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As much I condemn anti-vaxxers: “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
Does that matter? The issue isn't that they fired you, per se, it's that they misled you with an explicit promise of employment and caused you to quit a different job. It'd be one thing if they hired you, decided that you sucked on day one, and fired you--that would seem like an at-will employment case. But firing you before you even start seems different.
Relax. This isn't Germany in the 1930s.
Latinized without the "t", as the Germans do, is closer to the true pronunciation.
That's the exact use case for forums and bulletin board software, actually. Being able to leave messages asynchronously, but also aggregating the responses together so they're not disparate single emails.

NodeBB's a lighter and more performant alternative to Discourse.
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Very interesting tool, just downloaded and started it. I'm curious: You said that it simply accesses the browser history from the browser's SQLite databases. How come that this app can even do it without asking any permissions on macOS? I thought that apps on macOS are sandboxed in a way.
Why does Youtube being a platform means they have to post everything? Are the anti-vaccine video sites forced to post pro-vaccine videos?
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Off should mean off. Sleeping means that it can be woken up, woken up means that it microphones can be turned on and etc.
You can anyway stop publishing in journals that would put your paper behind a paywall. Failing that, require that the journal not put your paper behind a paywall (which you usually can do). Failing that, refuse to sign copyright over to the journal (which you can always do, whatever the journal hints at). And, anyway, post a copy to a free site like Arxiv under the same DOI.
European Christians are either catholic (Poland comes to mind), Orthodox (maybe Hingary, not sure. Russia definetly is) or Protestant (which have nothing whatsoever to do with US Evangelicals). That these groups have some overlap regarding abortion, LGBTQ rights, feminism or Islam doesn't change the fact they disagree on a lot of other things.
Good luck!

I used to say "My dream is to work for free." At the time, I earned my keep as a manager, and had to do all my coding as extracurricular open-source projects (I've been writing open source for over 20 years).

I am now living the dream. A few years ago, I was basically forced into early retirement, and it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

I manage to keep busy: https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall
It's folly to think destroying the environment won't impact this pie. Whether this is a "game" or not that the green movements have been playing, does not mean the article isn't true.

Besides, the pie size only matters on a per-capita basis, and most advanced economies have below-replacement fertility, meaning their economies can shrink without reducing living standards, even if they do nothing else differently. Barring population addition via immigration.
You can very well parallelise CPU-intensive problems. Look at e.g. "Embarassingly parallel" on Wikipedia.
Intuitively if you can divide your work into chunks that are large enough, the scheduling overhead becomes negligible.
Ive found the same. There is no silver bullet with offline-first. Its extremely product / architecture specific. But I do lean heavily on the side of offline-first being a _much_ better experience overall.
This opens up a can of worms.

Right now it’s “science”. What will be the next frontier they take on a their responsibility to curate?

Maybe they’ll come for diets?

Maybe they’ll come for social behavior (so called “challenges”)

Maybe they’ll come for political beliefs…

Who knows what they will take on as their responsibility to supervise for the greater good.

I think there is a big difference between quackery and skepticism. Skepticism in moderation is a healthy habit.
Anybody know of examples/precedent where an entity covered by Section 230 lost that protection?
I commented this previously, but simply owning-and-then-selling a house should not be a good investment. What you do with it is supposed to make it a good investment.

This idea that investing means squatting valuable assets needs to die.

Save on rent, farm, rent to others, make a shop... preventing others who would put the land to better use is doing more harm than good.
“ YouTube will ban any videos that claim that commonly used vaccines approved by health authorities are ineffective”

So speaking truth can get me banned from YouTube?

• Infections happen in only a small proportion of people who are fully vaccinated, even with the Delta variant. When these infections occur among vaccinated people, they tend to be mild.

• If you are fully vaccinated and become infected with the Delta variant, you can spread the virus to others.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vac....
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Many regulated industries have drug tests. I personally have been asked for drug tests in finance (capital market) and health care. I'm pretty sure defense contractors, as well as governments and some government-adjacent jobs might require it.

Also, my understanding of the drug test I took isn't about cannabis, but more on the hard drugs.
100%. Political debates are just a handful of people saying out loud the very well known stances they take on things. They serve no purpose, other than to allow people to feel like their team is winning.
Certainly not the people who can’t read a scientific publication.
Time for repeat showing of the free speech debate we’ve already had a dozen times, whoopee!

As ever, IMO, the problem isn’t the hosting or the banning, it’s the algorithms. I don’t care whether YouTube hosts anti-vaccine activists, I care that they actively promote anti-vaccine content to users simply because it’s proven to get clicks and earn them money. Bans like this look incredibly stupid when you realise YouTube itself is responsible for this disinformation getting so much traction.
If it is, then possibly Brittain has developed anti bodies now, and the African missions will be less successful.
Shame on google!!!
Techno-fascism rears its ugly head once more. These mRNA shots aren't flawless medications with zero side effects. People are getting strokes. People are getting heart inflammation. It's not even working against new variants. The emperor really doesn't have clothes. 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. You need 3 booster shots apparently in less than 9 months and you'll probably still get Covid. But meanwhile lets throw out all human rights that hundreds of millions died for and many more suffered for.

The reason freedom of speech is a must in a free society is that speaking is the same as thinking. Who watches the watchmen? There is no amount of "misinformation" that could ever hold a candle to the absolute evil that has been perpetrated throughout history by outlawing or banning or shunning free speech.
What bridge? There's no bridge if you're blacklisted.
It has nothing to do with section 230. The idea that section 230 prescribes different treatment of publishers is an oddly persistent myth.
An effective market monopoly discriminates its customers by refusing some of them? That calls for a text-book anti-monopoly action.
In addition to what others have said:

* Porn is almost always posted in violation of copyright.

* Hosting porn opens you up to legal issues if you can't verify that everyone involved is adult and consenting.

* Payment processors, hosting companies and other service providers you rely on usually have strict policies excluding porn.

And that's just addressing legal pornography, not other "NSFW" content like child abuse, animal abuse, general violence or gore. If you run a large enough public user generated content service people will use it to distribute illegal content or flood it with jihadist execution videos to ruin someone's day.
>If p=0.05 is sufficient confidence to publish, one in twenty published findings will be wrong

This is a wrong understanding of p values. Imagine an urn with only fair 50/50 coins and taking out coins to test them. If you reject the coin being fair at 0.05<p then you will on average have 1/20 statistically significant results. All of your statistically significant results will be wrong.

Now imagine an urn that only has biased coins.
Every time you reject the null hypothesis you are correct.

How many statistically significant results are actually true
depend on the metaphorical urn that people draw hypothesis out of.
If someone is very good at picking likely hypothesis to pan out their statistically significant results are more likely to be true.

Also if a field of study has many bad paths you could go down on then you would expect more statistically significant results to be actually wrong.
Only 12 months too late…..
It is censorship and it’s also discrimination
I see many comments about resolution, which I guess is fair. But there are high-resolution headsets available on the market right now: Varjo VR-3 afaik is the top dog currently https://varjo.com/products/vr-3/ and Pimax also has some high res models. So don't dismiss the idea too hastily based on experiences of old and/or cheap HW.
>But also: Bake The Cake.
My company's logo is a small black square.
Dissenting opinions that objectively and literally get people killed.

Allowing this garbage to be spread has been massively, incredibly negligent and reckless, and has caused many, many avoidable deaths.
You’re both correct, but Apple is optimizing for the majority with their ‘Find My’ network, where the majority don’t have a threat model which includes exploitation of a target by a nation state actor.

It’s a toggle in Settings to turn off this functionality for those who want the surface area reduction, or an RF shielded bag if you don’t trust the toggle ;)
For those who find GIL impacts their developments, can you post some examples? I'm curious as to what they are.
Have there ever been peaceful communists who ran a country?

Add that to the tankies I've met personally and their beliefs, and yeah, communism sucks.
YouTube can take the videos down, I don't think many people are arguing against that. The issue is that it is a bad idea to. This is one of many rather urgent signals to people who don't agree with Google that they should be setting up or looking for alternatives, and rather urgently.
99% of use cases are for things that dont need a GUI but most devs run on auto pilot.
Alternative or additional causality: kids with eyeglasses have fewer friends and more time to focus on homework
Not in the USA. [0] The Supreme Court, in Pruneyard v Robbins, expressly rejected the claim "that a private property owner has a First Amendment right not to be forced by the State to use his property as a forum for the speech of others." Turner v. FCC and Rumsfeld v. FAIR rejected similar claims.

[0] https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/09/the-first-amendment-and...
I feel like this always gets brought up, as if the slippery slope is a natural inevitability. What if it isn’t? What if you can ban actively harmful content without that ban spreading?
Admitting change to the algo inherently admits fault, so good luck waiting for that. Counsel will never allow it.
It's the top scientists in the world vs Sheryl from South Carolina. The research and testing these professionals do will be good for fact checking.
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In tandem with not recognizing natural immunity, it's not really about science is it?
Would there be legal issues with that? An AI can't be sued as far as I can tell, and I don't know how we'd legally manage the requirement that a lawyer pass the bar.

Jury trust will also be a huge issue, as I think a lot of people will have trouble believing an AI lawyer.

AI could absolutely automate some parts of the job, however. Streamlining research and writing drafts of legal briefs seems very feasible (or already possible in some cases).
YouTube is a company. Freedom of speech only applies to individuals and communities of individuals.

EDIT:

elliekelly, I can't answer because I am being rate limited and can't write new comments on HN.

You have surprised me, but it is sadly true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
It's a continuum though. Platforms and service providers can and do limit who can use their infrastructure, or how it is used. It's not as black and white as people like to make it.
YouYube is a publisher, but it's not a publication. A newspaper hires employees that are paid by the company to produce a publication, YouTube is a platform that allows individuals to publish arbitrary video content, there is a very obvious difference between the two, playing on "publisher" semantics to imply that they should be held liable for uploads by random people makes no sense.
Oh I _wish_ more debates had people waving around arxiv pre-prints like that, it would be a huge step up. Most people debating on the internet aren’t using scientific sources at all.

Sure, there’s been a lot of back-and-forth in the scientific community about the best way to prevent spread and so on. But most real world covid debates aren’t “we agree cloth/surgical masks are cheap and _might_ prevent spread, so it’s worth giving them a shot, but should we really be pushing people towards N-95s? These two preprints on the topic disagree!” They more often center on easily disprovable things like “will wearing a surgical mask (which surgeons wear for hours a day while performing _surgery_) cause me to suffocate from loss of oxygen? Everything has pros and cons you know!”
They are both and the distinction is mostly meaningless.
Apple is very clear that this is how things work now. They even give you a dialog prompt now to inform you of this change the first time you try to shut your device off - https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/07/ios-15-find-my-network-can-fi...

I'm not sure why this is presented as some new thing, or a gotcha or whatever this is. We've known about it for months... And IMO, it's a positive change although it does sound a little weird.
Here's something tangentially related: how much information would you disclose about other companies you're interviewing with?

Personally having just gone through a job search, I wanted to be transparent and when asked did tell companies that I was interviewing with a number of places- ok, totally reasonable. Then as things played out, I made it through the process with one company, while the rest said no after some misadventures in maximum binary tree depth.

The one company that liked me, in good faith, asked about the interviews with other companies, so I just said "You're my top choice currently" not wanting to give some negative signal that I couldn't cut it with the others, but also not wanting to seem like I was just playing hardball.
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Why would 19 of the top 20 Christian pages be run by Americans who specifically only connect to VPNs in Kosovo and Macedonia when they manage their pages? I think at some point common sense comes into play here.
Aren't top scientists in Wuhan the ones who probably got us into this mess?
Someone want to throw out there a better way to combat disinformation than just armchair criticizing their decision? I almost feel like people are siding with the anti-vaxxers out of "principle".

Just a no win situation. It's too easy for bad characters to screw up an entire system with little effort (look at trolls, spammers, etc). Either you moderate everyone and slippery slope down into censorship where the tools used to police are used on good actors, or you do nothing and watch the bad actors poison your entire ecosystem.
Ripcord is nice and fast, but good GOD the UX is atrocious.
The problem is that questions about the vaccine are being labeled as anti-vaccine. Real data about the side effects of the vaccine constitutes science not anti-vax propaganda. It is distressing that supporters of informed consent are being lumped in with QAnon.
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I did not move, but was let go at the end of my probationary period without prior notice.
It was the time of the first corona shutdown and they could not really onboard me properly (at least from my perspective), so my performance suffered.

The point I want to make here is, that no one on the team had the balls to tell me that they are unhappy with my performance and instead told my boss very late. I did not have a chance to improve or change anything.
It can happen to anyone and any time.

In hindsight this is still the best thing that could have happened to me.
I'm normally against this kind of thing, but then I read the comments, even here on HN, and kind of see it as the lesser evil.
Let me reframe: let’s say that YouTube hosts anti-vax content and as a result some percentage of people are swayed by this content to not vaccinate themselves or their children. Some percentage of them dies. Let’s say in absolute numbers it is 10,000 people. Do you think that YouTube did a good thing by allowing that content?
Pretty sure these two statements alone won't get you banned.
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§230 says that YouTube is not liable for any content that users post to its site, regardless of how much moderation of that content YouTube does or doesn't do.

Everything after the comma in that sentence is actually the entire point of why §230 was passed; prior case law held that YouTube would be liable for all content if it did the barest amount of moderation.
Terrifying - was not aware of that.

In this case I think what happened is the nest more or less was incinerated from the heat of the engine. Hopefully that would have killed anything that would have been aerosolized.
Following the report, some have.

But why be surprised? They grow a lot of greens out of such content. Why kill the golden cow unless you need to (because forced to)?
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This is not about "disagreeing with what you say". This is about people literally dying. Not just the people spreading the information either, innocent bystanders that get killed by the disease.
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The old saying, give them an inch and they’ll take a mile seems to hold true if allowed.
People don't see what the actual problem here is - perhaps because they don't want to see. What is happening is very much the transformation from an open society to one where freedom of speech is limited and certain other individual rights are stripped away. Perhaps not de jure, but de facto.

And sure, one might argue that it's for a good cause (even though it's a complex topic). However, the fact is that as this is done once, it becomes something that can be leveraged as the norm. There is a very real danger here, and nobody knows whether it will realize or not.

The question is not whether you can post anti-vax content today. It's whether you can post anti-anything tomorrow.
> you'd stop having so many kids and would lower your population density, on the path to which most European countries are already on

You make it sound like you believe this is a good thing while people who are actually experiencing population decline are not having a good time.

Whether it's countries like Japan and Russia desperately trying to encourage births, China lifting its one-child policy, villages in Italy paying people to move there, desolate post-industrial towns in the US rotting, etc - everything points to population decline as a strictly terrible thing.

Like you, I was also born in Latvia. In 1980s, the country had 2.6 million people. Today, something like 1.9 million - 27% decline in 40 years. You may celebrate this from the CO2 point of view but I think the more obvious interpretation of these numbers is "Latvia is dying." It saddens me to see this. I am not sure whether the land will just be empty or it will be populated by people from cultures who have not reduced their children (history suggests the latter) but - are you sure this is what you want?

Also, taken to the extreme, your logic suggests not just reducing kids, but mass suicide/homicide. After all, if we care about CO2 above all else, why wait a generation for the number of "emitters" to decline, when we can just solve the problem today?

None of this is to say that reducing emissions isn't important and there are a ton of great ways to do that (new energy sources, reduced commuting through better and better communication tools) coming on-line that I am really excited about. But destroying future generations to move this metric doesn't seem right to me.
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom to lie and hurt public health efforts.
From experience, I can tell you that you aren't focused on a single point, and in fact your eyes will change focus to look at objects in the distance just like in real life. In my virtual office set up, when I want to relax my eyes, I can look over my right shoulder and look at the office wall, or out the window, and my focus shifts. You can also make your screens as big as you want and as far away as you want, there are a lot of options to keep your eyes from looking at a single focal length for extended periods of time. My YouTube screen is also pushed back a bit from my normal monitor so I can shift focus for a few minutes every hour or so.
> access to token information

This is perhaps the core difference between VS Code and Emacs (which a lot of people believe is being superseded by VS Code as the "extensible editor") - in Emacs, there is no such thing as limiting access to information. Outside of things that get hidden accidentally[0], any bit of elisp code can access everything.

It's not just a practical difference, but also a philosophical one: Emacs plugins are not designed to expose a narrow API, because it's impossible to enforce anyway. There's a structure to it, so nothing prevents one from creating good abstractions - those abstractions just have to be designed with extensibility and interoperability in mind[1], because the users (including other package developers) always have an option to just hook into, advise, override or replace any piece of code in your package.

Performance-wise, the impact of it varies. On the one hand, this level of flexibility prevents Emacs from making important breaking changes[2]. On the other hand, nothing ever has to wait for a better API design - if there's a way to make a feature faster by hooking to a dependency's internal, people will do just that, and keep doing that until the API blesses the use case.

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[0] - Like state the C core doesn't expose, or some implicit state shared by a bunch of closures - though you can get at the latter if you override whatever is hiding the state.

[1] - E.g. by offering hooks as a blessed, well-defined and stable way to interact with internals to cover 90% of interoperability needs.

[2] - Like doing proper multithreading, or replacing Emacs Lisp with a more polished Lisp - though myself I feel ELisp is good enough as a language.
They still have every right to say what they want. YouTube also has the right not to aid them.

This is the information version of "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."
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