examples like the war on drugs, getting overly tough on crime or defunding the police altogether do nothing but exacerbate the underlying issues.

Apart from calling this out and trying to vote in people who can think deeper I'm not sure what else to do. Living in close nit community/larger families you need to learn accept people for who they are and that seems to be going out the window with the increased focus on the individual in modern western culture. There's no one size fix all unfortunately...
Protestant work ethic. Work hard is Good. It's deep in the US culture. There's even a quote from Wesley about work in another comment here!

So deep that in the recent "i was fired from X" articles, the subject points out that their colleagues were lazy and they worked hard. Whereas a southern (or culturally Catholic) European would see that this shows their colleagues also hated the place, and that there's no shame in being lazy.

It's not an obsession and not something that can be stopped. It's utterly integral in all of American society even the left wing radical side.

Progressivism is basically the belief that doing hard good work brings Good things.

(A non protestant culture would emphasise belief and being a better person more than doing good works)
I've had a few customers so far. Some of the powerstats have been taken from superherodb.com. Also, thanks for the kind words!
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I make the same assumption, but I consider it the highest of honors to be one of these people. It means you spend your free time learning by way of your own curiosity in spite of everything else. This is nothing short of noble, in my view.
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These examples are of technical education. German rocket scientists, and British blast-furnace wizards (to France). These things are important of course but seem orthogonal to political institutional memory.

Scholars deeply steeped in Bismark's thoughts & mistakes, or in English constitutional law, didn't make these jumps.
QBS was such an attempt to declarative building in C++ in a declarative way which looks sooo elegant on a first glance, and we all saw how well it did work out (it did not)
I think it’s because people end up asking “what can I functionally do on this platform that I can’t functionally do on another platform”, and it’s easier to think of these ‘negative’ examples.
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