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How can you support free speech but prevent a company from exerting that speech?

YouTube banning antivax content is speech.

You want the government to start mandating that a company can't take a stance on important issues of healthcare? Churches spend all day every day taking stances on abortion. You want to the government to tell them they can't take a side?
I wonder if this could be solved with having several YouTube's. The storage can be central but maybe there can be several legal and sanctioned ways to access the videos. We already have YouTube kids. Why not also open up the market to license YouTube storage and allow other companies to make clients. It's a half baked idea but I think it can work. Right now there is no difference between premium and non premium YouTube apart from lack of ads. Everything else like background playback is an artificial barrier introduced by yt which they charge to remove. There is no creativity in this space because nobody can innovate apart from youtube. And honestly YouTube is shit at innovating.
As far as I can tell, the endgame is the following:

1. Goad professors into retaliating.

2. File lawsuits alleging said retaliation.

3. Win the lawsuits.

4a. Add ammunition to the culture war where conservatives feel under threat by "elites" and reject higher education.

4b. Force universities to exercise greater administrative control over what material is taught and funded, eliminating topics that are vaguely controversial to conservatives.
The CDC of the past is not the CDC of today. It never is the same, people come and go. The make up of the political structure has overwhelmed the program:

1. CDC director overrules recommendation of board (political reasoning alone).

2. Dr. Faucci admits he lied about the amount of people needed to be vaccinated.

3. Dr. Faucci admits they lied about the need for masks. Which if we look at the data it is messy and shows only a 20% efficacy. If we look at recommendations prior to this outbreak, the documents say not to bother with masks. Do not tell me it was for the greater good to lie, they lied. Which people were told to shut up and listen when we all questioned the lie.

4. The head of the CDC is having an emotional break down on TV when all metrics are trending good (1Q). Why was she having a break down when the public data shows something else. Could it be she had knowledge of something?

The point is, agencies change, they adapt to the political masters. We have these three examples plus my fourth curiosity that point to the government agencies no longer being trustworthy in their guidance.
What that's still almost all professors , this is some vaguely conspiratorial idea to discredit scientists
The science community as a whole needs to do the work of all three. The work of an individual scientist may be able to focus on just the one, and their lives are easier if they work in a context that gives them that specificity of responsibility.

But eventually, someone needs to do the work to convince people "science is trustworthy." And for a variety of reasons (both objective and social), scientists should be on the front lines of that work.

The question of "this is important" is tricky because it must involve a two-way discussion with the audience. But there are cases where a scientist must be making that case, e.g. in order to procure funding.
Nuclear is a good example of how facts alone don’t win debates or make public policy.
It’s not exactly “surprising” but the New York City stereotype of a Christian anti-abortion voter is a rural white guy in Alabama but the statistical reality is that it’s a rural black guy in Alabama.
Also remember despite Kosovo being a US puppet state, it was a top 10 source of sending fighters to ISIS and other terrorist groups
It's way easier when you bake it into the design of the language from the start, and make it part of the conventions of the ecosystem.

But yeah, "seems like a reasonable way forward" is a far cry from "has got past it"!

I agree it seems like a reasonable way forward, but whether it will actually lead to widepread improvements in actually-existing ruby-as-practiced, and when/how much effort it will take to get there, is I think still uncertain. It may seem reasonable way forward, but it's ultimate practical success is far from certain.

(If this were 20 years ago, and we were designing the ruby language before it got widespread use -- it would be a lot easier, and even more reasonable! matz has said threads are one of the things he regrets most in ruby)

Same for python. It does seem Python is exploring a very similar path, as mentioned in the OP, so apparently some pythonists agree it seems like a reasonable way forward! I will be very interested to compare/contrast the ruby and python approaches, see what benefits/challenges small differences in implementation/semantics might create, or differences in the existing languages/community practices, especially with regard to making actual adoption in the already-existing ruby/python ecosystems/communities more likely/feasible.
One of my bigger wishes is that any software paid for with tax money needs to be FOSS. Of course you can't do the switch easily for with all the legacy systems running everywhere, but there must be some path from paying SAP and Microsoft Gigabucks in perpetuity to building an ecosystem of free software that everybody can use.
I'm yet another person who dislikes QR code menus. Most of the time it doesn't work and when you're travelling with iffy data or battery then it's even worse.
Evolution as Tinkering (2008)
I think people don't spend enough time thinking how many of the problems they have are caused by the fact that programming languages are just text that need to be parsed by every single tool they use. If languages were (eg) AST-based, this would be a fairly trivial problem.
Imagine a straw man argument that has nothing to do with the current situation.

Better yet, imagine if the government told you that you must post a sign in your front yard that says “vaccines are good” or “vaccines are bad”. That’s a much more relevant analogy here.

Your right to not be prosecuted by the government for what you say is protected by the first amendment. YouTube’s right is similarly protected: they can say or not say what they want on their website without criminal consequences. So which is it, do you want the government to curtail YT’s free speech or not?
Rereading this right this very moment and that part is totally awesome. Also, all the money calculations in that book showing how hard it is to be a poor student.

But I am grinding my teeth because there is no book 3! When! If ever? Patrick, come on, man, you did such a good job on these two, finish it!
Though I agree that old codebases are a particular challenge, picking on word confusion is unnecessary. Even if minutiae is important in a legacy codebase. Dyslexia is a real thing. So are linters thankfully.
The police in my country wouldn't even bother to check, they have rapists and drug dealers to deal with.
We should probably stop trusting them with the video cultural memory of the Internet.
Implicit in the "care for you later" agreement is "by underpaying you now."

Whatever a company is setting aside for you later - or just promising you will be there later - could instead just be paid to you now. You might think of it as "AND," but it's really always inherently "OR."

And if a company is promising to continue paying everybody for a long time after they stop working for the company, the company can only do that by underpaying everyone by a lot all the rest of the time. Why complicate things that way. Instead of underpaying everyone and having the company decide everything, how about just pay us a lot more NOW and we can handle the rest for ourselves. Saving, investing, insurance, and govt programs (where available) can all help out with this.
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“Why are these other countries posting Christian content! That’s American!”
Journalists aren't sources...
While none of the widespread variants show increased mortality compared to the original strain, the Delta variant is significantly more infectious than the original strain meaning that even if you're still taking the same precautions you were before vaccines were available you're much more likely to get it today than you were then. And it's not just about whether you live or die, look up people who have "long COVID" who are still suffering significant disability for months after they've "recovered". Vaccination doesn't only prevent you from dying, it has also been shown to significantly reduce the length and severity of the infection if you do get it.
I wonder if we would be better served with a NPR-like publicly funded platform for video hosting that puts a lot more resources into content moderation. The private platforms get away with the bare minimum by throwing black box AI at the problem which leads to problems like the anti-vax censorship chilling effects etc. There should be an easily reached human in the loop with transparent decisions, and levels of appeal which is much more expensive. Kinda like the court system with the jury-of-your-peers litmus test.
I've long been impressed by https://simplesamlphp.org/ which is led by UNINETT, a state-owned company responsible for Norway's National Research and Education Network.

It's a serious competitor to Shibboleth in the SAML space.
why not set the terms for anti-vax or “vaccine hesitant” behavior where people are deprioritized in terms of getting medical treatment for diseases they refuse to get vaccinated for?

Not rejected of course but if you deny Covid-19 vaccine you are behind in line after people who did get it.

“Reap what you sow”.
> So then is the recursive descent parser mentioned language-independent or language-dependent?

The parser is language-independent, but the tokenizer used by the parser looks up the tokens of syntax highlighting to decide if a bracket character is an opening/closing bracket or just text.
Okay so you have your wish, there are 10 major video sites in the US who all have 5-20% market share. The forces that push one service moderate content will push the others.

Like there are a lot of social networks, have you noticed that every single one is monitoring for COVID related content and adding a banner?

tldr: competition can't solve political issues because there's a monopoly on government
I knew about filecoin and Arweave but I didn't know about Chia.
> I wonder what's cooking?

Yellow cake.
It looks like evaporative cooling is not the only thing Intel does. Recharging the aquifer at the Phoenix site is another: https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/www3/region9/waterinfr...

Depending upon how they do this and how much they are adding back into the aquifer, that can have a positive impact on the local ecology.

According to those slides, those were not the only strategies Intel used at the Phoenix site. It also added that there are already many water reductions strategies in use (which I agree with), so it doesn’t require groundbreaking research to develop.
how does this compare to simply using zerotier or tailscale?
> moderate voices

Antivaxxers are without exception folks that are harming themselves and the people around them by holding a position that is in every case not well reasoned and in a few cases founded on actual ill thinking (as in mentally ill). Just like actual nazis need to not have a platform, and preventing them from having one hasn't had a stifling effect on society. These people are perpetrating evil with intent, that makes them qualitatively separate from everyone else.
"X is good for BitCoin" for any value of X, and not(X).

Some people are beyond saving- there is nothing that you can say or do to get them to accept that their beliefs are wrong. So you're better off expending efforts on the option that disrupts the radicalization pipeline.
> Because resources are finite.

Okay, then why are hospital resources more finite than non-hospital resources that can scale?

> It's irresponsible to carry that much more capacity when you'll only need it once a century

But you need it for at least 2-3% of the century it seems, so the current model of "please don't overload our beds for 2-3 years" doesn't seem very sustainable either. It's almost like you want Amazon-style "elastic" resources that only kick in when you need them.

> Same deal with COVID. COVID is filling ICUs at a scale that is wasteful to keep on hand during normal operations.

So don't keep them on hand. Figure out a way to mobilize the resources when you need them.

> What does it take to make a site appropriate for an ICU ward?

For one thing, maybe making "a site appropriate for an ICU ward" is too stringent a requirement in times of crisis and overloading?

My solution: Setup circus tents in the parking lot reserved for unvaccinated covid patients where they can sleep on army cots with fewer ICU resources and where they die at higher rates than the normal ICU.

Bam, problem solved. Now the normal ICU is at normal capacity again and unvaccinated covid patients can still receive some limited form of care. If they die at higher rates, oh well, that's a consequence of not getting vaccinated and the direct result of their own choices. And it's better than letting vaccinated heart attack patients die because their unvaccinated comrades took up all the beds and it's also better than taking away everyone's freedom and forcing the vaccination upon everyone. Because now everyone is happy. The unvaccinated still have their freedom, the vaccinated still have their ICU beds.

I'm sure people more familiar with the problem domain could come up with something much better than circus tents in a parking lot. My point was that everyone seems to have accepted that hospitals are inflexible and that the only way to solve the problem is to flatten the curve indefinitely and I don't accept that. Sure, flatten the curve initially, but only until you figure out a better long term solution to dealing with loading spikes.
This is the same thing people said about vaccine mandates ("mandating vaccinations will only make people dig in!"), but we've had concrete evidence of the exact opposite behavior just this week: after weeks of grumbling, thousands of unvaccinated healthcare workers went and got their shots ahead of NYC's mandate[1].

Edit: because I realize this is an apples-to-oranges comparison, here's an appropriate one: we don't allow cigarette companies to advertise, since smoking cigarettes is manifestly unhealthy. There's been an extraordinary amount of reporting on the undisclosed financial relationships between prominent anti-vaxxers and snake-oil companies; it's not clear to me why forbidding this kind of manifestly dangerous profiteering on a global pandemic actually represents a risk to free expression.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/nyregion/vaccine-health-c...
Blue Origin ‘gambled’ with its Moon lander pricing, NASA says in legal documents
It's been ages since I've used Windows - does it not still force reboots for updates after that much time?
Thanks for this! Just finished listening to the audiobook and was itching for an update by Carreyrou. There's another podcast, The Drop Out: Elizabeth Holmes on Trial that is also covering the trial.
A general strike only works if you have enough people on board. What makes you think there is? It's easy to think a socialist revolution is right around the corner in certain circles of the internet, but I think actual support is far lower. see: amazon unionization vote.
> Unfortunately Central Washington is part of a state that is known for erratic, wild, and unpredictable whims when it comes to any company whose name isn't "Boeing"

Microsoft, Amazon, Nintendo, etc., have a strong WA presence and what has WA done to them that is 'unpredictable'? WA has no state income tax and is very billionaire and business friendly. You are perhaps thinking of Seattle politics, but Seattle!=WA. WA votes very blue during elections but it's for the pro-wealthy billionaire-friendly blues. WA doesn't elect the AOC squad type blues.
It is significantly simpler to build a local road on the land owned by people who want that road, than it is to eminent domain your way across the country, fighting hostile property owners you’re confiscating, NIMBYists, environmental activists etc.
> If you believe vaccines have no potential negative effect beyond 1 week, you'll have to give a serious thought as to why you believe Covid can have long term effects

...because they are different? A localized, single dose mRNA vaccine that transiently produces spike protein will have a completely different effect than systemic infection with a virus.
In the context of politicians in the USA they will not perceive its a problem until it stop working.

Given how strong gerrymandering is there's no benefit to reaching out to the other side, just hold the line while scoring political points.
I don't remember any, sorry… There were lots of submissions here on Show HN recently, many good examples among them.
I'm not sure people can't grasp it. But it certainly can't be taken for granted.

Perhaps we need to continuously keep making versions of this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4 ("Don't be a sucker" 1945)
It's not an automatic back-button press for me (I mean, hell, most sites do that these days), but I do find pages that yell at me to BUY IT! first thing to be really gross. Like having a salesman run up to me on the street, pen and contract in hand, yelling BUY BUY BUY! Like, WTF. I don't know you, and I don't even know what you're selling yet, but you're shoving a contract in my face already? "Crass" is too mild a term.

The only time it's convenient to have those buttons front and center, and the only time I click them very soon after first visiting a site, is when I already know what the service is and I'm at least 90% sure I'm buying it before I even load the site (tenth visit, already used the service at a previous company, buying a product/account for a family member, that kind of thing)
> Free speech used to be more of an ubiquitous social courtesy like that, yes.

Oh, come on. Social consequences have been part of history since the start of the US, and long before that elsewhere too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brown_(loyalist)

> On 2 August 1775 a crowd of Sons of Liberty confronted him at his house. Brown requested the liberty to hold his own opinions, saying that he could "never enter into an Engagement to take up arms against the Country which gave him being", and finally met their demands with pistol and sword. Taken prisoner with a fractured skull, he was tied to a tree where he was roasted by fire, scalped, tarred, and feathered. This mistreatment resulted in the loss of two toes and lifelong headaches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Titus

> Despite Robert's importance in Rehoboth community, he began to have problems with his fellow townsmen. On June 6, 1654, he was told to move his family out of the Plymouth Colony for allowing Abner Ordway and family, "persons of evil fame", to live in his home. The practice of banishing a family from the colony was known as a "Warning Out Notice."

Black people got lynched for using their right to free speech for much of this country's history. People who piss off their communities have been banished or exiled or worse for millennia. Our close cousins in the animal kingdom do the same thing; if you're a dick, you're either the new leader or you're out of the group.
"Settling Politics" amounts to everyone agreeing about what to do on every matter all the time. Otherwise politics just isn't going to be settled.

But it's a misconception to think that the goal of politics is to "be settled". The goal of politics is to make decisions on how to rule the land right now, they don't get to wait 15 years and then try again (yes, some do, but that's a different problem).

there is a secret debate about who is going to have to wear the costs.

It's very sad that this has become a "secret" debate, because this is the heart of politics. I haven't decided if I blame politicians or the sensationalist media more for this, but these debates should not be secret. This is not just a problem in the US, in Europe I see the same: we are stuck with career politicians that are too chicken to either state their real beliefs in public, or to act on those beliefs in the senate.
I'm glad someone pointed this out. What is it with this obsession to be 1000x productive all the time? I will not get paid more for it, will I?
And how is this going to make me more productive anyway? By removing "distractions"? I doubt anything can make me solve problems twice as fast as I already do, let alone 10x. This is ridiculous.
You might have it backwards about neck movement.

Sitting at a desk looking at a monitor in one position sounds terrible for your neck.

With VR you don't have physical (and cost) limitations of having screens above and below you, they could be all around you. You could even program the screen(s) to slowly rotate around you to induce motion so your neck/body isn't in the same place all day.
A compelling theory! If only it were so simple.

In practice it doesn't actually work out that way. 1/3 of people who get covid have no antibodies at all, whereas everyone (who is not immunocompromised) who gets the vaccine develops antibodies.

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/574284-natural-covid-...

The immune system is very complicated.
New Zealand has a Censorship Office and an official called the Chief Censor. The government has the power to declare that certain communications are illegal and prosecute people for making those communications. They recently, famously did this with footage from the Christchurch shootings as well as the shooter's manifesto.

Yet New Zealand consistently tops Cato Institute's freedom index.

Maybe, just maybe, an absolutist reading of free speech that favors spreading of hate and misinformation, as we have in the USA ever since Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969[0] is not a necessary condition for freedom. Maybe restricting speech actually has a public benefit and can increase the freedom and well-being of individuals with no hateful or dishonest intent.

[0] Note that the plaintiff was a KKK member, so yes, the current bedrock court ruling for free speech in the USA was crafted specifically to protect hate speech.
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