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> Maybe, maybe not. Twitter is free to do what you think they should not.

Donald Trump is free to do what you think they should not.

> It's what Twitter exercises when it decides what content and content sources to relay.

And now Twitter is doomed to fail.

> Free speech isn't an entitlement to someone else's resources to amplify your speech.

"Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The term "freedom of expression" is sometimes used synonymously but includes any act of seeking, receiving, and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
Yeah Amazon is they are offing the servers of Parler so an apk won’t do anything lol don’t be dishonest please you know the consequences result of removing things form the store
A huge exception is Nietzsche. That guy is just unreadable, I wonder if he was schizophrenic.
Plus, earth is flat!
The problem is that more often than not, the autotools don't work.

They were the go-to tools for the portability problems of the mid-late 90s and early 2000s. Unfortunately, since then they have stagnated, and they are now stuck solving portability problems very few of us have. But they don't do much for contemporary portability issues, while CMake most certainly does.

Most recent problems I've encountered are that Autotools failed to build properly with MinGW and Cygwin. CMake worked perfectly.

Since the decline and obsolescence of proprietary UNIX platforms, the main purpose of the Autotools has been effectively removed. Today, the Autotools work on Linux, BSDs and MacOS, but with pretty much everything else having been long obsoleted, the amount of testing on other UNIX platforms is both minimal and completely pointless. Few people care. They are dead. But, they still don't support the most popular platforms of today: Windows, Android and iOS. But CMake does.
Nodes don't serve content. They serve blocks of encrypted data to other nodes. Portals run a node AND piece together content from blocks received from many nodes THEN serve the content.

You could also piece together content yourself by being your own portal. But running a node does not necessitate running a portal.
> A lot of this is, as Aqua mentioned, an exercise for their conscience.

Just as important to build (some...) trust and preserve culture among remaining employees.

Imagine this from the lens of remaining employees:
A) The new big boss wrote an algorithm to fire our friends
B) The new big boss had to make a tough decision to fire our friends but went out of his way to do right by them

Which one sounds better? I think the algorithm was a good idea to explore possibilities, but I'm not sure about the subsequent blog post.

There are recent examples of these layoffs among tech companies who had to make a pivot due to Covid and took approach B. Ritual is the one that immediately comes to mind for me.
Ahhhh the times we live in, when it specifically needs to be said that something like a image optimizer is privacy-aware. :(

Anyway - looks nice and something I'll use from time to time, thanks!
I still involuntarily vocalize it that way everytime I see it.
> Yes, companies can ban you in theory, but everything indicates that they do so only in extreme circumstances, like hosting child porn or terrorist content

This is very much untrue. Most of the conservatives (including the non-conservative called Donald Trump) banned from the main platforms are further from terrorist content than AOC is.
> The big C major quintet (the string quartet with an extra cello one) is in my opinion the greatest piece of chamber music ever written, and I don't even like string music.

> The recording with the Emerson quartet and Rostropovich is probably my favourite.

Wow, I know "me too!" is not approved of on Hacker News, but I'm very glad to share this opinion with some otherwise unknown to me internet commenter :D
Yeah. I thought it could be fun to revisit this legacy of the trump administration in light of recent events.
Ah, I was thinking about that, thanks for the link!
I was quite inspired by the Jargon File, back 15 years ago. But now it is wildly outdated. Flame wars are now called shitstorms and they are held on Twitter. Hackers are not really outcasts anymore, and there is a general acceptance of "hacker culture". Although hackers are now synonymous with foreign state agents rather than criminals.
I can no longer edit this comment, but I was wrong. The reasoning behind the longer gap between doses is logistical, and attempt to get as many first doses in as short a time as possible. It is scientifically unfounded.
New York City proposes regulating algorithms used in hiring
>at the 25+ crowd with fresh degrees, tons of debt and not-precisely-excellent earning opportunities

There are numerous studies and theories saying that late 19th-early 20th century revolutions wouldn't have happened if they hadn't been coordinated by educated people who hadn't found a stable job (mostly as government employees, not that many private white-collar jobs back then). The Russian revolution definitely wouldn't have happened without university-educated Lenin and Trotsky, and I'd say that even Stalin falls under "educated but with no stable job" umbrella (if I'm not mistaken he had gone to a priest seminary).

In my country (Romania) most of the inter-war intellectuals had turned extremists for exactly that reason, i.e. too few white-collar jobs to chase for people who had finished university. The most well-known examples are guys like Eliade or Cioran, but a more relevant one is Corneliu Zelea-Codreanu [1], which is currently well liked by some people in the US [2] and in Northern Italy [3]. A very relevant book on the subject can be found here [4], unfortunately for the time being with no English translation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneliu_Zelea_Codreanu

[2] https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-charlottesvil...

[3] https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2018/11/20/news/lealta_azi...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Limitele-Meritocratiei-Intro-Societat...
> He then fired someone else based on Role & Salary parameters.

No, these were parameters to the software he wrote.
> Apple and Google are private companies. It is their platform.

Long ago the same applied to water suppliers, electricity suppliers, railroad networks, phone networks.

Each and every time, once these private companies accumulated disproportional amount of power over people, these private companies were forcibly split, nationalized, and/or heavily regulated. This happened on behalf of the people who elect governments to do so.

Do you think modern Apple and Google are very different from Bell System in 1982?
> In a couple of days follow up with another more informal meeting. The news would have sunk, and the conversation would be more forward-thinking and productive.

That makes no sense to me. If I’m laid off, what could we possibly have to discuss? I’m sure HR would have all practical severance, benefits, legal information. What else are we gonna talk about?

I’ve been through a round of layoffs at a bank, and seen many more. Once you go down to HR you never go back to your desk. I’ve been on both sides of that, and honestly it seems the most sensible way to do things.
Me neither...i guess to test it you need to click on it and compare the zoomed frames
What if we simply said that what tech companies are doing may be the right thing in this case, but it really shouldn't be up to them to decide.

IMO these actions are coming too late, which shows that Google, Apple, Amazon, etc aren't responsible enough to have this kind of control.
Amazon is kicking Parler off its web hosting service
Show HN: Tweet to Video
Hi folks of HN,

I built this highly useful(?) tweet to animated video generator. I built it for fun, to get better at GSAP, and to test the waters for my video renderer service for Glitterly.

I’m not sure if there is any product-market fit for a tool like this and I have no idea who a potential user who would need this product would look like. But I came across Pikaso.me and they seem to have some traction for their tweet to image generator, so maybe there is hope.

Current features:
- Paste a tweet url, customise the tweet video with theme, background, animations

Potential features:
- Generate png, jpeg image
- More themes with your own branding (logo and colors)
- Anything else? I’m open to ideas / collaborations
There was some work ongoing to move to Lua internally and gradually move over to it, but it's a huge task and I've not kept up on recent progress with this.

This would of course be a huge improvement, but there are many details to get right to support the old and new scripts in parallel to effect a smooth transition. But in the long term, this will resolve many complaints about CMake and really improve the semantics of the language and development and debugging of scripts.
A repository with more than 250 web development resources
UK opted out of many EU policies. Now they simply decided to opt out entirely.
Yes but what tends to happen is - the risk is - youll probably just end up with a stable team, but not a good team. The best will have left or been pushed out. The ones that stay, desperate enough to be unethical to keep their positions, to lie to cover their asses. A barely functioning but stable entity floating in space not producing anything of value until the company slowly withers and disappears.
I’ve always found the “we value your privacy” an interesting _admission_. They definitely put a _value_ on your privacy by selling it! They exactly what other are willing to pay for it.
Sorry, but this is not decentralized at all, as you are at mercy of siasky.net serving you the right code. If siasky.net is compromised it will serve you code which steals the account. This is strictly inferior to normal web, as you need to trust both the app developer and the portal code is served from.

Having multiple mirrors is NOT decentralization.

My criteria for "decentralized web" candidates are:

* credentials are managed by a trusted component outside of controls of apps, let alone mirrors
* content integrity is checked before it is used
* switching between nodes happens automatically in
background, there should be no SPoF (i.e. if download
through node 1 fails client should automatically retry
from node 2 and so on).

I don't think you can achieve this without integrating with a browser.
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That phenomenon is called counter-signaling, which I first ran into listening to Dan Jurafsky making the point that if a menu uses the word "fresh", its a low-brow restaurant. A high-brow restaurant would never use the word "fresh" -- the freshness is implicit in the other signals.

https://kelley.iu.edu/riharbau/cs-randfinal.pdf

"People of average education show off the studied
regularity of their script, but the well educated often scribble illegibly. Mediocre students answer a
teacher’s easy questions, but the best students are embarrassed to prove their knowledge of trivial
points. Acquaintances show their good intentions by politely ignoring one’s flaws, while close
friends show intimacy by teasingly highlighting them. People of moderate ability seek formal
credentials to impress employers and society, but the talented often downplay their credentials
even if they have bothered to obtain them. A person of average reputation defensively refutes
accusations against his character, while a highly respected person finds it demeaning to dignify
accusations with a response."
"The economies are also quite heterogenous."

Collapse of Nokia was very traumatic for Finland, it was a classical case of having your eggs in one basket. I think you never came close to such an earthquake in Norway.
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> What if we simply said that what tech companies are doing may be the right thing in this case, but it really shouldn't be up to them to decide.

I think the exact opposite: it may be wrong (I don't think it is, but I think there is legitimate debate), but it absolutely should be up to them to decide the rules for their platforms.
Gumtree: A neat code differencing tool
Killzone's official website closes its doors
This would remove one of the key selling points of CMake, the fact that it is "glue" to permit development with any build tool or IDE of choice.

It's great that one person can be using Visual Studio on Windows while another uses CLion on MacOS and another uses Eclipse or Emacs on Linux, all working on the same codebase. It's a huge benefit for cross-platform tooling-independent development.
To those who voted down the parent, know that your reaction is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Pravda and Izvestia only printed "approved news", we made fun of them here in the west while in the Soviet Union is was said "there is no news in Pravda, no truth in Izvestia". I don't want to go there and will speak up against this type of censorship no matter who gets censored. Let the law be the bar which needs to be passed to be allowed to publish, not some ideological stance. If you do want to use ideology as a guideline to what gets published you a) have to be honest about it and b) don't get too claim protection as a common carrier, i.e. you will be responsible for what gets published through your channel.
What’s a better reply?
If he has not communicated his vision clearly enough for the company to survive without him, then he has failed.
That world.

[Edited] - as I thought you were asking a slightly different question. My bad.
I am always surprised when (be it greenwashing or not) companies call themselves "search engine" when in fact ... they actually aren't a search "engine".

They don't have any indexing/searching technology, they just re-use another search technology in white-label.

We can criticize Google for many things, but at least those guys really built a technology, from scratch.

TL;DR: Calling Ecosia a search engine is like calling yourself a "restaurant" when all you're actually doing is reheating factory-prepared meals.
I wonder how this is measured. Especially the Roma population in Central Europe seems to be stuck in endless circle of crime and misery, regardless of money and effort poured into the ghettos. Roma who escape those conditions are rare, and they almost always marry someone "white" and move as far from their original community as possible.
I think that's why an education has to be broad. A selective education can be tantamount to brainwashing/propaganda. Give the students as many perspectives and hope that they will do something sensible as they process the information; knowing that not all will, but most.

I believe that the more perspectives you are aware of, the less likely you are to be dogmatic and extreme in your beliefs and actions. You will be reminded how dissimilar real life is to simple ideas and rhetoric, that it is a shifting ocean of nuances and caveats.

Or society can go the other route, assume you cannot trust the people and create a tyranny of disinformation and control.
>(A non protestant culture would emphasise belief and being a better person more than doing good works)

This sounds kind of odd, given protestants generally believe in salvation by faith (Jesus saves those who believe), and catholics believe in salvation by works.
I don't know if they still do this, but not long ago they used to try and get you to switch off your ad blocker with an obnoxious message saying "Ads plant trees! We’ve detected that you are using an ad blocker. We plant trees thanks to income earned from ads. Please disable your ad blocker for Ecosia so that we can keep on planting."
Parler is being held to an odd standard here. They need to remove content inciting violence like that on Capitol Tuesday, but the BLM related protests/riots killed more people and damaged more property and whatsapp, facebook, twitter etc kept the inciting comments. :/
While there’s not a 1:1 from education to happiness or prosperity, the least educated countries are really not doing well.
Exciting stuff. Congratulations to you for this major release. We need more alternatives and the decentralized approach is certainly interesting.
One per Desk
Then you've essentially got duct* tape over your mouth while your opponents are handed free megaphones

(*duct/duck - delete as appropriate)
Work ethics and culture differs wildly around the world - and can obviously result in different levels of productivity.

What I like about the Nordic countries, is that workers there are productive. When they're at work, they work - but at the same time, they have a healthy relationship to their workplace, due to strong workers rights / laws.

Another thing to keep in mind, is that social conformity there, is on par with countries like Japan.

In some countries, you're almost applauded if you manage to screw over your boss / company, by simply getting paid without doing much at all. For many, it's the dream situation - to just clock in at work, do nothing, get paid, and go home.

That's not at all the case in the Nordic countries, where you're expected to work hard and produce.

Strong sense of work ethic, labor laws, balanced with expectations of healthy work/life balance.

(But with that said, there are some serious drawbacks. If your only goal is to accumulate as much wealth as possible, at all costs, and as quickly as possible - Nordic countries is not the right place, IMO).
Yep I wasn't saying it wasn't.
From hate speech to incitement to genocide [pdf]
Scott is fairly popular in Europe too, I think his kind of romantism is just appealing to people, much like Tolkien's.
As a runner I wouldn't say knees are particularly fragile, my knees can take a lot of beating, more than my shins, ankles or feet. Additionally the body operates on use it or lose it so to maintain healthy knees you need to either walk long distances (e.g. hiking) or run.
That's not refusing to deal with it, merely saying that you may need some time to do exactly what I suggested (seek information and advice) but you are dealing with it.
That’s actually a disconfirmation. He doesn’t pronounce the second syllable as a short “i”, but as a short “u”. The problem is that a short “u” sound is almost nonexistent in English, so native English speakers will pronounce it differently.

Edit: Actually the closest in English is probably “linnooks” — “lin” as in “linen” and “nooks” as in “nooks and crannies”.
I'm not personally a big navalny fan but many people do take his opinions more seriously than mine, especially when it comes to censorship. Just like people hang on to every word that comes out of Greta.
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If the mob that invaded the Capitol building had managed to get to the senators and representatives before they were evacuated, what do you think the mob would have done to them? I think its clear that a substantial number of them would have been murdered.

From here in Europe it looked like an improvised coup attempt. Not a coup as in taking over the country, but a coup as in decapitating part of the government.
> Do you still have freedom of assembly during covid?

I’m in America, so: yes.

Joking aside, regulating pandemics is a court-tested limit on freedom of assembly. As is anti-discrimination statute on the basis of protected classes.
We can't grasp the world's complexity as an individual but we need a simple, universal and unquestionable definition of technology...
No, but they are collections of people and as such have certain rights.
> or in English constitutional law

Carl Schmitt did in fact made the jump, and he's one of the most read constitutional law writers in the last century. Not sure if Max Weber would have done the same, most probably not (he was really versed in English constitutional law, his "Economy and Society" has lots of quotes to Maitland's "History of English Law"), but he didn't strike me as a fervent supporter of democracy rights either.

And there was also the definite jump made by Heidegger, not exactly a legal scholar but a very well-read person nonetheless (and a mentor to Hannah Arendt, among others).
Ask HN: When do you know your startup has failed?
if you've had a failed startup, how did you know?

Did you run out of cash and call it to quit?

No product-market fit?

If you succeeded, did you have a patch so rough that you were evicted?

Also, if you need any help with a project, a startup, or an idea, just post it here.
The platform is not the enemy, it's just a resource. If you choose to believe any information as it was written, without thinking about it yourself or checking with other resources, that's on you.

Personal responsibility seems to be criminally underrated, everyone would rather blame anything and anyone but themselves. That's toxic for everyone, including yourself.

But this reminded me, I don't remember the last time I solved a problem without looking for an answer online... It's really efficient, but I've lost the ability to quickly solve something by myself.

This is why I'm afraid of all the censorship and blocking, I'd have to go back to how it was. It was slow and hard, but also fun tbh.
> The official way to pronounce “MySQL” is “My Ess Que Ell” (not “my sequel”), but we do not mind if you pronounce it as “my sequel” or in some other localized way.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/what-is-mysql.html

There's an equivalent page in the SqlServer docs somewhere that recommends SequelServer as the idiomatic pronunciation.

I pronounce each of them idiomatically. When saying SQL I tend to say S-Q-L unless I'm around people who tend to say Sequel, in which case I say it that way. Most people I meet in person also tend to say S-Q-L, presumably because that is how it is written.

According to a book I read years ago, some people pronounce it "Squirrel", but I've never personally met one.
And Ecosia's business model relies on promoting consumerism (getting you to look at and click on ads).
WhatsApp policy change doesn’t affect non-business communications
And? Those multi-billion companies have been toeing a certain line for a long time now, partly in the hope of being left alone to gather even more money if they only did some token gestures, partly because they've taken on their own share of activists in their HR and communications divisions.
I was a bit surprised too, some of the incomprehensible parts or things that look like a split personality could relate to his sister's tampering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_F%C3%B6rster-Nietzsc...

I've never really investigated how his popular works relate to time of initial publishing.
Agnostic here.

It is fair to say that Western thinking has been shaped by the church a lot, given that for almost 1000 years, the only education you could get was provided by the church. Secular schools either did not exist at all, or were very small.

Also, common knowledge of Latin helped scholars from various ends of the continent communicate with one another. This is an important factor in Europe, with its Babel of mutually unintelligible languages.