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Why not give a flat earther a huge prime time platform? I mean that in of itself proves nothing.

There have been many attempts and even in my own circles and in the end the it has nothing to do with the facts and all about fear and badly calculating risk.

I can understand the mentality if you're hesitant of the vaccines being new and want to wait, but just understand that the current data shows you're taking a higher risk by not taking it. Your choice in the end, though.

People who are full anti-vax are a different thing altogether.
Well I reject your premise, but on a more fundamental level I simply do not believe (on the basis of overwhelming evidence) that the gargantuan tech monopolies and the people pulling their strings care at all about the public health, disease prevention, or human life, so I am left looking for other motives.

During the debate over Covid vaccines a common refrain has been "any safety issues have always shown up within a few months of administration." This is straight up misinformation: the Pandemix vaccine is a very high profile counterexample where symptoms first appeared about a year after the first shots were given, and it took another year after that for authorities to acknowledge the link. I only know about this because I occasionally peruse sources which would probably be labeled as "anti-vax," whereas the people repeating the false claim ad nauseam have often picked it up from sources which would be considered "authoritative," including public health authorities. But especially on this issue we have to pretend that there is one "side" which has a monopoly on accurate information.

I wonder how much longer YouTube will even allow you to point out that the manufacturers of the completely-safe-beyond-any-doubt-whatsoever Covid vaccines have been blanket exempted from liability for any injuries caused by their products.
IEEE journals, and especially their standards, do actually provide a value added service that government funding doesn’t cover and they obviously run as part of a non profit so it seems very morally ambiguous. I imagine likewise for ACM.
Thank you for presenting the nuance.

It’s easy to condemn the quacks and extremely ill informed, but all sorts of opinions get swept away. Skeptics, those who want to study the details, exceptions, oddities, etc., get swept up by the system thus stifling legitimate debate and learning of a critical topic.
It's worse I think than is generally realised. Back about 8 years ago I looked into getting some kind of university level library access for independent research - was quite happy to pay a fairly significant amount. I tracked down one of the London Universities who offered this if you paid to join their library (it was a couple of hundred pounds then), turned up in person to do so, and was politely told this had just been shut down due to problems with the publishers. Looking back, because that had been the last of several options that had been recently shutdown, I have to think this was deliberate policy by the publishers.

Write to the author as a last alternative, they're usually more than happy to send you a copy, I've had a couple of instances where a paper copy of the requested work turned up in the mail.
So this person violated a few unwritten laws of job switching, but you have to have some compassion for her - she was in a terrible job and was looking for a way out. You'd make mistakes too.
Agreed. Of all the messiness in iOS's settings app, it's honestly pretty easy to find the setting to turn this off (iCloud > Find My > Find My network). The Twitter thread almost reads like someone who's trying to not understand what's happening.

Not to mention the fact that there's a reminder of this setting every time you turn your phone off, which can be tapped to disable this behavior.
Well then we can all furrow our brows and move on. If you simply find YT distasteful, don’t use it.
The wackos don't actually have the power to take down moderates as parent discusses. Only youtube has that power.

Content moderation is not inherently good or bad, it simply is. A version of Youtube that cracked down on well known science would be legal but not "good".
It's persistent because RW media keeps pushing it as gospel.
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> My previous boss had a personal vendetta against me and made my time working for her really difficult. Eventually, I was moved out from under her to a different team within the same department. So when asked, I simply told the HR person that my previous boss and I didn’t have a good relationship, and that I could not rely on her for a reference.

IMO, I wouldn't consider this person "my previous boss" and just provide a reference from a previous employer.

I wonder how long they worked together? Was it a few weeks, months, or years?
> Ability to work with companies is no longer an option if you want any message through.

It never has been. Publishers refusing to publish speech isn’t a new phenomenon. Newspapers, radio and TV stations have been doing it since their inceptions.

What do you think an “editor” does?

> If you can't post on any social media you are as good as being completely censored.

That’s hardly true either. You can run your own websites, mailing lists, or just send stuff in the post. There are plenty of people that don’t use social media, I doubt they feel censored.
what are you talking about? worker thread pools are the most common way to take advantage multiple cores. Typically can see speedups (for highly parallel codes) of nX for n cores.
Dozens of books have been written documenting the absolute, unmitigated travesty of the Trump administration. 70 million people still voted for him, and a majority of those did so as a positive review of his performance!

I'm not sure what to do, but I know now that "mountains of evidence" does not stop alluring stupidity.
What's your position on the current third shot issue? Should we listen to the scientist panel that said no, or the government that said yes?

What is youtube's position? Will it delete all government communications because the scientists said on, or will it delete all scientific discussion because the government said yes?
Free speech on Youtube is like being in the audience of a sitcom, you can't just yell out swear words, it could cost the production company money...
"Reply to this post" things only exist because if lots of people reply, the algorithm thinks you're popular, and thus will show your posts more often without you having to pay.
Hey there I manager our Community at GreyNoise - those are the Organizations that the IP is originating from! Our "Actor" Classification gives better insight into /who/ is actually conducting the activity (i.e. https://www.greynoise.io/viz/ip/92.154.95.236)

You can look up IPs in GreyNoise to know if they are scanning the internet (if no results are returned, the answer is likely no or not at scale.)

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Making it a requirement for being hired is plain dumb. Even if the employee was doing a great job and getting along with everyone, the employer could be pissed that the employee wants to quit and deny that request…

Addition: It is similar to making it a requirement to own a university degree for a senior dev position. There are enough devs out there with many years of experience.
People don’t get fired for being pro Palestinian they get fired for being violently anti-Israel. Don’t conflate the two.
Yes, it's unfortunate. I had forgotten about it since I've had a GSuite locally for a while but I see them when someone else opens their app.

https://www.queryclick.com/app/uploads/2015/10/Gmail-ads-101...

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7019460?hl=en
"Can you name the problem, please?"

Sure thing. I guess you missed where I already said: google "mit vs gpl"
Thanks for giving it a try, and for the feedback.

Strongly agree. Something like this is on our todo list. Our thinking is an optionally-open, in-the-dock UI to manage settings and a floating non-dock search bar for quick access. Perhaps with a menu bar item to make it clear something is still running.

So the dock app could be closed when not in use, which is would probably be most of the time.
The problem is: who determines who the "wackos" are and what is and isn't "extreme BS"?

If it's defined by social consensus then during periods of groupthink and hysteria (common among humans) even the most reasonable people will be labeled wackos and shunned.
If you want moderation, you need human moderators.

The trouble with the tech giants is that their "free service paid by ads" business model completely collapses into red numbers if they start employing adequate numbers of people for that purpose.

So they resort to artificial intelligence, which is worse than natural stupidity in this regard.
What is wrong with this ? It may just be a roof top. The assumption that it must be a flying object is surprising.
The sovereign citizens aren’t elected.

> If it's simple to harass someone that way, then making it available to everyone will increase the need to fix a broken system where people can be arbitrarily harassed.

Making a broken system worse does increase the need to fix it, but it doesn’t mean it gets fixed, it just means we have a worse need.
Or the target of a malicious actor.
Misinformation is free, real research is expensive, even if funded by your tax dollars.
The scientific consensus was that there was no evidence that mask would work (or not work) for 2019-nCoV. There's plenty of evidence that it helps prevent transmission of other respiratory viruses.

So which hypothesis would have most likely been true at the time? Not to mention that Dr. Fauci himself had admitted that it was a noble lie (aka pure propaganda and falsehoods).
Or you're an activist attending a protest.
> As Netflix becomes a producer of award winning content, the studio and content creation needs are also pushing the envelope of technology advancements

This is a truly bizarre motivation. Should not the needs of the customer be the motivator for advancing technology? Also, Netflix has been winning awards for original content since 2013:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_...
> you expect turning off your device to turn it off.

When you turn your phone off there is a message that states:

iPhone Findable After Power Off >

Tapping that shows an alert with a description:

iPhone Remains Findable After Power Off

Find my helps you locate this iPhone when it is lost or stolen, even after power off

The location is visible in Find My on your other devices and to people in Family Sharing you share location with.

You can temporarily turn off Find My network and it will resume when this iPhone is turned on again

[OK] [Temporarily Turn Off Finding]

Seems very clear about setting expectations about exactly what your phone will be doing when you turn it "off".
It's all very simple, considering Youtube has had a feature to keep videos out of their search indexes since, I don't know, forever...? It's effectively a form of voluntary shadowbanning, used by people who just want to embed videos somewhere else or, y'know, simply keep them somewhat private. YT could just say "right, anything we object to, gets removed from the search index." Two-minutes job. If you want to be more proactive, stop them from embedding too, so they can't be reposted elsewhere. The videos are then effectively neutered and only the already-nutcase will see them, limiting the virality.
This article has me wondering if I’ve ever turned my phone off besides restarting it or the battery died. I’m sure I have but I bet it is very uncommon.

That being said, if it were off and lost, this feature would be amazing. Apple is very transparent about it and also allows you to disable it as far as I remember.

The OP has a follow up tweet that iOS 15 made their phone hot during charging. Kind of feels like they might just not be having a good time with their new iPhone or is trying a little too hard to capture some Apple outrage attention. There are better things in the ecosystem to complain about in my opinion but to each their own.
It seems you are right. However, they did just have elections and the left wing opposition that ran on a pro climate agenda won by quite large margin. That and the current reality of most sales already being EVs makes a 2025 cut off quite possible for ICE vehicle sales. I'd say that talk just got a bit more serious.
I don't have to imagine. I work with such people. You work with such people. Such people post regularly on HN. They're endemic to the tech industry. Ward Churchill calls such people "little Eichmanns". They just follow orders without giving any thought to the uses to which their work will be put. They only care about their careers; ethics are above their pay grade.
I'm not for Youtube taking the videos down, I just don't think a private company taking a video down from their site is censorship.
And my take is, if Youtube starts limiting content too much, it will end up losing viewership, which will migrate to competing sites/apps.
Society in general has been making chilling moves away from free speech, and this has been accelerated by the pandemic. I hope the pendulum will swing the other way, but it's also possible to cross a tipping point where we just lose our way.
Here is my open letter to people working for Google:

Dear googlers:
Quit. You’ll make plenty elsewhere; just stop ruining the Internet please.
Produce content for idiots who'll believe ads and click on them
This is actually an internal artificial kidney. There are other projects like you describe. https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney/device/faq has some helpful info about this.

This would basically replace dialysis if they are able to achieve the numbers they quote (GFR of 20-30). Occasionally having a minor surgery is likely much safer and more affordable than dialysis.
I will certainly disregard your suggestion.

It's proven that the spike protein accumulates in the ovaries after vaccine injection. As the FDA claims, there is no long term data. Anecdotally I've heard many pregnancies ended from the shot.

It's not FUD to be concerned about female fertility. We have no long term data and we know the spike protein accumulates in the ovaries from mRNA injections.
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Of course it will. Welcome to the new propaganda. Same as the old propaganda.

Free speech is the act of standing up for those who you disagree with simply because you believe they have the right to be heard. In today's world of "woke" content creators, everyone seems to miss this point. What started out as fairly clear cut issues such as racism and homophobia has now bled into grey areas around vaccines and gain of function research.

On the latter, should we not be concerned about this? We're in the middle of a global pandemic and we're not allowed to discuss whether GoF research is too risky? We're not allowed to discuss the nuances of what a "lab leak" may really entail? For example, I think the theory that a researcher collecting specimens from the wild accidentally infecting people in wuhan or themselves holds a lot of merit. Yet, it cannot be discussed.

We should be outraged. And, back on the topic of anti-vaxers. They kind of have a point. Why should they trust the government, the CDC, the WHO and the like? What have they done to prove they are trustworthy at this point? Shutting down open discussion around this topic will only make the situation worse, not better.
> One way or the other, Facebook now seems to be a pipeline for spreading propaganda:

Facebook's overt business model is to be a platform for advertising (not just via overt ads, but also through paid reach of what looks like organic content). “Advertising” is just another word for “propaganda”.

So, you've noticed that Facebook “now seems to be” exactly what Facebook overtly is.
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We need better ways to fund Open Source projects. We all benefit tremendously by them. I think, this is one way it can work. Companies pledge to donate $X USD amount per year per software engineer (SE) to a foundation (or whatever legal entity). Then each SE is able to choose which percentage of the money goes to which projects. Channeling the money to the projects that they themselves find more useful. It makes sense because companies benefit but it is the SEs that know what they are using most.
That inconvenience seems like it could be resolved with containerization, only at a smaller scale than the current 40-foot containers. Small standardized containers could be rapidly transferred between truck and train.
> In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook’s most popular pages for Christian and Black American content were being run by Eastern European troll farms.

It's also interesting that these are the groups that have been identified as the best targets for a propaganda campaign. (Edit: You would think this would be successful for a wide variety of groups across the political and social spectrum.)
What situation are you happy to let your location data be sold? Will you give the rest of us your location data?
"You simply find DuPont distasteful don't use plastics".

"If you simply find the treatment of warehouse workers distasteful don't buy anything online"

Just because someone or something's actions are within the letter of the law doesn't mean they are exempt from criticism.
Another day another ban-hammering from YouTube; so what.

It is their private platform and if you sign up you agreed to their T&Cs and they can choose to ban or remove whoever they want. Mistake or not, robot or not.

They will never change and it will only get worse.
Where can I find resources on tools that integrate with Clickhouse, ex. are there any tools for gathering server metrics and sending them to Clickhouse?
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I think you are confusing Youtube with a NGO. Google is a for profit company. Their mission is to make money, not to archive the internet.

They are not your friend. Nor anybody's friend.
A friend asked some questions I wasn't sure what my answers to were, and am curious what people here think:

What is the definition of a "troll"? What makes these pages different than any other large social media page, almost all of which are presumably run by people for eyeball-click-generating financial purposes, just like these?
A reasonable definition of effectiveness would be that it stops the virus from spreading through a population. Even in the case of Israel with the highest vaccination rate in the world, it has failed this test. I personally would say that it is effective because it has prevented a lot of deaths. But a reasonable person could disagree.
I wish OBS was around when I was making Minecraft YouTube videos when I was 11. Good times. I used some no name screen recorder and captured the region of my screen that was the Minecraft window. The quality is exactly what you'd expect.

I've used OBS to do a few programming streams during quarantine. It worked without fail on X11. That alone was impressive for a cross platform tool for me, let alone how easy and powerful it was.

I do kind of miss the nostalgia of those old days though...
Think of the children!

A more reasonable, good-faith understanding would also account for people who don't want to be tracked. I keep GPS and any location tracking on with all my devices because I don't want them to have any more data on me than I can avoid.
It seems to be obscure that QR codes have an "alphanumeric" character set that includes everything you need to make URLs IF you use only uppercase characters. This increases the data density considerably.

I make URLs that look like

https://gen5.info/$/XQ*42RXF-TLY:$B.8/

(That is the digital twin of an installation on the wall behind me as I type, each square is 8 by 8 inches; the barcodes on the back of the cards are NOT high density, three-sided cards from that generation that link to external sites link directly to low density URLs. New generation three-sided cards use "QRLs" that redirect to external links.)

which are "version 2" QR codes that are larger only than "version 1" QR codes which don't have the little alignment dot in the lower right and don't scan as well. The URL above uses M level error correction, with L level error correction I can make URLs that are a bit longer.

I manage either length of code much like a type 4 UUID and in the later case the space is large enough that I (you and 8 billion of my closest friends) could make every URL unique and be perfectly able to track people at the expense of keeping a database entry for every unique code.

My take is that the degree of compression doesn't matter much in my case because with high density QR codes you can print them large enough that barcode readers have no problem with them.

My experience is that the QR code reading experience on iPhones is night-and-day better than that on cheap Android devices. I think a lot of people are testing barcodes on iOS and have no idea that they scan poorly or not at all for other uses. For one thing, any camera has a minimum depth that it focuses at and if you print a QR code too small you have to hold the camera close to the code to read it and the camera can't focus. Another problem is that most QR code reading programs just don't read white-on-black codes even if the standard allows them. For that matter, many QR code readers require much higher contrast than the standard specifies, and even the standard is conservative compared to what is possible with a generously sized code.
> I almost feel like people are siding with the anti-vaxxers out of "principle".

You say that like it's a bad thing. If we don't stop the censorship now, it'll be too late to stop it in a year or two when we're the ones being censored for some reason.
revenue = supporting popular ideas, whether they make sense or not, to maintain optics and please investors

popular != true
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Gonna have a tough time leading by misleading, for whatever reason that may be
Right, and I actually read that. Maybe I should rephrase my question. I'd like to know why is a Packager necessary instead of virtually packaging and presenting an interface of a packaged file?

Then you'd be able to keep your encoded chunks as chunks instead of having to download them and then upload them again to MezzFs.
The moderation is the problem. Because it's fundamentally a cost center, and will never be resourced sufficiently to do a nuanced job.

Consequently, you get someone making minimum wage banning videos because they're not saying only positive things about vaccines.

And Google and Facebook won't care. Because moderation is a cost intended to curb the worst PR scandals, but content is profit.
> I've had dozens of vaccines in my life. The Covid vaccine might be the worst-performing vaccine of all time as far as effectiveness goes.

Funny thing about those other vaccines. They protect against viruses that we already have collective heard immunity for.

As it happens, it turns out that herd immunity substantial reduces community transmission, and thus makes vaccines appear more effective. Without that, you’re pretty much always gonna get breakthrough infections.

So you want the COVID vaccine to be as effective as other vaccines. Then get vaxxed, and get everyone in your community vaxxed.
"Youtube censors antivax content" is a true statement. It is not state censorship, but censorship nonetheless. Good thing / bad thing, for Youtube / for society at large, short term / long term, we can argue that. But let's get our facts & terminology straight.
That’s a slightly better description of what happened. And I will say it again: two wrongs don’t make a right.
They're saying that Python has gained a reputation for being the language for complex data analysis, but in fact it is objectively "unsuitable to large parts of the job".