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Florida to ban Facebook, YouTube from censoring Trump, politicians
The people who are counted in that are all ones who have publicly said that it's because of the company changes. Most of these are long-standing loyal employees who have no incentive to say this. If it was just about the money they could just as easily keep quiet and take the cash. In fact, for all we know lots of people did just that.
Yes. One could be attracting and hiring these people in the first place and letting the problem fester for far too long.
The whole mess started because they kept (still keep?) an internal list where they made fun of their customers names for years. No company that is radically transparent can get away with that.
Wow, you aren’t kidding. This is one of the more poorly-written articles I’ve seen on HN.
I've worked across a wide range of companies in tech for 25 years, so no, I don't. But I've also yet to work for or with a single company where tech decisions were not inherently political.

E.g. I had a contract to do a communications system to relay debug mapping data from an autonomous submersible. For a military research institute. It was inherently political because I had to consider if I was ok with working a project that might end up being used in armed conflict in the future my code certainly wouldn't).

Or when I worked on code to maintain the quality documentation for a systems integrated that delivered backend systems for the police. I had no problems with that, but I might have if it'd been somewhere where the police had a worse reputation than in Norway where I did that job.

I've worked on billing systems where we had to decide on anti-fraud measures. Sounds non-political, until you realise it often involves broad blocks that stereotypes behaviours based on factors that very easily ends up effectively profiling users.

I could list many more. I've yet to work on a single software system where the higher level architecture did not involve consideration of political issues whether explicitly, or implicitly. I'm sure there are some, but I think there are far fewer than you imagine.
In 2008, I just quit - leaving my job at a small consultancy, which I really enjoyed. Initially, I was going to move country/head away travelling. But then it actually made sense to hang about for a bit for visa/residency reasons, so I found myself needing some work.
Somehow, I ended up with 3 simultaneous contacts, all for essentially foundation clients. Picked up a fourth a few years later.

First few months were nuts, working insane hours, but very quickly found a balance. After that, I managed to travel and be a sort of hybrid digital nomad, with a base in one country that I often returned to. I'd spend about six months in the Northern Hemisphere during late Spring and Summer, around four months in Southern Hemisphere for the their late spring/summer - and the other couple bouncing around the tropics.

Probably had a 12-24 month runway of cash if needed, but never actually touched any of it. No idea how to hustle for new work. But it kept coming in anyway. Stopped bouncing between hemispheres around 8 years later having settled in Australia.

Have now started a company with a co-founder and transitioning more to selling Saas products rather than contracting purely exchanging hours for cash. (I've never been able to get paid purely on value-based pricing)
The neurologist I went to really recommended naprapathy and/or physiotherapy on a regular basis - he was in his 60s and had seen a lot of really weird things over the years.

It’s easy to chalk a burnout down to emotions and stress, and these might very well be the root cause. For me the above, however positive in nature, gave me physiological “blockers”, in a sense.

Had my shoulder not started to act up (bicep it turned out after a couple of months excruciating shoulder pain - a whole story on its own, fixed by sticking a needle straight in to the muscle to force relaxation) I would not have ended up at the naprapath.

A kind of burn-out - but rest and mindfulness on it’s own would not have been enough to get me back.
> Since there is no legal penalty for a "false positive",

I’m really confused by that part: YouTube lawyers must know that there’s a significant risk they’ll piss of a someone like a law professor and that they’ll use all their faculty to go after what is essentially fraud: there are provisions in the CDMA precisely for that, and the platform is liable for indulging those in systematic cases. Even if it’s not, they are risking a change in law.

Compared that PR nightmare to having an engineer spend a few days to hack a “public domain” user that automatically accepts re-use, or re-train to distinguish interpretations from copies… I feel like I’m missing something — and I’m not missing a cynical take on how Google is too big to care.

God knows that I’ve been arguing that some problems are harder than one expects, but public domain sheet music isn’t a hard one for YouTube.
For all of those issues you can dryly resolve them by selecting whichever choice maximizes profit. By eliminating moralizers from its ranks, Basecamp can now make decisions that only consider profit.
Shiv Sena is for sure known for their thuggery and being a party of regionalistic goons. They're hardly very different from their erstwhile allies the BJP though.
Not quoting the full statement is less than honest.

“Most of content we read on newspapper is false, not intentionnaly but because of lack of seriousness of the profession.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...
It's all fun and games until they try to use lerna, when they discover it tries to determine packages that have changed since the last tag but says all packages are brand new, because all of their tags are now dangling somewhere after the commit they were attached to got squashed.
I think SV lives too much in a bubble.

The company got lots of free press from this. There will be many who will agree with Basecamp’s stance.

Basecamp will easily hire new people.

There are many who would love to work at a top SV company with strong values and a good culture where they do not have to worry about being cancelled by their fellow employees for not towing the progressive line.

Other companies would have similarly good results proposing similar measures I would expect.

There is a large contingent of SV developers who are just plain toxic. They make themselves feel better and avoid feeling with their own personal issues by targeting others.

They problem is they do great things for the software community because they have a drive sustained by trying to fix everything around them instead of things they can’t fix about themselves.

So we need them, and enable them, but suffer the consequences. Which is where I think DHH and Freid got cut by the double edged sword.
If you're looking for people with moderately thick skin who don't seek to find offense everywhere, a good place to start is to avoid the folks who wrote this blog post:

> every discussion remotely related to politics, advocacy, or society at large quickly spins away from pleasant. You shouldn't have to wonder if staying out of it means you're complicit, or wading into it means you're a target. These are difficult enough waters to navigate in life, but significantly more so at work. It's become too much. It's a major distraction.

https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5

There's absolutely no reason to believe that there were any "ultra-sensitive trigger-warning micro-aggression seeking activists" at Basecamp among the employees. All we have is a blog post from someone who is overly sensitive to reasonable professional conversations and didn't want to deal with "unpleasant" conversations at work. It's a story told from that person's perspective and we shouldn't take it as absolute truth.
If it's unconstitutional go challenge it in the courts instead of bickering about it in "hacker" "news"
Googling his name seems to indicate that he was not CTO but "VP of IT Operations at Netflix"

https://onalytica.com/blog/posts/interview-mike-kail/
Covers of songs, even if the covers use completely new styles are protected by copyright law and therefore can risk being claimed by YouTube's system:

https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/posting-cover-songs-on-yo...
> They have a list of funny names, got called out on it, and didn't like that

Not at all true - they dealt with it extensively internally, agreed it shouldn't have happened, etc. But folks kept analogizing the list of funny name to genocide.
As a New Zealander, it pains me to see how Aboriginal Australians were (and still are) treated.
In NZ, we're not perfect, but holy moly Australia is 50 years behind us.
Friends in Budapest tell me it’s getting better, but they recently opened up outdoor drinking venues for the first time since November and everything was packed, no distancing and no masks, so I hope it doesn’t backfire.

Interestingly, Hungary already has vaccine passports. Not sure if they’re used for anything but I’ve seen them, same size/shape as the national ID card, and chipped. A lot of my friends got Sputnik instead of AZ, they were offered a choice.
Note that there are other non-mining activities that can also put the hurt on an SSD. Distributed computing projects such as BOINC can also get their licks in.

World Community Grid has just put up a GPU application for their COVID-19 BOINC project (at this point, let's call it the equivalent of a 1.0 release), and some users have reported an average of 20 MB/second of continuous writes during the project-wide stress test that's going on. It makes me exceedingly glad that I put my project directory on spinning rust. Others have been using ramdisks to spare their SSDs.
All about small government until corporations hurt their feelings. Then they’re a stone’s throw away from nationalizing said corporation.

The sheer hypocrisy. I really wonder what it’s like to be constantly performing such mental gymnastics. Surely it gets tiring? Apparently not.

Anyways, this legislation will probably be laughed out of the courts.
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I did hole digging (more like trench picking actually) and it was the most arduous, laborious, straining, exhausting job I ever had to do, bar none. So hard you get to learn a lot of new adjectives.

Picking is even an art form, because done badly.. most of the energy will backfire right into your hands and wrists. I was utterly surprised how fine you need to operate that mass to ensure your 8000 hits per day won't destroy you.
It's a contradiction because it's an incorrect overload of the word "server".
International spectators are not allowed at the Olympics this time. And there will be strict protocols for athletes. Not sure how this can cause such a massive new wave.
At my college, some of the computer science coed fraternity leadership tried to convince us that even if someone couldn't do fizzbuzz they were still a programmer.
Thank you! This is very interesting! <3
Modi is responsible, but not due to rallies and religious festivals. Surge in cases weren't related to these events.

The trend lines were rising a month ago and government was waiting for someone sort of miracle to change its direction.

No one really knows why cases in India fell to such low numbers and why they increased suddenly.
The reasons why ppl go to YT are monetization and visibility.
Do you also work for free?

If you cannot pay, just dont read the article or use some workarounds.
I did, it was Intel 330.

It was in a machine running Ubuntu and manifested in such a way, that during kernel update (linux-headers, i.e. writing lot of small files, to be more specific) it just gave up and became unresponsive until power cycle. It still did work during normal, user usage when the demand on it was light.
I think the centralization plus trusting a company is the issue, not a lack of cost meaning we aren't deserving of a good experience.

Look at Peertube or other free as in freedom options.
The spike is big, but not dead people hanging from the trees big. Hospitals are well over capacity, staff is over-overworked, and there was a recent new change in the law that regulates healthcare workers. 5-6 thousand HC workers declined the new forced change, so even less staff available.

At the same time people are getting vaccinated, but the gross incompetence of the government doesn't help. (Just yesterday the website where people ought to schedule an appointment for getting a vaccine was offline day due to too much load.)

While the death/capita indicator peaked our wise leader opened the terraces of pubs and restaurants.

... I'm aware that a well ventilated terrace on a dry sunny day carries a relatively very low risk of transmission, but still. It's complete bollocks to do this without any contact tracing, any testing, etc. (That said, it's important to note that people were already not social distancing, but now it's trivial to get infected by total strangers, plus now those can infect a lot more random folks. Whereas before the opening at least people were able to do some informal checks and tracing.)
ARM should jump on the opportunity and support Rust in their qualified toolchain. (Since LLVM can target ARM)
I get the impression English is not their first language. I will say I've seen articles with worse reasoning and better language also. So as distracting as the errors are, this is far from the lowest quality article I've seen here.
Meh, who cares what they think of someone’s name. They too have the right to free speech.

Your comment only serves to distract from what OP is about.
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Slightly offtopic comment.

I have been on HN for over six months now and I admire how people here can go into deep discussions, unlike, let's say Reddit.

But it seems like there is a lot of noise on HN now, with poorly written articles like these, which I think makes HN less appealing.

I urge the people to not upvote these posts to the front page.
How did you figure out your pricing strategy?
Most likely they wouldn't stay at home but either would start their own small business (which would be more competitive now since people with employees have to pay them a livable wage) or, if they can be supported by their partner and not work, do something that's important for society but doesn't pay well (e.g. caring for your family, or for people in your community, writing, creating art).

I'd call it a wrong conclusion to assume that the thing that people do to unwind after a busy workday or what people do who are unable to work due to depression is the same as what people undertake when they can sustain themselves without spending the majority of their waking hours commuting and working.
Around 1995 or so I was learning C, and my cousin showed me algorithm (as in steps) to solve a simple 3x3 magic square (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_square). Didn’t have ready access to computer back then, so I wrote the C program on a paper, debugged and ran it mentally and when I was satisfied, got to my fathers’ office that had a computer, luckily with the C compiler.

Typed down the program from paper and it compiled but simply won’t run, no output whatsoever. After hours of struggling, finally figured I had put semicolons after every single statement including all the ‘if’s and ‘for’s. Once I got rid of them, it worked flawlessly.

It was the first program I wrote by myself.
Sometimes when I push myself too hard I find that I become incapable of resting. Even if I’m very tired I can’t sleep properly because I keep having these “loops”, such that the moment I would fall asleep my whole body jolts and I’m thrown back to this half-asleep state, and this keeps repeating seemingly for hours.
I can't understand why Youtube has no procedure to flag companies as "Wicca Moonlight” like scammer / troll so, after a certain number of infractions like that one ( pretending to be the rightful owner of the rights on BEETHOVEN music !), they are sanctioned in some way or banned. That to add some symmetry to the procedure to fight trolls trying to steal other peoples hard job.
There's no chip.

https://www.google.com/search?q=v%C3%A9detts%C3%A9gi+igazolv...

It allows people to go to bathhouses for example. Also it grants exemption from quarantine and PCR testing upon (re)entry to the country.
At least DMCA has a perjury clause. It seems like there is no punishment for spamming frivolous takedown notices on YT.
The 4k number is the official number which you cannot trust, it will be more than that, some comments here are saying its 2x - 5x the official number.
What is an 'abnormal operation' for a SSD?

In my understanding an SSD is a storage device that allows to write and read data.

Does 'mining Chia Coin' involve anything else/different than writing and reading data - what the SSD is made for?
> banning any DEI initiatives

That's not actually what they've said though, is it? They're moving responsibility for DEI back into HR (they call it People Ops)[0]. I have pretty mixed feelings on HR as a company function[1] and choice of profession, but that's far from a ban on DEI initiatives.

(I don't dispute your comment that committees have been dissolved.)

[0] The original "Changes at Basecamp" blog post literally says, "The responsibility for DEI work returns to Andrea, our head of People Ops,": https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5
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Even the Basecamp article they reference has this gem pretty early on: "As cliché as it may sound". Poor writing is everywhere online
Lack of technical bandwidth, for the most part. To break down our decision-making: EKS was the most widely requested from the beginning, we have the most collective experience on GKE, and we wanted a cheaper option with DO. And between the three of us, none of us have experience on Azure.

But we're working on Azure support first, and then looking at some smaller providers. I would expect the first Azure rollout in ~4 weeks.
This is great! I also like your other posts in the series on tiny-hdl. Thank you for writing this up!
And there must be employees who privately made a decision to leave.
Wouldn't it be enough if the website is accessible from Florida to count as doing business with Floridians?

A real "fuck you" would be for FB and Twitter to display "This website is not available in Florida because of your state government's laws". Hah, could they bring down that government that way? That would open another box of madness...

(I hate Zuck and Twitter, but Florida state government are bigger scumbags)
The reorder buffer size is practically limited by branch prediction probability, not decode bandwidth though.
I've been struggling with this same question the past two years by scaling up a machine learning team (our job was to design and put into production various machine learning-based products for the company). When the team was small, there was no way we could create a product team (no enough product managers or machine learning engineers). So we started with skills. But it came with its lot of inconvenience: hard to align people across the various roadmap. Some teams were swamped and had a hard time prioritizing. Beside, teams by skills tend not to understand their constraints and way of working (thing product manager vs developer culture clash). Honestly, I feel that the product organization is the more efficient one in delivery and team alignment. But this requires vast resources if you manage a lot of different products (this was our case). And in the end, you can end up with doing some things twice or not investing enough in the common assets/architecture (my team was in charge of managing our data platform as well, so we had to think long-term and global at the same time). I quit my job by if I were still here, I would definitively cut back on the number of projects and rearrange the team by products.
Yes, I get it and my comment was intended tongue-in-cheek. But still... not everyone goes to YT for monetization in which case I really think it's just better not to use it. I'm probably too old but I remember a time when we had plenty of visibility on the web without platforms dictating the content.
Before HNers waste a lot of time debating pointlessly, here's the facts about how Youtube works:

Youtube has a 2-level copyright complaint scheme:

1) Youtube Content ID system - almost all complaints are handled by Youtube with their internal process. Essentially most musical performances are demonetized unless you're the music publisher, and occasionally for legit uploaders a copyright claim is made.

The Content ID system was very likely developed as part of the settlement agreement with labels, where Google spent about $1 billion in legal fees.

If you don't follow YT's instructions and instead protest, then you risk having your account locked. So most uploaders back off.

Fair use is not respected by YT normally, because they don't have to under their internal system.

(What's interesting is that after a famous rock song by a Youtube-famous cover artist was blocked, it was unblocked a few months later with the original view count also restored. That one was weird - very hmmm.)

2) US federal copyright legal process - rarely used for Youtube because #1.

Fair use is a defense if you file a lawsuit and win. (Using less than 10 seconds approx. for educational purposes.)

Source: I advise a famous Youtube artist on US publishing issues.
> the prices given for consumers assume that they are not going to max out the bandwidth all the time

Consumers should be free to violate any and all assumptions with no negative consequences. Especially unstated ones that only people familiar with their business model would know about.

If an ISP advertises 1 gigabit/second internet, consumers should be able to fill that pipe with 1 gigabit of data every second. In practice only a minority is going to do that but it should be possible with no punitive throttling of bandwidth whatsoever.
> You are trying to defend something I did not ask you about

> so try fucking focusing

Says the person who completely ignores everything I say, and only goes "Apple bad, Apple bad, Apple bad"

> I don't care

Indeed.

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I will not engage in this conversation further.
Author here, I'm sorry for that, I know I'm not very good at writing this king of articles. And that's exactly why I wrote this one, to improve. If you have any resources that could help me improve I would like to hear them. Thank you
The CPU needs to make the overheard signals look just like random noise. A cheap XOR-stream (compare 2FA like Google Authenticator, or the remote in your car keys) should cover that.
Most journalists are just not very good at their profession, they synthesize their content online through social media which has had disastrous downstream effects.

There are a few writers who do groundwork, travel and report from the field but sadly they’re becoming increasingly rare.
I think this idea could be taken further: just build physical machines with lower capacity (RAM, cores), rather than filling data-centers with top-spec hardware then dividing them up with virtualisation. On the face of it at least, this seems like an idea worth taking seriously. With the right form-factor, I imagine it shouldn't even have much of an impact on space efficiency or power efficiency. Perhaps the CPU companies just aren't interested in making such hardware?
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Hey great suggestion. I think it probably would fit in a backpack! However, would be good if it was a bit lighter and smaller. There is no minimum criteria for portable but ideally way under 1kg and easily foldable. I will explore more stands of similar design thanks!
Heard of Donald Trump? He became President making fun of people the whole day.

And who believes that would have been possible without Twitter's amplification algos encouraging the behavior with Likes and Followers.
There's actually not a lot of parts in a dishwasher, I'm curious what gave you trouble with your unit.