skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
right, now that you mention it. They also ban research on polish collaboration with the Nazis in WWII.
Come on, if you occupy a country with millions of people, of course there will be some a-holes willing to collaborate, what's the big surprise there?
So you also believe that its too bad that Ghosn escaped trial and punishment? And that it's particularly nasty that the guys who engineered his escape ended up worse than the root criminal?

If so, we agree. But that there are no consequences of breaking another country's sovereignty the way Ghosn and those American goons believe they're entitled to, is ridiculous. Actually, it's American exceptionalism.
>> The power to veto anyone's speech is toxic.

This isn't a veto on speech. It is a veto on a particular means of speech, a particular avenue of expression. The fact that we now equate that with actual censorship shows how disconnected we are from true oppression. Being blocked from twitter is an inconvenience, a non-event. Real censorship comes from government, covers ideas rather than means, and normally ends with people in jail/dead. A loss of one's tweet privileges pales in comparison.
Also, All big company shows server expense from foreign country and move profit earned from India to abroad. This way some part of the profit stays in india.
Octopi are quite intelligent, perhaps he was acting out from boredom or frustration.
Haha this is totally just social anxiety. Both ends actually. The belief that the girl next to you on the train is thinking you’re cute and ignoring her and the belief that she’s gonna react like that.

A real version of that comic would probably have her thought bubble be like “I hope the meeting at five doesn’t run over. I’ve got to go pick up that camera lens from Best Buy. And what’s traffic going to be like. Should I just get it shipped? Hmm, I wonder if it’ll make it here before the weekend. But I want an excuse to get out of the meeting. Is that too much? Maybe.” or something like that. You know, the same stuff you’re thinking.

I have stranger-interactions all the time and most people are actually fairly eager for them. In fact, about the most you’ll ever see is lack of interest, which occasionally happens but will manifest as them being minimally civil.

Most people don’t want discomfort anywhere in their vicinity so they won’t confront you. Like they will barely confront you if you cause them harm, they _definitely_ won’t confront you if you’re neutral.
See also the SPLC labeling people like Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali "anti-Muslim extremists."
These SV companies amassed a level of power over the public square that nobody saw coming. Especially during a time of lockdowns the only speech that American citizens had with their other citizens was via 3 platforms, all of which were stiffling free speech, even to the point of banning some CSPAN coverage of a politician that represents them.
All we need is rules about what content can be removed for what reasons, and Twitter can just follow those rules itself, with the potential for audits. That's how we handle every regulatory requirement for companies. Even taxes basically work that way.

Censorship is the moderation of content that may be disturbing or cause painful thoughts or feelings. So a person leaking state secrets on Twitter, and the government asking Twitter to take the tweet down, is not censorship: it's protecting national security, or law enforcement. They're drastically different things being taken down for very different reasons.

You don't need an independent body to handle either type of request because we already have mechanisms for a company to handle both. What people are getting worked up over now is the potential for governments to abuse their legal right to remove illegal content, in order to censor. Since it's the govt doing it, the govt is not going to create an agency just to wave a big flag when it is doing something bad. That would be like creating a "National Agency Of We Don't Trust The Government".
_Is_ that case egregious by American standards?

The 3 years might be (though I'm not convinced for some jurisdictions), but the overall shape of the case is, I think, depressingly common in the US...
The planned Starlink constellation is actually quite a bit bigger, but even if there's 20k satellites whizzing around it's not a huge problem.

I think it's sometimes hard to reason about the vastness of space, but imagine if the planet Earth had exactly 20,000 cars on it's surface. Even if you crossed the street without looking, your odds of getting hit by a car would be incredibly low. And ofc in reality low earth orbit is bigger than the surface of the earth AND we know where every obstacle is located. If humanity ever gets to the point where we decide it's too crowded, most of these constellations are low enough that they'd naturally deorbit in less than a decade.
I was built to work a lottle bit everyday as part of a loving tribe, with a wide variety of skills and a direct experience of the fruits of my labor. Get me that and work becomes a blessing.
Yeah I mean, this is the claim / supposition: this isn't new, it's just not hidden anymore.

But I think it's worth questioning whether the supposition is true or not, and not in the sense of "can I think of any examples of a dysfunctional family being exposed now that would not have been back then?" because when you're talking about a large population you can find examples of pretty much anything (including that a lot of dysfunction that would not have been tolerated in the past is now flying under the radar).

Rather the right question (according to me) is: what are the broad trends of what is actually happening to hundreds of millions of people and what are some of the factors driving the trends?
Although this potential scenario is a long way off for the insurance market, it's something that might worry existing owners of black boxes who have already experienced issues with their devices' accuracy in the past.
There's nothing about SMTP that dictates response times or in any way makes it much slower than HTTP. A non-pipelining clients will require a few more network roundtrips if it connects and disconnects for every message, that's all.

> Any push notification like system is going to be just as error prone.

E-mail servers are built with retry logic and queuing logic already. The point is if you need queuing anyway, it offers a tried and tested mechanism with a multi-decade history and a vast number of interoperable software options. While there is now a relatively decent number of queuing middleware options, none of them have as many server and client options as SMTP.

SMTP isn't the best choice for everything, but it works (I've used it that way), it's reliable, and it scales with relative ease.

> And what happens when the send fails?

It gets retried. Retries are built in to mail servers. That's part of the point.

> And what about multiple message handlers?

What about it? Most SMTP servers provides mechanism for plugging in message delivery agents rather than delivering to a mailbox, or you let it deliver to a mailbox and pick it up from there. Or you plug in whatever routing mechanism you want to distribute the messages further. The sheer amount of ready-built options here is massive.

> Did someone write the code to check the inbox for them and handle them? When a send fails multiple times, is that logged and is there a system for clients to check that log?

Pretty much every e-mail server ever written provides a mechanism for handling persistent failures, and many of them offers heavily configurable ways of doing it. But yes, you'd need to decide on what to do about persistent failures. But you need to do that whatever queuing system you use.

> Message transfer isnt the hard problem in this domain.

The point of the article is exactly that reliable message transfer is the hard problem in this domain.
To be clear, it's not that I think people are dying en masse from vaccines and being covered up. What I'm mainly concerned about are permanent side effects and long term dangers.

Now, regarding long term side effects, there are a lot of "alternative news" sources, and random internet anecdotes, which claim relatively common heart problems following vaccination, and some stories of healthy people dying a few days later, though these deaths can't be explicitly linked to a vaccine necessarily. These sources are not more trustworthy than the mainstream media, but if the 2020 election has shown anything, it's that the media is willing to die on the hill for their narrative. These alternative sources are the same sort that were correct about Russiagate and other such media nonsense. So I can trust neither side, and there is at least some fringe evidence that the vaccines are worse than we know.

About long term effects appearing, I can't know if this is possible, and I can't trust anyone who says they do know, since it has been so politicized. There are actually medical doctors who say it could be dangerous in this way, so again, I can't know whether they're crackpots or if a large number aren't just fearful for their jobs and such. If you were a researcher right now and you had some evidence to believe this vaccine could be dangerous long after the injection, I find it hard to believe you could get your message out to any credible mouthpieces at this point.

If, in a couple of years, everything is still fine, then I may relent and get the jab. But right now there is just no way to trust it without trusting institutions which have proven themselves liars.
In thinking on it a bit, you could call Twitter a “printing press” of sorts. They have no stake in the content game, per se, but are the means of transmission.

The precedent here is that printing presses also held a lot of power in their time to print, which is why the newspapers themselves owned their own printing presses: so they couldn’t silenced by a third party.

I don’t think you can expect to use someone else’s means of transmission freely and expect free reign of usage.

That just means we ought to explore ways to decentralize distribution systems like Twitter.
It would not be possible to do this in electron.

To have the same great native feeling UI you’d need to use AppKit - not HTML.

Don’t get me started at the usual shortcuts and general platform behavior most electron apps get wrong.
That was their decision, and it's absolutely different than the government demanding that content is removed. The First Amendment applies to the government demands and not Twitter operating as a private entity.
In my particular case, the rift is due to Rupert Murdoch's media outlets destroying my parents' logical reasoning ability coupled with a particular kind of boomer narcissism.

For example, when I was young, my mom stayed home and raised me, fed me health foods, and gave me a head start on education. She was very loving and did a great job, really. These days, she screams at me and says she hopes Trump cancels my research funding because science is all a lie anyway.

She didn't come up with that idea on her own. I think the detrimental effect of corporate and social media polarization cannot be underestimated. It is literally breaking up families.
I saw they just arrested a man for saying racist things online after the Italy v England game. That's totally bonkers to me. We all agree racism is wrong but should speech backed by no actions be criminalized? I personally don't think so. Just ban the person from the platform and have private individuals handle it. The government has no place policing speech, it's a slippery slope to saying anything falls under x. I remember people complaining the governments were sweeping everything into the category of "terrorism" in order to stifle speech...that has disappeared. People seemed less inclined to support free speech now. Something I don't understand.
Was this article written by a Samsung salesperson?

Local dimming LCDs has existed for many years and will never get close to self emissive technologies like OLED.
If you could demonstrate with evidence the intent and factual occurrence of a harm, it wouldn't be gaslighting, it would just be factual lying. No one has ever confused those two things. People use the term gaslighting primarily in contexts where the truth is a matter of perspective and 'objectivity' is irresolvable but the claimant has subjective confidence the alleged did indeed exact the harm.

It isn't surprising older folk have a hard time treating with a grey notion like that, but that's just another sign of the seachange. See Judge Joe Brown's take on Bill Cosby's release versus that of mainstream Black media.
YouTuber Fixes Tesla for $700 After $16,000 Repair Quote from Company
Have you bought anything with Bitcoin in the past couple of years despite the high transaction fees? What did you buy?
It’s vital to address ergonomic issues as soon as possible. Try a variety of keyboard and mouse positions, types, elevations to find something that works. There are general recommendations online but they don’t work for everyone.
And to think that Twitter is an arms length away from the government when it - along with every other Big Tech - helped the NSA illegally spy on literally hundreds of millions of Americans.

Twitter is going to do what the people in the government want it to do.
Can anyone comment on how to do it without race conditions? I described the problem here: https://github.com/RailsEventStore/rails_event_store/issues/...
Yes, the government can't delegate it's dirty work to private companies. The SC has been very clear on that.
And if a person was prevented from printing an article in a newspaper, wouldn't that just be a veto on a particular means of speech?

Our government isn't supposed to do this stuff. It's evil even if the initial intentions aren't.
gRPC and gRPC Web on Google Cloud Run (Serverless)
Huh? This is exactly about government telling Twitter to silence journalists.
Probably not. Even 500,000 sattelites would still leave more than enough space between them for whatever you want. The risk would be if many of them blew up or something, creating billions of tiny pieces of debris. In that scenario, we might just wait 5 years and then most of the debris will have burned up in the atmosphere.

SpaceX satellites are around 550km attitude. If someone puts satellites higher than that, collision debris will last longer, the satellites' fuel will last longer so the satellites won't have to be replaced as often, but network latencies will be higher. Seems like 500-600km is the optimal zone for the primary constellations of internet satellites.

Video showing decay of debris vs. its altitude. The "X" shape is because each debris is plotted twice, once at it's perigee and again at its apogee (describing the ellipse of the orbit as they generally are not perfectly circular)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQT5aMa_7iI

Higher altitude satellites would be a bigger concern but these aren't a big deal.
> It might work in one country, but the result will only be this one country falling behind and becoming an irrelevant province of the earth.

I really doubt that, but that's one of the boogeymen that scares us away from questioning a lot of things.

It probably comes from false assumptions like "'we're' smart" or the "market makes the ideal decision", so all other paths except the one taken were inferior, perhaps fatally so.
True, but if it's not hosted under your own control it basically is fully out of your control. Doesn't the US gov / the 3 letter agencies basically have access to everything hosted within the US?

Sure there are other ways, but India seems to like to go for the most radical solutions at times
Using zeitgeist terms like "gaslight" and "toxic" immediately makes me take someone less seriously. They are words for social media virtue signaling and nothing more.
Sure, I got that. I just don't see how it obviously follows that the parent's assumed ignorance about the modern economy would automatically lead to toxic behavior. I think that step needs some spelling out.
The easiest way to prevent war is to make it uneconomical -- like it was in the past. War should bankrupt a country. Years long fighting like we saw in the 20th century is a product of loose monetary policy.

When a country can print itself out of debt (or more accurately, kick the can down the road for the next generation), war is inevitable. If we remove the ability to do this, a prolonged war becomes far less likely.
That’s his point, I believe. The problem isn’t decentralization, the problem is how do you undermine network effects.
What employment laws? Employers can lower your slary or fire you at any time here. The governing principle is "at will."
it’s a race to the bottom, no one thinks about the door usability so the cheap glass one wins (they might even eschew a push plate because of potential fingerprints on the glass) - when you’re building cookie cutter offices no one cares about how the door works. The primary concerns are appearance and cost.
Gun resembling Lego toy sparks backlash in US
You paint with a very broad brush.
I hope the right to repair will become standard across the world.
Interestingly enough this site is blocked on the university I am at network "Threat detected: Integration." No idea why.
My assumption was modern ICE's also had software controllers. You could go with a fully hardware controlled electric motor (electric motors significantly pre-date computers!), but that of course would come with the same kind of trade-offs as fully hardware controlled ICE's (a couple I can think of off the top of my head are inability to change and inconsistent or degrading behavior over time).
> If your car’s audio system doesn’t have a simple knob you can grab and twist, well, that just sucks.

And is an actual potentiometer with stops at min/max volume, not some kind of digital encoder wheel that debounces my input away when I spin it down fast because I want it quiet right now and both my hands somewhere else.
So .. are we back to demanding that twitter delete nothing, ever, no matter how pornographic, libellous, or threatening? Or even just spam?
>Trump was a bigger threat to journalism while he was in office than any content moderation rules Twitter could ever enforce.

Besides idle threats to "open up the libel laws" and temporarily blocking random journos from white house events, I don't see how this could possibly be true.

Two things can be bad at once. In measurable terms I'd say opaque, coordinated social media bans are the greater and more permanent of the evils here. We can't deflect to Trump forever.
It's incredible how far the web has come. I remember the first time I saw a browser GameBoy emulator and I was amazed. Maybe I should port my GB emulator to WASM...
Yeah, what if I learned to drive late in my life and am simply not confident enough? Or maybe I take speed limits seriously?
With current pace, and considering two major plants opening( Texas,Berlin), and one new line(Shanghai) , tesla will be at 800k cars this year, 1.1-1.5m next year. So by 2023 tesla could approach GM size of 2019. Considering this two companies compete on the same market, and tesla plans to enter affordable segment in 2023 with model 2... it's a big question where GM will be in 2023-2024
There are no “architect” roles at google. Most people outside anti-abuse roles have no access to user data, and even the abuse people use audited frontend tools that formalize the policy that the viewer must reference the ticket they are working on and the limited data they need to see.

People with direct access to production data streams mostly see encrypted data. There’s a big, annoying technical scheme in place to make sure private or sensitive data is elided whenever a message is printed in plain text to a log. It stretches from the protocol compiler all the way down to C++ stream operators.

I’m not saying nobody ever sees user data. Sometimes you need to find out why an email is crashing the mailer. But those accesses are limited in scope, auditable, and available to relatively few people.

In my opinion it isn’t really the Facebooks and Googles of the world you need to worry about, it’s the companies with massive collections of user data and without the technical chops to protect it. Like Dropbox.
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Given the rapid development and maturity of virtualization, container, sandboxing, and emulation technology: to me it seems rather silly that it's not yet trivial to run macos and windows apps (and anything else one would want) transparently, side by side on the same machine. I'm not normally a microsoft fan, but their direction with WSL2/WSLg/WSA feels very interesting...
The full book is worth reading if and only if you want to have an entire theory of reinforcement psychology in your head. Else, the first four chapters and the last few are good enough.

What it teaches you is that, behavior is situational, not innate. As it is situational you ought to enumerate and decompose your current behavior into its antecedents, its content, and its consequences; describing your behavior's whole context.

From there, you ought to apply tactics onto these ABCs to increase or decrease your target behavior accordingly. You should track your progress for relapse, and then have plans to adjust your behavior if and when relapse occurs. The book describes these tactics and gives hints on how to achieve all of the above.

It is an excellent book. If BJ Fogg's "Tiny Habits" felt like they lacked substance, then pick up "Self-Directed Behavior".
Is it generally easy for people to get permission from their day job to code on the side, without assigning all rights to the employer?
A few years back there was a movement on Facebook with groups called "Survivors of Narcissistic Parents" and similar that encouraged people to cut off their parents. It seemed wildly popular and had tons of engagement. People would diagnose their parents with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, discuss how every problem in their lives could be traced to their parents, and that was that.

I've also saw more than one person disown their parents after being sucked in to the anticircumcision movement - men who had until that moment seemingly normal lives but were then convinced their sex lives would never reach their potential because of a decision their parents had made.
And, reading more at StackOverflow, from where Virtue3's quotes are?, This: https://serverfault.com/questions/523804/is-starttls-less-sa...

I find:

> If the client is configured to require TLS, the two approaches are more-or-less equally safe. But there are some subtleties about how STARTTLS must be used to make it safe, and it's a bit harder for the STARTTLS implementation to get those details right.

I previously thought that was the default, good to know it isn't / might not be

Thanks everyone :-)
It's quite simple, really. The "communists" won the culture war. I don't mean this flippantly.

Deconstruction of the nuclear family and organized religion are and always have been core to the process.

> On January 10, 1963, at the request of constituent Patricia Nordman, Herlong read into the Congressional Record a list of 45 goals of communism from the book The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen.[5]

[5] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1963-pt22/pdf/...

p35

> 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity, as "normal, natural, healthy."

> 27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch.

> 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

Take a look at the rest of the list and tell me this isn't the same ideological warzone we see today with the current fringe right and progressive orthodoxies.

Edit: added scare quotes to "communists"