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Funny you should say that, because go was specifically designed for large code bases. I work on a large go code base and it’s great.

https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article
We have made computer science so complicated for ourselves. It may be evolution I guess.

On one hand (1) we have people who write OS, compilers etc., On the other (2) we have folks use them and build applications for businesses. The school teaches us for (1). We learn (2) ourselves at work. I wish schools taught us for (2) as well along with all the necessary soft skills to deal with.
Remember that Facebook and Twitter only acted after the fact. For them, Trump was too big to censor too. They only took action days before he is out of office when it was guaranteed he would leave.
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Is Twitter hosted on AWS? Has AWS asked them to take those down?

I'm pretty confused by your last sentence. It seems like a very out of order personal attack with no basis.
They don’t just agree with it, they explicitly use that alt text to justify their oppression.

Also, I never made a “guilt by association” argument, you inferred it. You just committed the fallacy fallacy. Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
Yes, conservatives have been the only group associated with riots this year. Makes total sense why they are the only ones targeted.
> The idea that all it takes is $300k to change monetary policy in the US is absolutely nutty.

The position that she only gave one speech and it was in direct exchange for a huge change in monetary policy is a strawman.
I know its probably crazy to ask, but tell me where in the US Constitution does the federal government have the power to force me into a hotel at my expense

I know in "times of emergency" people seem to think the constitution is suspended and the government as "unlimited power" but last I checked Emperor Palatine was a fictional character, and saying "Singapore does" well Singapore is an Authoritarian nightmare IMO, one i do not really want to replicate here in the US. I pass taking public policy lessons from Singapore
This is splitting hairs. Twitter has no problem booting millions of people off their platform for political purposes. Clearly, they also don't mind that a rising competitor (Parler) was put out of business overnight.

Yet, they don't like it when a country blocks them. This is hypocrisy, regardless how people might try to distinguish one kind of "blocking" from another.

It would be better if Uganda didn't block social media. It would also be better if social media didn't block users here in the U.S.
The services which are exempted either don't access personal data or only do so when you enable a service like iCloud Photos. If you don't trust Apple to not access data when the corresponding service is not enabled, your choices are to not use their OS or not use their OS — a tool like this can trivially be bypassed by anyone who controls the kernel.
That's (bad) whataboutism, and nothing to do with my comment.

> The rules in the US are don’t be agent for a foreign government, but Huawei wouldn’t agree to that.

I'll bite: If you have proof, or even actual evidence, of any part of that statement, I am sure the public at large would be very interested.

Unfortunately this topic always leads to this sort of low effort reply and a sensible discussion is never possible.
I was thinking that there should not be any huge technical problem with making an FXS interface for the raspberry pi, and I did find a USB adapter which I might have been tempted to to try, but it's a little expensive and only supported 0.7 REN (ringer equivalency number) which might not be enough to power the mechanical ringer on an old phone. Further searching did turn up the OAKR2 HAT though ( https://switchpi.com/oakr2-module-specifications/ ) and it looks like the schematics are on github.
The only contemporaneous element in the article related to Elon Musk is this paragraph:

"A lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech," Musk replied to a tweet of a satirical article entitled "Evil Fascist Dictator Censored and Voted Out Of Office."

Nothing more than what is, arguably, an observation rather than an all-out condemnation.

Far clearer sentiments have been expressed by Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Alexei Navalny, the prominent Kremlin critic.
It's been called (anthropogenic) climate change because of insipid replies like yours. It's like my daughter saying that's she having social interaction because she's looking at tiktok, "and it's called social media."
Especially if they are domain joined.
> In your linked comment, all of these governments recognize (3) as a scenario that should be governed by laws (which vary between countries).

So why not 2? When does 2 become 3?

> As you noted, Germany restricts speech more than the US for obvious historical reasons. So the fact that even their government objects to this behavior is evidence against your position, not mine.

The German and French government objects to the US not having laws that require this behavior and leaving it in the hands of private companies, sure, and I object to the US having censorship laws and would rather private entities be able to make the decision for themselves, the direction of MORE freedom of speech.
I’d like to see email clients offer a nice one-click “rebase on top of latest” button.
Buy some really good bottles of whiskey, like the expensive stuff. Or other luxury goods that will increase in price and which you can trade for other stuff.

Look for alternatives for communications, possibly P2P and ways to connect with local communities.
I don't think I've ever seen generics be the cause of over-engineered complexity in Java.

It's pretty much always giant, complex class hierarchies or a bunch of reflection (or both).
Clearly you didn't quote the rest of that exact line for a reason.

He goes on to explain what situation would call for use of suppression, for example, the use of violence or rejecting reason or logic by the intolerant (Which, obviously both are what happened in January 6th and in this narrative) ;)

The ban isn't on conservative viewpoints, it is on intolerant speech that has no want to make a logical discussion and resorts to violence. Trust me, I'm using it correctly.
Also, you just can't use E2EE on the desktop clients, and they have stated that they have no intention of fixing that.

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/118#issue...
A few things:

1. You either are unaware of the meaning of the word "disingenuous", or you know my own intentions better than I do.

2. Did Parler express suprise that some of its users attempted to (and in some cases succeeded) incite violence on their platform?

3. Again your tendency towards superlative undermines the discussion, but "everybody knows it" and "the damage has been done"? This is a very strong statement indeed, claiming that you have knowledge that Parler's moderation has been so ineffectual that every user on their platform is able to view all inciting content before it is taken down.
Don't forget his earlier travel bans against primarily Muslim countries, excluding countries that he personally does business with. A history of xenophobic actions from Trump means that he reasonably lost the benefit of the doubt for later cases.
A lot of people don't thrive with self-directed learning, and even more don't do well without being able to ask questions. There's no doubt that YouTube is an amazing resource but the fact it exists doesn't automatically mean everyone can learn well from it. Those who can are quite fortunate. Those who can't still need good teachers.
It would have gone through had Visa's CEO not been so honest at the time of the merger announcement saying that they intended to use Plaid's data to get a leg up on their competitors.

> The DOJ cited Visa CEO Al Kelly’s description of the deal as an “insurance policy” to neutralize a “threat to our important US debit business.”
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The problem with chat is the interruptive, thoughtless nature of it. In a large organization, you want durability that you won't get from chat.

Internal Q&A, forums, and email all work because you can have long-form conversations on them but an important consideration is discoverability. If a new user wants to find out why X is true for some service, they'd better be able to do that without interrupting someone else.
Try this:

lynx -dump -hiddenlinks=listonly https://laconicml.com/computer-science-curriculum-youtube-videos/ | grep youtube.com | perl -pe 's/.*http/http/' | youtube-dl --batch-file -
> USA is pretty much a fortress for as long as border security goes

More like a maginot line than a fortress.
In principle snow is good. It is better than rain as it will not flow quickly away. Melting snow lets more water to sink into ground and build up water table.
Same here. If you like email, Zulip is what you need.
What’s wrong with manual? Also if I set up a service like that, what would be illegal about it? Nobody would use it, but that’s fine too.
Despite the account name, that particular user has been here for over three years, and has 3900 karma. They're not just some drive-by troller.

Also, you should judge their comments by the comments, not by the username. Those were some fairly thoughtful comments, even if you don't agree with them.
Also, in terms of weather, it's all relative.

Canada can get quite cold, but Vancouver is actually relatively moderate and is borderline Mediterranean due to its west coast location. Beijing gets both much colder and much hotter on a regular basis.

Also, air quality in Vancouver is significantly better than in Beijing, which would have more impact on living conditions than just climate by itself.
This resonates with me. When I was an undergrad about 25 years ago most intro to programming classes were taught in C. There were a lot of concepts I struggled with at the time that now I find trivial. In retrospect, what I was really struggling with was some of the lower level gnarly bits C exposes to the programmer.

While it's good that I know how those things work, I did not need to understand them to just get a basic understanding of strings, data structures, etc. For instance it wasn't that I couldn't grok linked lists, I couldn't grok pointer manipulation at the time. But that still meant my code didn't work.
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What I find interesting is the evolution of written languages:

1. pictures

2. hieroglyphs

3. hieroglyphs with phonetic sounds

4. alphabets

5. start over with step 1
I suppose I haven't read definitive literature on the topic to be convinced but can you not catch it again, especially a different strain?

It still feels awfully risky to travel at the moment.
Close em all or tax em.
Oh good. The attackers were only in their systems since 9/4/19 before being detected on 12/12/20, so only 15 months of infiltration into SolarWinds' systems before detection. At least the payload was only deployed 2/20/20, so their customers were only completely infiltrated without detection for 8 months. Assuming the attackers could only get a 10 MB/s channel total per target even though they probably infected thousands to tens of thousands of machines per target, at ~20 million seconds that would constitute ~200 TB exfiltrated per customer or ~19 years of 1080p video.

If an attacker has just one day to root around and exfiltrate they can easily get valuable information. If they are given 8 months they have already gotten everything of value for months and are just waiting around for any new data to come in. Think how inadequate your systems must be to let an attacker sit around in your systems for 8 months, it is mind-boggling how unqualified their systems are for their problems. And this is not just an indictment of SolarWinds. Just in case anybody forgets, it was the top-flight security company FireEye who discovered this breach after realizing they themselves were breached. A "best of the best" security company took 8 months before realizing that they or any of their customers had been breached. This is what "top-class" security buys you.
The sufficiently stupid-but-hard-working programmer can write crap code in any language. The actually-useful question is whether the language gives competent programmers enough rope to build whatever they're trying to build.
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They are certainly aligned with the US Democratic party, but I think it's a mistake to equate the Democrats with "the left" unless you're only speaking in that total American context where "Left=Dems, Right=GOP, end of story."
> Access to information and freedom of expression, including the public conversation on Twitter, is never more important than during democratic processes, particularly elections.

The jokes write themselves
Wow that's some bad luck! At least "Bowie" stuck after that, it's a cool name.
By unfathomable, I suppose you mean political?
But what's the definition of a journalistic channel?

The White House has an official twitter account, also a Youtube channel and a Facebook account. That's a reasonable use of social media, don't you think?
Genius! Good to know it exists, if I need it one day.

For now, I tried patching the timestamp in the binary as suggested by jtvjan, since I saw it before your post. It works, so I'll stick with it for now. But I'll be sure to try this RunAsDate when I need something similar in the future.
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Use Zulip. It solves all the problems that email has and also enables a bunch of other things you never knew you needed, like a sane model for browsing messages.

It can even serve as real-time communication for #random and other such work-adjacent channels.
VLANs are at layer 2 which is switching. Routing is layer 3.

I have several Unifi switches and a controller (running on an rpi) on my network but I use my own router. I can setup VLAN access ports and trunks all day on the switches no problem, but I can't control the layer 3 routing between those VLANs with the controller, which is what you're talking about. By setting up a gateway/network on each VLAN from my router I can control routing. It's just not as slick as having a USG where it's all controlled via the controller UI.
NPM is not trusted by major fortune enterprises. Many of the tech companies I've worked at banned using NPM in prod. And instead created their own NPM Clone with source code pinned into a private repo, which security audited.

Adding a single NPM library became a total PITA, as it linked to another 100 other NPM libraries, which in-tern linked to an additional 100+ other NPM libraries. So adding a single NPM library to the private repo, meant adding 100s to 1000s of other NPM libraries. (E.g. left-pad [1])

Personally, I think this was a major reason for node.js not picking up more in the enterprise space. With Python & golang getting more traction.

[1] https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-...
Smaller companies here in the bay area as well, see: Rejuvenation Tech.
Hmm I hadn't considered that but how do you find out what tools were being used to produce the payload source code? How can you be certain? Could another adversary simply use the same tooling or perhaps it is shared to an allied nation (enemy of my enemy is a friend) to do its bidding.
Gamerbait
And Linux is named after a rude developer..or Washing-soap..who knows. An Oracle is the opposite you want of a Database, but Intel made a really good promise for others (Meltdown's). Google the searchengine is written wrong -> Goggles and and and ;)
Yeah, my experience so far has been that if I just pile a bunch of logs in there, if it's not given salient lines, the language model tends to either rat-hole on some particular detail that's irrelevant, or else construct a non-factual narrative. But, when Zebrium did the picking of these lines autonomously and GPT-3 summarized them, we see a meaningful summary. Having said that, I would also like to get GPT-3 more and more savvy with larger and larger log-based prompts, and I'm hoping it's possible with some tweaks to the prompt and some finetuning. I'll keep the blog posted as we do more experiments.
In a sense it sounds a bit like immunotherapy for allergies. That is typically about injecting pathogens into your body (e.g. under your tongue, under your skin, or in your lymph nodes), and then over time teaching your body that these pathogens are harmless.

As far as _why_ that works instead of sending someone into anaphylactic shock... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The immune system is weird and complex, and I guess that's why they want a medical specialist around in case you're one of the unlucky ones. (Only the first time with sublingual tablets as far as I know)
I wouldn't be so hasty to call a lack of variety a result of efficiency. Sure that may be one factor, but it isn't trivial to ship such perishables like fruits and vegetables half way around the globe in a way that consumers are willing to pay for quality that shows up. There are some products that just can't be transported in a way that maintains the level of quality a consumer would be willing to pay for.
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I'm surprised by this. I used to work in Foster City.

The joke on the campus was that VISA stood for "Very Inconspicuous Spy Agency".

You'd think that there wouldn't be this kind of miscommunication in the chain of command.

All jokes aside, I'm very curious to check out Plaid now because I didn't pay attention when it was independent and Visa is a *very* smart organization, so Plaid must be something special.
The vaccine question is going to be interesting. On one hand, if I'm vaccinated then I should be able to fly right? But no vaccine is 100% effective so do I need to get tested anyway? Are we just gonna have to get used to supplying a DNA sample every time we buy plane tickets?
The European Commission is investigating Amazon based on "distorting competition in online retail markets" [1]. I don't see a claim by the commission that Amazon is a monopoly. You can be investigated and have antitrust related actions applied to you without actually being a monopoly [2].

Further, the investigation is related to Amazon's retail marketplace business, not Amazon as a provider of cloud infrastructure. What is congress investigating Amazon for? I think you need to be more specific.

1. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law "In the United States, antitrust law is a collection of federal and state government laws that regulate the conduct and organization of business corporations and are generally intended to promote competition for the benefit of consumers."
Maybe your bank is better about this and offers OFX, but ultimately I gave up on this approach due to my bank adding more aggressive anti-scraping measures over time. The credit card sites were even worse about this.

Now I have a Postfix server setup which accepts the daily transaction summaries they send and makes CSVs out of those. There's still some HTML munging involved but I've found it much easier to let the data come to me than to go out and try to fetch it myself. In my experience financial institutions simply don't have a lot of reliable automation options accessible to the normal consumer.
It's not a stupid question. In short, this is not the issue that was at the core of net neutrality. Sci-hub's repeated evictions from their rented, DNS-resolved internet names were done by the centralized parties that have technical control over the names, not ISPs or mobile data providers.
Moon is amazing indeed! He's certainly among my favourite modern directors. Crazy that a son of a rockstar not only turned out to be a pretty normal guy, but also got lots of recognition purely out of talent.
I've commented this too much in this thread, but it's important: Zulip solves all this, has other advantages and a fast and extremely usable interface.
I never said they did, you said that they could just set up their own infra so it’s not a big deal - I just said that wasn’t possible as they can’t stand up 500 servers in 24 hours.

As an aside, I actually would continue serving a client if I had sold them a service, they were paying for it at the agreed price and keeping on top of invoices, and if me reneging would cause them to go out of business. And then if I had to end it, I would give them as much notice as I could practically provide (particularly if they were willing to profitably pay during the notice period).

I wouldn’t personally do business with you if I thought you would instantly back out of an agreement that you had already profited on with almost zero notice. AWS is no charity here, Parler were paying them for servers.
Are you comparing an operating system with a window manager ?

We name products with odd name because they are products, you want to be different.

Parts of this product are rarely named differently, a windshield is still called a windshield, not a "wdsd".
Thoughtful response! Thanks.

> Do you think there's a problem with the way technology has enabled the scale and precision of disinformation campaigns? If so, do you have any ideas what we can do about it?

Better education. Especially with regard to critical thinking skills.

Even if we removed the Internet, there would still be disinformation and propaganda that the population would have to contend with. Be it from the media, politicians, governments, books, friends, family, etc. Just as there always has been.

So I think the more comprehensive and sustainable approach would be to upgrade brains. Teach critical thinking and philosophy from a young age.

> Do you think there should be any moderation whatsoever? In other words, should people be allowed to incite, advocate, and organize violence in public forums? If not, where is the line? If so, what's remedies do we have as a society to the subsequent violence?

I'm absolutely for moderation on public forums. They are better for it. And by default they have to remove illegal content at least. Beyond that, it's up to them what the moderation policies are. HN is an example where I think moderation is really well done.

This gets a lot harder for platforms that are the de-facto town square like FB and Twitter. I don't know how we should handle that yet. But I think they should mostly stick with removing illegal content and act like a common carrier. If that's a problem due to the nature of social media, then maybe we should revisit the laws of the land. The fundamental issue here is having a few tech giants with a high level of control over the nation's discourse and who optimize for engagement (e.g., outrage, anger, bias confirmation). Which is fueling a lot of hate in the first place. They're not optimizing for thoughtful conversation and interaction. Not even remotely.

I'd also explore some other kinds of governance. Maybe an external non-partisan committee or a crypto governance approach. Not sure, but something external from these platform holders is key I think.
I signed up for that to see what Zulip is like, but there are only 19 messages visible if you do that, so I shouldn't have bothered. It seems nice, I guess.
I think the leak was caused by a problem with my certificate settings. I think I fixed the problem.. Thanks.
It’s clear through this all that we’ve seen great power wielded. Regardless of who you support, I hope anybody reading this remembers that there are more important things than winning. The government has a monopoly on violence. It doesn’t need you that much. Our kids are the losers when we allow ourselves to be pitted against each other.
Works on the native macOS client though.
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Freedom of expression on platforms is important

But it absolutely does not matter for a person in a position of power who has dedicated dedicated public information channels

Twitter is right, in the same way any journalist has the right to publish or not a statement by the president