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> As a young unicorn, ByteDance does not have strong government relationships like other tech giants do, so it's walking a tightrope every second.

For those in free countries: when you build moderation tools and use them to silence political dissent "because you have to / to play the game" the game plays you. There is no one "too big" to be crushed by those with the material source of political power [1] and everyone tells themselves that they "have to" build the tools because they don't have the "power" to push back or because "it really is that bad this time". But some things don't have to be built (or built in the centralized, controllable way that they are). And when centralization is required or "it really is that bad this time", censorship should be widely publicized and discussed both in real time and with regular retrospectives on decisions to censor that are _public_.

For those in dictatorships: All is not lost, regardless. [2][3]

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

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120107141633/http://www.vaclav...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless
I wonder what the market is for a sort of super-it lawyer service, that affords the protections of legal counsel in order to secure your data across multiple platforms and protect you from deplatforming as you describe, where they can take YOUR data, and is protected by legal counsel so that it generally can't be deplatformed by governmental entities.

Encryption has a sort of brutal effectiveness at doing this if you distribute copies of your data, but it is hard to maintain and has exposure in extreme events with your health.

Encryption + distributed data + legal protections from counsel could be an offering. It might be a "big fish" service though.
> I was on a central technology team that supports the Trust and Safety team, which sits within ByteDance's core data department.

Funny how censorship which makes these platforms entirely untrustworthy as a view into the world is filed under "Trust" in the org chart.

It's sort of like how Facebook's faux grassroots "community standards" are just the rules Facebook dictates to its community.
Maybe it's now time to change your license to be more "unfree". Like adding contact or usage restrictions for psychopaths or warfarer. One does not need to deal with this.
Making something about race is an instant way to get a loud, vocal minority to champion your cause which is why activists do it.

The news runs with it because anyone with half a brain know that most of this stuff has little to do with race other than as a rough proxy for wealth so they get rage clicks from all those people in addition to the aforementioned loud vocal minority.

I think it's stupid but if "it will screw black people more" is how we justify not screwing poor people that doesn't seem all that bad. That said, I'm aware that any justification (e.g. "think of the children", "national security", etc ) that side-steps the requirement for something to stand on its own merits is very dangerous.
That's just disgusting. That person is fearing to say their name, but to attack Bardin they are starting no less than attacking a whole culture implying that behaviour of a man could be fully explained by the culture he (probably - I don't know and care) is a part of.
Meh...

> Would you want to work for Noam Bardin?

I would. Actually I was just a few clicks to away to write him a message about that.
There is zero chance that democracies will conform to those kind of restrictions. Once most people are vaccinated, people are going to shift back to business (mostly) as usual subject to changes like more remote work. Governments can't enforce policies if people won't follow them.
Lockdown has allowed me to properly realize how much I really do not care about going out. I may enjoy social outings, and for a while I used to have weekly scheduled social outings having much fun in them. In spite of that, I've always been "homey", and I've always been very affected by going out multiple times -- especially weekends. It just drains me and physically exhausts me. Weekends should be sacred. I absolutely hate going out in them. It screws my whole week.

Thus, lockdown has not impacted me negatively in the slightest. At least not directly (it has indirectly through the mental health of those around me). I really do not care about going out. Even more so than I thought.

I like it this way, and I think that while I knew I could stay "home" for long periods, and liked it, I was never aware just how much I really am not affected by "staying home". I have basically been living for almost a year in a "leave the house on average 0.75 times per week", and for at most 4 hours. In a week, I go out an average of 3 hours. I live just fine.

Some of my close friends who considered themselves to be just like me are slowly going a bit crazy. I guess it's not even their need to go out, but the fact that they _know_ they can't.

I understand other people function in other ways. I'm sorry if you're in this group (or your loved ones). Nevertheless, to me, I just really don't feel the impact at all. If anything, having other people "live more like me" has made my life somewhat better, because they can empathize with me more and because the whole world has become "easier to live in", more adapted to my ways of living.

Mind you, this doesn't mean I can live anywhere because I live "mostly remotely, and mostly in my head". I live 5 minutes from my parents (and for a while I was living 1h away from them). Even though I may not go there every day, not even every week or every two weeks, the fact that I'm here gives me immense happiness and calmness. Staying at home does not mean not caring about my immediate and even my "nearish" surroundings.
The only article that seems to be quoting Devi Sridhar is behind a paywall, but doesn't seem to be supporting your argument.

I can't find anything on The Guradian's COVID live blog talking about what you're referring to, can you provide a link?
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how can VAT be related to drivers tax?

VAT is taken from customer and going to government directly.
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> sum(map(lambda s: len(s) if s.startswith('a') else 0,['abac','bced','asdasdf','lkjkl','assadf']))

I'd rather have comprehensions than map and filter that can't fit in pipeline.
Consider yourself lucky. Would your opinion change if you knew a few people your age that almost didn't make it?

It's anecdotal for sure, but once you see it with your own eyes it definitely makes you take it seriously.
Marketing spend, especially online, is one of the most studied inputs to business strategy. Long term lift studies of both brand and direct response advertising show that it absolutely drives consumer behavior. Whether or not that's good for consumers might be debatable. I'm happy to buy unbranded consumer packaged goods if I can ensure quality but there's a reason Procter and Gamble can make >50% gross margins.
How much land does rooftop solar require?
This is very similar to the storyline and theme of Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut,
I'm pretty sure telemetry is encrypted. Telemetry is not only position or velocity, there's a bunch of other information from sensors that should be handled with secrecy. Also gives more flexibility with announcements, given that the mission can fail anytime it's bad if some random person leaks that the rover stopped working suddenly or had a RAD
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There may be clickfarms that have their interests (accidentally) aligned with FB's in specific cases, which would mean FB has no interest in cracking down on them. And I wouldn't put it past FB to even indirectly operate such clickfarms if this means they can offer some support for the overinflated promises they make to advertisers.
I'm amazed that nobody here looks at porn.
To be fair this is a problem inherent to databases in general. You can have hand written queries that perform badly due to structure or query frequency as well which are not apparent until the dataset grows. The ORM should make it easier to rectify such situations (eg drop in an eager loading directive) vs having to restructure hand-written routines for similar effects.
It could be something very low-tech even. Just a machine that turns solar-energy + some mechanical power into say mars-dust bricks, non-stop for use in future missions? Maybe something that just keeps digging a perpetually deeper and deeper trench in a straight line so that subsequent missions don't need big drills to find out below-surface samples?

But thinking about it now, I can't envision that we here would be able to come up with something sublime/novel that a huge army of really-smart people haven't already after spending decades thinking about it. Then again, we have a lot of smart people concentrated in this forum, so who knows if a weird/silly conversation triggered by IT-minded people, acts as a catalyst for the engineer-lurkers that see it.
The genre of people who don't work in advertising complaining about how Facebook is bad for advertising is a true HN favorite.

We get it, you don't like FB. That's fine. As an advertiser who knows that FB is far and above every other attention based ad platform (in effectiveness, transparency, scale, etc.), its like listening to nails on a chalkboard to read 90% of the comments in threads like these.
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Isn't the whole point of Phel to provide Clojure-like syntax? in which case, the dot operator should be used for namespaces. If I recall, the backslash for namespacing was the lesser evil even when PHP implemented it at the time.
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India is a resource poor and labour rich country unlike Libya and Norway.
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Countries have to protect themselves. Influential media companies of every country do the same thing.

NEXT!
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"Blazing fast with 100K HTTP requests per second and ~0.1 ms latency on commodity cloud hardware"

Ok what's the secret sauce and downsides? Because as far as I know there's no way to cheat with PHP like C# did here:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
No question the actual publication costs should be covered.

Which they are when a paper is published Open Access. They are covered once, which is ok, because the publication costs also occur once for the most part. There is no reason for a publisher to be allowed to perpetually charge ~40$ for a pdf download.

One other often mentioned criticism is that universities are forced to subscribe to bundles of journals with a mixture of desired journals fudged with journals no one would want to read. Nominally the subscription fee covers a large swath of journals and papers, but essentially the actual value is much more narrow.

To be honest there is no need for journals anyway in our completely digitized world. If all the papers were published Open Access (paid for once) the users could simply filter for the keywords relevant to them. Why would I subscribe to a Journal? This is technology from the last century.

Edit: typo
> In South America (and Asia, too, if I understand correctly), Whatsapp was a way to avoid SMS charges on your mobile phone.

It was the same in the US, especially for avoiding costly international SMS/MMS charges. It basically allowed me to communicate with international family and friends, since they might not have been as technically inclined to deal with logins and spam on apps like Skype.

In addition, at that time, WhatsApp was the best way to share contacts. It’s still one of the best ways, I think, since you don’t have to worry if the other person is iOS or Android.
That is frequently true. However, when it is your customers buying the hardware then it's a bit rude to be wasteful. On the other hand, the repository conversion that GCC did was an extreme case. Their SVN repository had 287k commits in it, and I've only heard tales of larger ones.
Atlanta is a mixed bag. I am a person of color, an immigrant and spent about a decade working in the coasts (NYC and Bay Area) before relocating to Atlanta about 6 years ago.

The Pros
> relatively newer, affordable housing
> decent weather
> good public schools
> there is room for my young kids to grow in the suburbs
> It is green (love the tree cover), though the locals don't seem to care and keep chopping down the trees with no remorse.
> not prone to earth quakes, forest fires and gets plenty of rainfall.
> Plenty of trails, lakes. You can get to a beach in 5 hours (Hilton Head, Destin etc)

The Cons
> Salaries are lower and yes roles are stack specific
> Opportunities are limited.
> Mindset
> Traffic

If I had the means to buy a home at any of the tech centers, I would have not moved.
It is always a good idea to stay close to the mother ship(HQ).
The network effect of companies attracting engineers and other way around will always work.
Honestly, it "just works".

It's fast, it's simple. Its UX is "flagship" (unlike, sorry, Signal - who I'm giving a chance, but the UX is unquestionably more "open source *nix product"-adjacent)

A few years back I got tired that my friends were sprawled across many different platforms, and I tried a bunch of different clients and found Whatsapp the most attractive. I made a pitch to the ones who weren't already on there to move over. And it stuck, even for my own parents.
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> The psychological toll is from there being a deadly global pandemic.

How do you know? I think this claim, if it is to be believed, deserves some solid and objective evidence.

How come the pandemic is the deadly one? Why not put some of the blame on the millions of people who died from this thing, who probably could have lived through it had they lived healthier lives? There has been ZERO discussion of how to improve the body's natural immunity to viruses, which is without a doubt the most efficacious way to prevent death from coronaviruses.

> I think railing against lockdowns is a coping mechanism

This is so condescending I have a hard time believing you're being honest. No business owner would choose to completely shutter their enterprise as so many have had to do under threat of government violence. The complete upending of normal life was not something anyone did because it was the right thing to do. We did it because we were all under threat of fines, violence, and losing our freedoms even further if we didn't.

> But, in our more calm and reflective and honest moments, we should remember that the psychological toll here is from the pandemic, and there's not some magical other option where the pandemic is anything other than a very difficult situation.

The "pandemic" has done absolutely nothing to me. All of my difficulties have been tied to the complete shutdown of my local, state, and federal government. I haven't gotten sick nor have any of my close friends and family. I have, however, been assaulted by random prisoners let out of prison too early, have been price-gouged by corporations, and have had my basic liberties stripped. Those were all lockdown policies causing those things - not the pandemic.

To me, it's overwhelmingly obvious that our infrastructure is failing and the government is using ridiculous histrionics regarding the virus and regarding "anti-racism," to cover it up.
Thanks, this was a great overview of the various ways to bind a function call to an implementation.
If what you are referring to is a proper UBI that covers all necessities I would agree with you. But that would indeed change the power dynamic radically in favour of workers so I'm not sure how that would be passed without more or less a revolution.
Except if it's a fictional propaganda piece. Most of these "anonymous sources" reports are.
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also, values is awesome for returning your models as dicts when that's all you need most of the time, avoiding all the overhead of objects
Hey! Original discoverer here. I would like to clarify some things. It would certainly be possible given that we can have numeric shell-code (check the reference). The real problem in here is the security mechanisms like stack cookies, brute-forcing those would have been a PITA with only numbers. But I'd have to take a closer look at the stack god knows what GCC could have done there :)

On a system without these protection mechanisms it would be a easy win.

Reference: https://haxx.in/posts/numeric-shellcode/
It just looks like using language like Scala would have been so much more productive.
I gave it serious thought but I run a decent amount of CAD software on Windows via boot camp. If I was MacOS only I might have given it a go.
Yes indeed. I guess I will use this comment to explore its objectionable properties. I think I can come up with a somewhat nuanced reason for objection (not saying this has any bearing on legality). Let me talk it through.
Here goes:

The Resturant gets paid and the customers get food. The delivery service adds value and gets paid for it. If someone doesn’t realize doordash is not the Resturant by now... who cares? As long as the restaurants reputation is not hurt... (here’s were the issues start)

To that end, if I am the Resturant, I see that I can add my own delivery service, undercut doordash by a bit, and make more money, and control my reputation by employing people who have incintives aligned with me, then great! Thanks doordash, for showing me the way.

Ah, but can I? Maybe not without forming a power group with other restaurants (or some other economic structure..?), as the cost of adding a “real employee” may be greater than the margin added by the delivery service. I need a structure that both aligns incentives between delivery service and Resturant, and is cost effective. Since restaurants weren’t already doing this, probably it has to happen at the meta-Resturant level of it can be done while preserving reputation at all. (Of course, the difficulty of it depends on the food being served, so that’s why, e.g. pizza was already being delivered.)
That's indeed the failure of the system : something sensitive used by billions not being able to pay for a regular audit.

If no one wants to pay for it to have the required quality, why not make it a public utility properly funded by tax, as a public service ; instead of later paying the costs in various form of the consequences of the vulnerabilities.
This. The world is full of incompetent people winging it, and the competent ones are busy putting out the fires they left behind. It takes 3000 years to build a Ming-vase, but only a kid playing soccer to destroy it.
Making a mess is a low effort endeavour.
Cleaning it up, might as well be 1/99 of your lifetime. Tech projects are asymmetric warfare between the business side supporting the "cheapest" project approach and engineers allowed to clean it up properly only after the sunken cost fallacy trapped the clueless.
That part was never even enforced. I have a single-seat GSuite (or, now Google Workspace Plus) account and have unlimited storage. It's the only thing keeping me on GSuite, honestly, because I really prefer Outlook to Gmail.
Past experience echoes parent under multiple _local_ businesses. I feel like scammy and bogus likes might convert better for a non local internet only type of business, not so well locally
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Right, so when a middleman comes along that apparently requires a 30% cut, either the customer pays it (prices go up). Or the restaurant absorbs the cost (possibly partially).

However I am under the impression that restaurants are NOT operating at a 30% profit margin, and cannot absorb this middleman cut entirely on their own.

It remains to be seen if sales volume goes up enough to offset this. Otherwise the middleman cut will be paid by the customer and thus prices go up.

FWIW, I don't think the middleman adds enough value to demand a 30% cut. So I personally opt out of that and order directly from a restaurant and also pick up in person.

>The restaurant just handles the money.

I thought they were providing the labor for the actual service/product the customer wants. Without that, there is no product for the middleman to attach to and deliver.
If I don't have to stop in a hurry I default to using the rear brakes -- I can't screw that up in a way that'll send me over the handlebars.
The trouble started because gas processing plants at wellheads froze up, being insufficiently winterized, so gas-powered peak generation capacity simply wasn't there. What's the gas spot price in Texas right now?
> You know what's even less of a joke than COVID-19? Our histrionic, insane, and completely violent overreaction to it.

Quick question: how would you propose dealing with a global pandemic? Social isolation seems like the most common sense solution, since in 2021 we know how disease is transmitted and how to deal with that.
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> However, the crux of my argument is that it’s easy enough to emulate this construction in other languages.

It's also easy enough to emulate all control flow statements with goto. Tagged unions are valuable because they help communicate restraints. Not only to other developers, but also to the compiler.
Could you point to some examples/tutorials of audio chats based on matrix?
I am saying that there's no insight in the content. It is unsubstantiated opinion.
Whatsapp voice calls are pretty much the only way I can communicate with foreign family. Actually even locally, sometimes whatsapp calls are much better over wifi than cell calls over towers, it's kind of ridiculous. I don't even bother calling frequent contacts over cell any more.
That last argument sure sounds like an argument from feels rather than facts and logic, I thought the right hated that kind of rhetoric.

The obvious answer is of course that health care is a public service and should not be reliant on charitable organizations, which would be absolutely ridiculous. (Yes reproductive care is health care, arguments made from personal feelings or believes are not a worthy retort against medical scientific consensus)
While somewhat true, over the past few years life expectancy has moved from the high of 78.94 in 2013 to 78.81 in 2018, then rising slightly in 2019 before dropping to 77.8 in 2020.
UUIDs also introduce performance challenges. Using them as the primary key will absolutely torpedo your insert performance. They also subtly harm performance on pretty much every other operation. You can fit half (or 1/4, if you can live with 32-bit ints) as many UUIDs in a cache line, and can't even fit one of them in an integer register. The impact on join performance can be pervasive at production scale even when it's not visible at dev scale. And UUIDs tend to result in records being physically arranged in ways that defeat the page cache.
My mother died of cancer in her mid-40s. She had me pretty young so I had a front row seat to the entire thing. Terrible, terrible thing to go through. I do nothing to reduce my risk of cancer. I just can't live my life like that. Some people can and do. I wish I were one of them.