skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, no hard evidence. I've just been reading the NYT online for the past year or so and have been struck by the number of articles portraying speech policing as a real problem coming from the left.

I don't know if the NYT generally shifted from more neutral to more progressive, just that they perceive the excesses of wokism in education and media as a real problem.
> political views

I'm not talking about political views, but the civil rights of minorities.

Calling civil rights 'political views' is an old, simple tactic of denying people's rights.
Sure, but that's not the point they were trying to make in the post.
My bank accounts and credit cards have all essentially forced modern 2FA implementation over the past few years (USA). And the handful of times I've had fraudulent activity on my cards, it's been reversed and settled within a matter of days. From my perspective I actually think modern banking (again, USA-specific) has been improving pretty rapidly in terms of customer experience (shout out to Ally Bank).
Red Tape Threatens to Strangle Classic Vehicle Trade, 100k skilled jobs at risk
Zoom is for everyone at this point, because a huge number of people have had to install it for WFH/SFH.
Notepad++ drops Bing after “tank man” censorship
So did Lively, apparently

> originally created by Dan Ingalls at Sun Microsystems
Repl.it is based in California where noncompetes are especially difficult to enforce.

https://www.callahan-law.com/are-non-competes-enforceable-in...

Specifically California Business and Professions Code Section 16600,

“every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.”

In addition such issues must by law be decided in California courts and if they forced the issue into court and lost they would be liable for the cost of his defense.

Even outside of California there are limits to what you can enforce. Judges aren't liable to find that an infinite duration noncompete reasonable.

Another example in Washington State its now impossible to obtain noncompetes for anyone paid less than a rate of 100k per annum as an employee or 250k per annum as a contractor and they are limited to 18 months duration.

If you improperly assert a noncompete you are liable for 5000 or actual damages whichever is greater.

They are probably not asserting a noncompete because it is functionally impossible for them to do so. They would have to assert that he was making use of trade secrets or that in some nebulous way his design belonged to them. eg trade dress

https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/intellectual-property/...

The answer is you need a lawsuit to decide but probably not.
Engaging with trolls is also discouraged by the HN guidelines. You're engaging in a tactic called "just asking questions"[0], they're loaded questions, and given your post history its unlikely you'll engaged in good faith if someone takes the time to respond to explain precisely why they're not simply wrong, but intended to harm people and erode their rights.

[0]: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
Be nice if it had its own collaborative git repo system
what a bully. he really punched down. some Weinstein style "You'll never work in this town again!" energy.
The incentives for finding exploits is free, irreversible, almost-untraceable money. It is hard to beat that and is why these platforms keep being exploited no matter how hard devs try to find bugs.
Good stuff ;) An alternarive theory competing meta-rationality. And also complementing it a bit :)
I found this part quite insightfull:

"Some freely emulate other Sociopaths. Others carve out more imaginative paths. Morality becomes a matter of expressing fundamental dispositions rather than respecting social values. Kindness or cruelty, freely expressed. Those who are amused by suffering use their powers to cause it. Those who enjoy watching happiness theaters, create them through detached benevolence."
I believe it was something to do with the VirnetX patent troll lawsuits that prevented them from fulling that standard.
> If you only support free speech (or transparency) in cases where you agree with the actors, you don't really support free speech at all.

I agree.

Lately I've been seeing a lot of people arguing against free speech claiming that pro-free-speech people don't actually care about free speech, but rather they only want free speech for the views they care about. In other words, "we should get rid of free speech rights because people who appeal to them are insincere". Which is undoubtedly true for lots of people, and this isn't new to this cultural moment--hypocrites have been part of every movement forever.

But "some of those people are disingenuous!" doesn't seem like a good reason to deny someone their rights. Indeed, free speech has been a boon to left-wing groups in the past and it certainly will be again in the future (to the extent it survives the present moment, anyway), even though they are clearly insincere in their free speech convictions (seeking to explicitly destroy it and all that). Destroying free speech just because you happen to have the cultural power is incredibly short-sighted.

I will say that I'm happy the debate has moved beyond "but you free speech people don't get it--we're only talking about banning speech that I don't like" and "you can't support free speech and criticize my anti-free-speech advocacy" and so on.
These days, and also 8 years ago (Amazon Alexa), and 26 years ago (Microsoft Bob), and 38 years ago (Apple Lisa)…
So if we all switch to crypto then the incentives to go to war would go away? How does that even supposed to work? We go to war for 1) land 2) resources 3) religion/various -isms. Crypto solves none of these (well, it potentially makes (2) worse).
I’m not American, but my ex is, and she told me California has unusually good food stamps. Can someone here confirm or refute that?
>In my opinion, the answer to this question is no, for a number of reasons:

but did you use "internal" knowledge of repl it in order to build it?
Unfortunately I don't think you'll get a genuine response.

It'd be fascinating to watch someone to try and recreate concepts from cryptography without the crypto though!
You can build reversibility on top of non-reversible platforms. Not the other way around. Look into bitcoin “vaults” for some interesting research in this area.
This is Q: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_K...
And this, sort of, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_(programming_language)

So, how many Q's do we have now?
I am so jealous of your lived experience
I have nothing against his methods. Yes, he put customers at ease. But it's a false sense of security. And that is what I'm opposed to.
I don't really know of one.. I don't think automation is ever shunned as long as it is useful and known to be useful.
Everyone likes things that save time.

There is an essentially an unrestricted demand for healthcare across the world.. they will use the time to either talk to their patients more (or start to if they don't already).. or they will move into other medical fields.. or increase the volume of screening.. (may be harmful, but that's another matter). They probably don't want to do it as it won't really save them much time. OR it will save them time and they have been burnt before. For example, early voice recognition was very poor and over promised. Stopped me using it for ages after it became fairly good. It's still not actually better than typing, but it is closer now. Let's all focus on voice recognition that works before moving on to grander plans....
"Why not simply" has strong implication that the other party is stupid not being able to come to a "simple" solution.
> Is it phone-number based IDs? Or can I pick a username or get a random ID?

You can use FaceTime without a phone number. Just create an Apple account, then give your contact your AppleID associated email address to add to their contact card for you and you have a working FaceTime destination.
What is the backup / restore story in FoundationDB? How does it compare to postgresql?
G7 moves to raid Amazon in new global corporate tax plan
US recovers some of the money paid in the Colonial Pipeline ransom say officials
Thanks for the correction. I’ve also read that FaceTime had to change from p2p to using a central server for call coordination after they were sued for patent violations. I wonder if that’s really what prevented it from being opened up.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/31/21543315/apple-ordered-p...
When will the new macbooks be announced?
Maybe it does? Implementing a barebone GitHub-like experience is basically built into git, and I can’t imagine how this product would work without something like what you’re talking about.
This is because Prisma doesn’t yet work with Node 16. So not something specific to Blitz.

We have speed improvements on the way.
They are probably making hand wavey threats because in actuality they have nothing.
I think the HN community is very critical and skeptical in general. They're good at pointing out flaws and criticizing them, but that's the good reason we're all here. If you just want to hear flourishes you should go to crypto reddit or something.
A collection of poetry leftover from the night before
The usual reasoning behind this is to confirm the phone is properly functioning before opening it up.

Lots of people try to scam repair shops bringing broken phones in.

On top of that repairs can often break fingerprint scanner connections and depending on the screen type its good to check camera functionality after screen replacement.
> It's not unambiguously true that freedom-of-speech itself is substantially responsible for anyone's loss of other rights.

It is unambiguously true that speech has caused it. Speech is the source of almost all political activity - guns rarely play a role.
Did you have fraudulent transactions on a non-CC? CC companies have rules on them that make it easy to fight fraud. Non-CC accounts... not so much.
My guess is if they want to roll out wider competitive support for FaceTime, they just need to take their web version, which is probably a PWA, and wrap it in Electron for Windows and whatever the heck Android does with PWAs to put on the Play Store, and add the ability to log in.

This is a good first step though, and given I know people who only have Duo to video chat with their non-iOS contacts, this is going to be a blow to some competitors when that's no longer needed.
I am probably older than the OP, but computers that are 100 times faster today are having sometimes more lag than 30 years ago. I am thinking about Teams and Visual Studio Code that I use a lot, Teams is the first IM client where I start typing and multiple letters are lost until Teams starts to catch my input, while opening a small SQL script file in VS Code looks like a slideshow displaying the text first, then adding color coding and at the end highlighting errors - all in several seconds on modern Ryzen 5600X CPU with lots of RAM. A native app can probably do all this in a small fraction of the time.
But I literally don't want non-reversible transactions. I cannot think of a case where non-reversibility is desired. I understand you can build reversibility on top, but why? Better to just have an underlying fully-reversible platform -- something that traditional finance is moving towards.

Edit: looking at vaults looks like it is just a way to secure your cold storage wallet. But I want reversibility in my hot wallets, that's the one that's most likely to be compromised anyways.
Seems like something to take people’s attention off their other walled gardens.
Yes, we're going through the process now. It's really difficult and appears to me to be deliberately obfuscated - the "opt out" on the NHS website is not the one you want, instead you want the form which you have to send to your local GP. And it's extra effort if you have children (make sure you understand the difference between type 1 and type 2 optouts, oh "and by the way the types changed and we're automatically converting the records for historical reasons").

Plus 'nudge' tactics are out to play in full force - I particularly dislike the pre-emptive strike at social media implying information there would be false despite there not actually being anything on there at the time (I say this as someone who loathes Facebook et al with a passion).

I guess there's a lot of money at stake (there's gold in them thar personal medical records).
Eh, personally I appreciate the blog. It's good to know who to avoid in the industry, and the accusation about trade secrets seems way overblown and egotistical. It's not that hard to figure out how to run a container when you push a button, or else said sites wouldn't be so common.
The general trend is that smaller practices are going away. More and more physicians are becoming employees of larger provider organizations. Small practices just aren't very viable any more because they lack the negotiating power to get high reimbursement rates from payers, and they don't have the economies of scale necessary to comply with interoperability mandates.

When new physicians complete their training fewer and fewer go on to start or join smaller practices.
Thanks for providing your rationale.

I reject it. NAP is an extraordinarily convenient and frequent cover for genocide, and arguably arose from just that basis.
> but tbh they kinda hurt the value prop of some stuff I’m working on haha

That's why we are all tuned in to Apple conferences, Pavlovian conditioning of potential stressor
I was at National Semiconductor at the time. National used to own quite a bit of the non-processor silicon on computers of the time. When National bought Cyrix, Intel made sure National lost all those sockets.
Surely "Draft Dodger" or something is a better name.
What's the point of it? I'm sure there are many "journalists" watching their fillings capable of forming articles with textual headlines and content.

EDIT: Sounds more like trolling and FT ate the bait.
> We need UBI.

Islam provided it over 1400 years ago.
What you wrote is an invention. Code is law came from, let's say, "techno utopians" that really believed you can programatically organize this way. See the concept of DAO for example.

So, code is law came from programmers that thought code is law. It's not a misunderstanding.

The ETH fork was caused about the difference wrt code is law.
We are still pre 1.0. Obviously lots of room for improvment still :)
It says in the final credits: "no Ipads were harmed in the making of this event." [1]

[1]: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcbGVA8nAYJN1pjXYHjUfrnAJAoCob1vxRvsAH...
>They may not be able to win a judgment against you, but they can easily bankrupt you.

this depends on where the case is brought really. and if they can get any money from you there. Which is often partially effected by where you live.
Decentralisation, guaranteed immutability, entirely trustless system are the things that made a bitcoin worth tens of thousands with a market cap of hundreds of millions. Otherwise it would be worth nothing, it's just a record in a public database.

There are people (many, smart people) literally paying millions or billions to add a simple record to that database; there's many more- hackers, organised criminals, state agencies, that would love to able to change that record. The amount of pressure that that simple database is able to withstand, and the amount of trust that has been able to gain, are mind blowing. So that's a success, I'd say.
Taking male bodied people imprisoned for being found guilty of rape and putting them in women's prison is a radical (and probably extremely unpopular) public policy. WoLF is arguing that the public should be allowed to know what the corrections department is doing here.

I find it highly ironic that defending the speech rights of Nazi's might be considered going too far because of the "harm" the speech might cause and consideration of the potential "victims" of the speech, but in a case where a male rapist is going to be put in a cell with a female prisoner with no means of escaping him, that male rapist's right to privacy is the only consideration.

There is a legitimate debate about the rights of male people to be housed in prison with a female population. Maybe a male prisoner has that right, maybe he doesn't–society is still up in the air on this question. It's impossible to have that debate, however, if the entire process is being handled behind closed doors by fiat and then the information is hidden.
Because code is not law. "I didnt commit that crime, a computer committed that crime" will not fly with a judge for a microsecond.
TLDR: We tolerate the super rich because Adam Smith.

Illuminating. Thanks.
Yes. The answer is trivial if you look up their history and it goes against your claims.

Here is one recent extreme example https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-em-defends-kkks-rig...
If Apple's legal team would not have tried to recover the money from the authorized repair place this would still be under NDA and no one would have known. Of course the authorized resellers' insurance will try to avoid paying anything.

I wonder if Apple legal now thinks the 5 million would have been worth eating to avoid this PR disaster.
> We should absolutely act now to ensure their right, including their free speech rights both now and into the future.

Nice to hear, but how do you plan to do it? The rest of your comment ignores the problem, which is what has happened for generations.
I think it's worth supplementing this experimental approach with some data on how the marketplace of ideas actually operates:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146

https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epj...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/information-overl...

In a nutshell, there are only 24 hours in a day and humans have limited cognitive capacity; news and factual assertions tend to propagate fastest based on perceived significance and urgency, and it's easy to fake those qualities.

Informally, consider the existence of tabloid newspapers and clickbait advertising on most news sites. I'm sure you're familiar with companies like Taboola and Outbrain that put up ads with iconic imagery and headlines like 'cure unwanted medical condition with this one weird trick' or 'Insider secret revealed: professionals hate him' etc. etc. Now, you can block ads with the help of an extension if you're technically competent, but let's face it, the web is awash in fake content. If you go to a popular news site without any adblocking software, it's absolute hot garbage, and sadly you can easily find a correlation between particular ideological tendencies and the incidence of garbage.

The bottom line here is that that dishonesty is profitable and in marketplace of ideas terms that means it's easier to sell a defective product than a reliable one, because people prioritize emotional activation over truth. So picture the marketplace of ideas a a bunch of ideologues shouting out their thoughts on everything from the right end from which to eat an egg to what humanity's overall priorities should be. Now picture that the more successful ideologues purchase megaphones, platforms, and eventually gian sound systems. A naive consumer entering this marketplace is naturally going to accord the greatest weight to the loudest signals because it requires a tremendous amount of work to do otherwise.
Interesting that they are deprecated because volatile locals have specific guarantees with regard to longjmp.
Why are we making excuses for highly paid professionals behavior in the public performance of their job.
Firing on and sinking a flagged vessel and possibly killing crew (also, how do you then prove that you DIDN'T kill anyone?) is exactly the kind of thing that gets governments openly involved. Seizing a private vessel and fining the owners? That's a civil matter and while there may be backroom discussions everything stays civil.

"The military of Country X is firing on and sinking our country's vessels" is much more likely to lead to retaliation. China may not have the navy or willingness to project power across the Pacific, but I guarantee they have the capability if focused to utterly destroy the computing infrastructure of the country - and while enthusiastic private parties may not get involved in civil penalties, "Argentina just declared war on us!" is a hell of a rallying cry.

Edit: also keep in mind that even governments are not monolithic entities with a single mind. Those costs are coming out of someone's budget.
ignorant q: does Messenger still hold much of market share? over the last few years almost all of my contacts transitioned to WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal. Messenger is just way too bloated.
Do you?

Please, offer something material as a contibution instead of making fun of other people.

My understanding that it this will probably pass a lawyers sniff test and expert testimony means that developers have to testify that the codebases are different.
Are tasks like responding to emails and adding comments limited by typing speed ? I would have guessed most typing tasks aside from copying text are limited by knowing what to type.
lets be real, his response is the kind of thing you hear from someone whose ship is sinking and starts lashing out in every direction
Note that exploitable weaknesses in Intel SGX affect the security promises of Signal Messenger & the associated MobileCoin, such as:

* whether the contacts-upload & messaging metadata regularly sent through Signal's SGX enclaves remains private against compromises at Signal

* how much traffic analysis can be applied to partially de-anonymize MobileCoin flows
There is a bit more character development in new Weir’s book - Project Hail Mary, but it still is a great book. Not as great as The Martian, but solid second.
yeah, Github and other git-companies implement so many expected features on top of the git protocol that is hard to distinguish which things are the protocol and which things aren't

for example, a pull request to teammates is not part of the git protocol, but is something I would like to see in an Xcode Cloud implementation. there is a command that summarizes things from a series of commits but it isn't the same, imo
There is an interesting "converse" to this observation for open-source projects, though. Namely: if a nontrivial abandoned project is still widely used, it probably represents a major career opportunity for anyone willing to take over maintenance.

This isn't purely hypothetical: it's the foundation of my own career.
Doesn't seem like much of a "backfire", it gave Apple big strides in the US market and at worst resulted in less people using a free service Apple has to pay to operate in other markets.
> I have 1 of these still in an array and my second to last one died a few weeks ago

Exact same story here.

With the exception of one of the Seagates that did die really early (< 1 year) the rest of them had the same lifetime as my 2TB WD Reds.

I certainly wouldn't recommend them given their track record but it does seem this issue is a tad overblown.
True, I think the HN moderators have an anti-crypto mandate.

Which is odd considering Coinbase was a YC unicorn. Besides AirBNB how many unicorns did YC finance throughout the years?
> First-class types. This lets you the programmer to tell the compiler what you intend to do in your program. Then, like a helpful robot assistant, the compiler will check to make sure that what you're actually doing matches those expressed intentions.

So static typing? Or am I missing something?
Last week: learned ransomeware has blown up because of crypto.

Today: learned it's blowing up fraudulent Craigslist sales and scams.

BUt MaH lIbErTiEs (AnD gAiNs!!!!)

I cannot wait for the bubble to pop forever.