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Public social media is really fundamentally different from traditional media because it functions as the public square in a way that traditional media never did.

As such, it needs to be evaluated and regulated as the novel thing that it is. It's not a newspaper and it's not a telephone company, and it's time to stop trying to apply old regulatory arguments and mindsets to the new situation.

So far, attempts to regulate social media show barely an understanding of the problem at hand, but I hope we can recognize that there needs to be defined a novel regulatory framework to prevent tragedy of the commons or heavy handed ideological censorship on public social media networks

In the meantime, the value of privately owned and operated, and invite-only social networks (like setting up your own Mattermost or IRC servers) will continue to go up in relation to public networks, because only in tight knit private communities can anyone actually speak their mind.
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Seems to be on the rise in the UK as well
Isn't iodine deficiency a common thing?
This a very US-specific observation. While yes mid-century planners did some very stupid things and were kind of control freaks, the privately-held land baseline that preceded them is not at all universal. See the other posts' great examples.

Also, we now have the automobile to content with. The car is a like a gene drive, a self-perpetuating technology like we had never seen before, radically upending status-quo-ante system dynamics. (The reasons being a) Cars push everyone else off the streets, b) car-driven development spreads everything way to far apart for anything else to be practical.)

The market alone can't defeat cars any more than evolution can defeat gene drives. Only social failure / extension (and heaven forbid horizontal gene transfer!) can rain them in "endogenously".
I remember installing MythTV around 2003. They very strongly insisted on backing it with MySQL, and it make it a lot harder to set up and maintain. Unless a DB is serving multiple hosts, something like SQLite really is the way to go. It also makes it halfway easy to have a simple, single-host setup, along with a path to a multi-host setup, since it's SQL (though you still have to real with dialect quirks).
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It has nothing to do with people killing you because you’re unpopular; it’s to do with the fact that if you seriously violate arbitration agreements it becomes too expensive to buy protection.
Related Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27415813
That actually makes sense to me. If I feel secure, I feel carefree. Maybe there should be a different word when providing a secure environment from the word where people enjoy that secure environment.
I have heard some consultant telling me that we don't need consistency because the real world is not consistent.

He also told that if we wanted eventual consistency, modern systems do this automagically, but he could not tell how they do it.
lol...good luck with that....tech is already bailing....i can't imagine one reason to domicile a business in the bay area at this point....it's over.....
Let's hope thats it because the only logical alternative I can think of is that they want the ability to ship binaries with proprietary modifications, or allow others to do the same.
And even Smalltalk/80 was light years ahead of pretty much any IDE that came much later. It is a whole OS with integrated development and debugging tools.
> In any case, a lot of the slowness we pay for toady is in exchange of actually being able to deal with the complexities necessary to achieve those things in reasonable time/cost.

This is also debatable at least.

Just a few weeks ago it turned out that the new Windows Terminal can only do color output at 2fps [1].

The very infuriating discussion in the GitHub tracker ended up with a Microsoft tea member saying that you need a " an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation" to do colored output. I kid you not. [2]

Of course, the entire "doctoral research" is 82 lines of code [3]. There will be a continuation of the saga [4]

And that is just a very small, but a very representative example. But do watch Casey's rant about MS Visual Studio [5]

You can see this everywhere. My personal anecdote is this: With the introduction of new M1 macs Apple put it front and center that now Macs wake up instantly. For reference: in 2008 I had the exactly same behaviour on a 2007 Macbook Pro. In the thirteen years since the software has become so bad, that you need a processor that's anywhere from 3 to 15 times more powerful to barely, just barely, do the same thing [6].

The upcoming Windows 11 will require 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage space just for the empty, barebones operating system alone [7]. Why? No "wifi works reliably" or "trackpad doesn't suck" can justify any of this.

[1] https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1401761848022560771

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...

[3] https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1405356794495442945

[4] https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1406755159347130371

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-0tCy4P1U

[6] https://gadgetversus.com/processor/apple-m1-vs-intel-core-2-...

[7] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifica...
Thanks for the correction - I’d entirely forgotten that Newton got spun off!
Don’t just think in terms of low density around current American cities.

Plopping down a subdivisions in a sleepy county can quickly overwhelm local school systems, sewage treatment, etc. Even just 7% annual growth doubles the local population every decade which requires incredible and increasing investments in infrastructure. Slowing that down slightly is hardly unreasonable and it can help avoid expensive and damaging boom / bust cycles.
Who is the modern Copernicus? Alex Jones? The church that advocates drinking bleach? Nazis? Neo-Stalinists?

I used to be absolutely on the “free speech at any cost” side. I guess if you pinned me to the wall I sort of still would be, but my heart is just not in the fight.

First they came for the Nazis, and I didn’t do anything because I wasn’t a Nazi.

Then they came for the medical quacks telling people not to get vaccinated and to treat COVID by drinking bleach… during a global pandemic…

Then they came for the people who thought the Earth was flat.

Then they came for the misogynists and the advocates of sexual persecution.

Then they came for the cult of personality that wanted a reality TV star and the My Pillow guy to stage a fascist coup.

Oh no… who are they coming for next?!?

If it were just a bunch of liars and fools yelling into the wind I wouldn’t care. The really terrifying thing is how gullible people are. It seems like 1/3 of the population roughly will believe literally anything if it plays to their biases. Anything. There seems to be no bottom of the barrel.

I picture a future with hordes of millions of gullible fools who can be commanded like armies by social media demagogues. This is exactly how the Rwandan genocide worked except it was talk radio commanding those machete wielding armies not Facebook. We used to poke fun at places like that for being superstitious and barbaric. After seeing things like flat Earth and Qanon I don’t think anyone can ever point fingers again.
On the contrary, once people realize that a commit hash is something that spans across all branches the real beauty of GIT emerges. You can than and there make decisions on a branch level or at a commit level. The real failure of GIT in my opinion is that people think that they need branches when commits suffice and thereby making things very complicated with zero benefits. #onlywinersdownvote

Edit: Garbage people downvoting as expected. Are you selling garbage to control the garbage or what is wrong with you?
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1) A neighborhood with a lot more people in it has important qualitative differences compared to a sprawl suburb. It can be safe, pleasant, and interesting to walk around. It can support local retail and entertainment which do not require driving to access. It can support fast and frequent transit connections to the broader metro. It can support more variation in the age, life situation, and wealth of the households who live there. This is a far cry from “more of the same.”

2) The problem we’re trying to solve here is that the people who would fill those new units to capacity are instead locked (or pushed) out. Of course if that problem is solved they will instead be here. That’s the whole point of making anything cheaper or more abundant. So that more people can enjoy it.
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From an assembly focused point of view, multiple "return" functions executing is madness. Logically it makes far more sense for the flow of execution to be fully controlled by the return and absolutely depart the function.

I now want languages who's spec allows this insanity to have a sanitizer like C#'s to prevent more footguns.
They go in to further detail about that on https://missingmiddlehousing.com/about/how-to-enable .
I wonder if you could have some kind of mandated enrollment into a but bounty program
Why is MFA supposed to be so much more secure? Aren’t they just sending an authentication hash just like password only? Haven’t these solutions been hacked too? Or am I missing something?
Smalltalk has always been decades ahead of its time and it being slow on, say, the Alto or the Star, was kind of expected. That said, Squeak is very nimble compared to pretty much anything else currently in use. I’ll assume your memory is from the late 90’s and the computers were not particularly fast.
On Spanish, Middle Age Spanish had different spellings for v and b, and c, s and z were spelt differently, all of them closer to Latin.
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I hope you don't see the Forth I wrote in Python ;)

In all seriousness I agree that Assembly and C are probably the best choices for putting together a serious Forth for most work.

Ron's commercial 8th language (very much a Forth) is written in C++ though and that allows him to add in support for a lot of common enterprise needs (ODBC, SQLite, AWS, Android/iOS, Bluetooth, GUI, a bunch of file formats...etc etc) that you almost never see in other Forths. So C++ is a blessing and a curse.
There is another angle I forgot to mention. That is that I also want that each commit can be compiled (depends on the project obviously) and is tested and won’t fail tests. That is super hard to achieve when only testing the last commit of a PR through a push. I mainly want that to help when bisecting. That’s what I achieve by smaller PRs. But again I personally prefers this and lay out my projects and tasks in a way that this actually works for me. I’m not Dogmatic and see the reason for different strategies.
>"Freespin is a Commodore 1541 demo, released in 2021. It runs on the Commodore floppy drive. It is is the first demo on this device. [Without the C64 attached!]

[...]

Freespin generates sound/music using the floppy drive mechanic (in particular, the stepper motor responsible for moving the head to the right track).

Video is generated through the [1541's] serial bus."

PDS: Absolutely amazing!

I have never seen this done before!

Related:

"How freespin bit bangs the video signal"

http://www.quiss.org/freespin/raster.html
> It's not a redundant data structure if you need it to figure out the necessary changes.

And why exactly can't you "figure out the necessary changes" without it?

> Just don't expect to get hired into larger teams easily.

Honestly, I see that as a win-win.
You missed my point.

I agree they are not doing well, but I also do not see why they should’ve, even if the breach didn’t happen.
Not to be meta contrarian but I think everyone understands his pattern of arrogance got the best of him with that fruit based diet from a nutritionist scam.

The people that deify him mostly forget that actually running a company like him means requiring a bailout from your primary competitor, which means failure. edit: ok he wasn't there during that time period. A better example would be other areas of arrogance and not uplifting behavior.
That precedent is, in fact, quite pertinent. Contrast with various platforms' labeling of misinformation, a law mandating such labeling would be wholly consistent.

But we don't even have that. First, the government would need to establish that the people are harmed by the lack of labeling.
Interesting to apply this to the logistics industry, specifically with freight movement costs. A company might use Joe's Trucking for 80% of their shipping needs, but Joe doesn't have trucks that can take a last second shipment to an important customer. So the company calls Hank's Trucking, who specializes in those last second fulfillment.

Both Joe and Hank enjoy the account because both fall into the upper-right quadrant in the article: they're tuned to keep the company's account high margin, and the "drop size" (volume of shipments in this instance) works fine for both outfits. Joe wouldn't want to only do two moves a week for the company, and Hank wouldn't want to do 50.
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Because in some people's environments, if you're not registered with a corp and carrying the latest iPhone or other relevant status symbol, people ask what you're doing with your life & make you feel like a derelict piece of shit.
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I got burned twice by this. Once for some shitty music and years later for a mediocre tv series I could have just watched on my Amazon TV stick instead. The first time I got away by just claiming it wasn't me and promising I'd make sure to prevent any copyright infringement from my connection in the future. There are lawyers who don't do anything else but scan bittorrent traffic all day and shotgun these threats. Mostly from Munich.

Games are free game though, also anything from Usenet is fine. Nowadays you could probably get away with a free ipv6 tunnel too, since adoption is high enough.

Loyal Pirate Gary voter here. Arrrrrr.
>If you want to be really accurate, the women actually participated in a private test that replicated the NASA training program, so NASA had nothing to do with it.

Correct, except the word "training". The Mercury 13 took physiological tests that replicated NASA evaluations of prospective astronaut candidates, nothing more. The Mercury 7 didn't go through a "training program" after selection; such didn't formally start until the shuttle era.

>But the entire point of that private program was the show NASA "hey look women can do this too!". And that's kind of the point.

>That they were only being denied because of their gender.

My point is that the rules weren't put there to exclude women but to screen the applicant pool to make easier identifying those that NASA sincerely thought would be the best candidates. By proactively choosing from active-duty military pilots, for example, the Mercury Seven evaluation board missed out on Neil Armstrong (a civilian). By screening for only those applicants with fighter pilot experience, the Group 2 evaluators would have missed out on Mercury Seven's Scott Carpenter, who flew multiengine planes. By excluding those with a minimum amount of flight hours, Group 3 missed out on Don Lind (physics PhD and Navy fighter vet who didn't meet the minimum). Etc., etc.

Let me repeat: Most men who passed the tests the Mercury 7 and Mercury 13 passed weren't chosen to become astronauts, either. Taken literally, "Mercury 13" would imply that twice as many qualified women astronauts existed in 1959 as men. That's in and of itself ridiculous. To say that the only thing keeping the Mercury 13 from flying into space was an arbitrary NASA decision, and nothing else, is simply not true.
I think it is really hard for speakers of European languages to believe that a language could have the same pronunciation that it had centuries ago.

Obvious example:

Arabic from at least the 7th century AD:

As an Arabic speaker, I can totally read a text the way it was pronounced 14 centuries ago and also perfectly understand it.

You cannot say the same thing for European languages.

Probably the same for sanskrit.
I don’t see the difficulty here — with SQLite, you’d just store the set of links as an adjacency list; for the major job of linking things, you don’t even need to traverse the graph — you only need to know 1-level of relationships to generate the links. But when you do traverse, you can use recursive WITH.

Presumably for each build, you’d parse the names of each doc to produce the list of nodes (and their paths), and then as you encounter the markdown reference, update it accordingly.

If you start afresh each time, handling updates would be trivial, but you’re at risk of destroying existing URLs when changing doc titles/reorganizing — so you probably want a canonical name (to generate the final URL for), and the symbolic names (to refer by in markdown).

And then eventually you realize you want multiple ways to organize your docs, so you start tagging, and then eventually you realize you want ways to reference groups of notes, so you’ll go ahead and implement hierarchal tagging, and you’ll finally have be able to treat your graph as a graph, instead of a forest (list of trees)

And finally you can simplify the whole thing to only reference tags (or parent tags), which may happen to link to a single doc, or multiple. Probably in the special case of 1 doc, the link directly takes you to the doc instead of some collection page.

A document store seems like a terrible idea, because you’re really not modeling a tree, and that’s probably the majority of your modeling problem — I imagine you’re trying to currently stuff a graph into a tree.
Yeah, this is an important question that I've also been answering on Reddit. I think the main use-case once I add more functionality to the project will actually be less aligned with migrating data but more so with caching. I want to build auto-sync and event-driven data transfers so that for example if SQL schema is altered, redis schema will mirror changes accordingly. I also want to give developers more control over how data is being stored in Redis. At the moment I'm using hashes but there are a lot of shortcomings doing so.
My friend this what I mean when Westerners speak about Muslims and Afghans without basic knowledge. Taliban are strict Hanafi Deobandis and are vehemently opposed to Wahhabis (and Daesh).
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> The idea that Jobs had any deep philosophical ponderance of the human condition or introspection on his own mortality is comical.

He was diagnosed with cancer in 2003 and goofed off avoiding treatment for several months.

This visit was in 2010, years later, after knowing his cancer was probably terminal for quite some time. I think 7 years of thinking about it, including writing about how not properly treating his cancer early was a grave mistake, might be enough to give one some "introspection on [his] own mortality".

Your sniping comment does not make much sense.
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As an on-call SRE, this sounds familiar. One-person rotation and all hours is a well-known recipe for burnout. Of course professionally as a software programmer the risks are somewhat different, so I imagine scaling an SRE team is a bit easier (assuming you have revenue/funding). I am extremely grateful that the company I'm at has a follows-the-sun rotation as well being on a well-sized team (imo the ideal size is 8). I've done ops on a tiny team and it burned me out real quick.
Yes to both, though I don't know how to enforce it. (A push hook would do.)
"The Design of Approximation Algorithms" by Williamson and Shmoys

http://www.designofapproxalgs.com/
Seems like kind of a corporate/organizational culture thing. Imperfectly distributed knowledge, hierarchical decision-making in groups with misaligned incentives, the limitations of communication and the capacities of individuals... These and more make it hard to operate a large enterprise intelligently and cohesively, and oversights will happen. Corporations can certainly seem to act dumb or just learn slowly as a whole, regardless of who they're made up of. If you go bigger and look at nation-scale, the same problems are present on a greater level.
I suggest anyone doubting the importance of eliminating all differences between the experimental cohort and the control group to read that speech from Feynman: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm or this article that highlights it's most important part: https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/02/the_rat_experi... .

If I had to reduce that to some phrases I would say : the easiest way to do bad science is to lie to yourself, so to do good science you must foremost learn how not to do that. And avoiding avoidable difference in cohorts is one of the first step to stay honest.
The strange thing is that Microsoft know exactly how many win10 machines already meet this requirement via their telemetry, so ostensibly they have made this decision with full knowledge (assuming no data mining fuck ups, which are disappointingly common at MS) of how many machines will or won't be able to upgrade.

Some options:

- they don't care about the machines that don't have compatible TPMs (lower value customers?)

- a ploy to drive hardware sales?

- something else?
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The reason there's no discussion about Samskruta is that all the scholars of संस्कृतम are in India and most of the University departments lack the cultural and linguistic nuances that are needed to learn संस्कृतम. Unless Indians come and share their research with the world, there won't be any discussion on it.

I also think this is so because the prevalent narrative is post colonial in nature and the (English) Internet is came out of Anglosphere. This is not a criticism of the prevalent order, it's just the way things have evolved naturally post WW2.
I think something along these lines is called “zero trust” and especially Google has been aggressively implementing it. But I could not find have any high quality articles on the concept.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3247848/what-is-zero-trust...
If you use the default merge messages, can't you tell which was the branch that got merged? The second parent is the branch that got merged and its name will appear in the commit message on the merge commit. This is probably something that you could infer most of the time.
> The so-called compiler implemented uses the dumbest possible implementation

I love remarkably blunt comments in code. The Quake III code that caused the uproar recently with Copilot probably being the most famous example.
>But they're nowhere near affording a house in Mountain View, hence the busses.

The buses are because they want to live in the city rather than essentially suburban Mountain View. It's not like SF is cheap housing.
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Whoa no way I was thinking of something similar, viral-only videos kind of like the Reddit-button https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)
Chuck Moore wouldn't consider ANS Forth a .. Forth. There is something to be said about the spirit of Forth as expressed through Moore and his ideas versus the sterilized, industrial or more elaborate offshoots. For us loyal Moore acolytes, things like 8th and even Factor are abominations.
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Curable is a bit of a stretch. More like "possibly not a death sentence, unlike other pancreatic cancers"
He had a favorite sushi place in Palo Alto. Maybe a pescaterian?
Distribution is a low margin business. I suspect the attitudes and practices that help you thrive in that environment would push people like Hank away.